EDI INSPIRING
- S. Marcellino and Festo Church | University of Naples Federico II
- October, 26 | 09:30 - 10:30
Introduction
Tracy Roberts-Pounds, USA Consul General in Naples, Italy
Museum as Platform
Jeffrey Schnapp, Director, MetaLab at Harvard University
Behind the phrase "museum as platform" stands a commitment to highlight the role of museums as institutions built around connections rather than collections. However central are collections to their missions of stewardship, conservation, and the construction of cultural memory, museums are places where those collections require a constant process of revitalization in the present, both onsite and online. Integral to this process is the need to serve as platforms for research, training, experimentation, and programming that, rather than providing entertainment or answers, poses questions, opens up problems, and exposes critical horizons.
Robots and Humans
Bruno Siciliano, Professor of Control and Robotics, University of NaplesFederico II
We are living a technology revolution in which robotics is destined to play a driving role for a new generation of autonomous devices that will be able to actively collaborate with humans and interact with the environment. The new field of InterAction Technology (IAT) is found at the intersection of robotics with artificial intelligence (AI) as the natural evolution of Information Technology (IT), laying the foundations for a real symbiosis between humans and robots. In such human‒robot interaction context, the crucial theme of roboethics addresses the growing autonomy of robots in harmony with the moral duties and the assumption of responsibility by human beings. In a future scenario in which humans and machines are called to coexist, the socialization process of robotics will conform to an anthropocentric approach, for the benefit of the community, towards a technological humanism that can help us reaffirm the least artificial feature of our world: our humanity.
Final speech
Roberto Vittori, European Space Agency
