What is man machine coexistence?

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disaster management (Tsunami),

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and rehabilitation: This includes disaster management techniques

especially applied to rescue operations in Tsunami, landslides,

earthquakes & floods, robots & sensors in landmine

detection & removal, navigation of mobile robots in rugged

terrain, robot manipulators and control, prosthetic devices,

tele-operation & remote manipulation, robotics in physiotherapy

etc.

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be held to discuss the future needs and research trends.

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Automation and modern civilization: This will try to discuss the

latest developments in industrial automation. A panel discussion

will be held to review the benefits of automation for developing

countries and what we can learn from already industrialized

countries.

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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;">3. A wired society and

Tele-presence: A discussion on novel concepts in Virtual Reality,

kansei systems, and tele-presence in the context of a networked

system. It is expected to cover novel results as to how these

technologies have evolutionized distributed production and

marketing, education, medicine and surgery, space travel, defense

etc. A panel discussion will address issues such as how developing

countries could benefit from these technologies in the areas:

reaching global markets through e-commerce systems, telemedicine,

remote education, egovernment etc.

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"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;">4. Intelligent robots

and man-machine co-existence: This will cover new developments in

intelligent robots, their hardware, learning algorithms, sensory

systems, and actuators. A panel discussion will clarify how these

developments have helped to bring about positive transformations in

the human society, future challenges in man-machine cooperation and

coexistence, and opportunities for developing countries.

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