From Tool to Threat? Generative AI and the Future of Robotic Research
SPEAKERS
Elena De Momi, Full professor at Politecnico di Milano
Title of the presentation: “Gen AI in the medical robotics domain”
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Elena received her MSc in Biomedical Engineering in 2002, PhD in Bioengineering in 2006, and she is currently Full Professor in the Electronic Information and Bioengineering Department (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. She is co-founder of the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory, in 2008, being responsible of the Medical Robotics section. IEEE Senior Member, she is currently Senior Editor of the Int. Journal of Robotics Research, Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Robotics and Automation Letters and of the IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering. She has been Publication Chair and Co-Chair for IEEE ICRA 2019, 2023 and 2024 and is Program Chair of IROS 2025. She is responsible for the lab course in Medical Robotics, of the courses on Clinical Technology Assessment and Smart Hospital of the MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and of the course in Healthcare Robotics and Active Ageing at MEDTEC (Humanitas University) and she serves in the board committee of the PhD course in Bioengineering and of the National PhD in Robotics and Intelligent Machines.
Rachid Alami, Senior Scientist at LAAS-CNRS
Title of the presentation: “Toward AI-enabled HRI: Human and robot are not equal”
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Dr. Rachid Alami is Senior Scientist at LAAS-CNRS. He received an engineer diploma in computer science in 1978 from ENSEEIHT, a Ph.D in Robotics in 1983 from Institut National Polytechnique and an Habilitation HDR in 1996 from Paul Sabatier University. He contributed and took responsibilities in several national, European and international research and/or collaborative projects (ESPRIT: MARTHA, PROMotion, IST FP6 projects: COGNIRON, URUS, PHRIENDS, and FP7 projects: CHRIS, SAPHARI, ARCAS, SPENCER, H2020: MuMMER, France: VAP-RISP for planetary rovers, several ANR projects). He is holding since 2019 the Academic Chair on Cognitive and Interactive Robotics at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI) His main research contributions fall in the fields of Robot Decisional and Control Architectures, Task and motion planning, multi-robot cooperation, and human-robot interaction.
