PRG Seminar Series

on

Robotics and Computer Vision

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A Talk on

Robot pain is a key component for the artificial conscious mind
(empathy and new ethics)

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Time: 4:00 PM

Room IRB 4105

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	Minoru Asada Professor of Adaptive Machine Systems Graduate School of Engineering Osaka University, Japan

ABSTRACT

In my talk, I discuss how pain sensation could be essential for conscious mind for humans and robots according to the following working hypotheses. (1) Embedding touch/pain nervous system into robots. (2) Can robots use this to understand touch/pain in others (Mirror Neuron System)? (3) Can empathy and proto-morality emerge? (4) Could robots be agents who could be moral being, and subjects to moral consideration.? (5) Legal system for robots and AI will be considered. (The number indicates the order of my confidence.)

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Minoru Asada, the vice president of International Professional University of Technology (IPUT) in Osaka, JAPAN (2021~), a specially-Appointed Professor of Osaka Univ. (2019~), a visiting professor of Chubu University Academy of Emerging Sciences (2022~), A principal investigator of Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) (2017~). He is a former president of Robotics Society of Japan (2019-2021), and the vice President of Japanese Society of Baby Science (2019~), and one of the founders of RoboCup (1997~).