Robot Makers 2014 - Robot Makers: The future of digital rapid design and fabrication of robots

A future enriched by personal on-demand programmable robots will require multi-disciplinary advancements across a range of research areas. New algorithms and programming languages will be necessary to define, evaluate, and optimize behavioral specifications and designs. New paradigms and tools will be needed for on-demand design generation. And new fabrication methods will be needed to realize custom electromechanical devices. Within this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers pushing forward the state of the art in these and related fields. Through talks and discussions, this workshop will seek to identify key issues facing the realization of custom cyber-physical systems; by gathering like-minded researchers together, we can address these issues and begin to develop a roadmap for upcoming research. This interactive, multi-prong, cross-disciplinary workshop will define and advance the future of robot making. Any papers that discuss challenges in developing and programming robots are welcomed. In particular, we invite submissions that are centered on the following topics:
Rapid Fabrication for Robotics;
Personalized Robotics;
Programming Languages for Robotics;
Hardware/software Codesign;
Design Databases;
2D and 3D Printing;
Robotics in Education and;
Robotics in Art.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Prof. Vijay Kumar, UPenn
Prof. Nikolaus Correll, CU Boulder
Prof. Josh Bongard, UVM
Prof. Mark Yim, UPenn
Prof. Oleg Sokolsky, UPenn
Prof. Rob Shepherd, Cornell