IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO) will take place in Genova, Italy, during 27-29 of September 2018.

ARSO is a single track workshop.

It series started in Nagoya in year 2005, and traveled through Beijing (2006), Hsinchu (2007), Taipei (2008), Tokyo (2009), Seoul (2010), Half Moon Bay, CA (2011), Munich (2012), Tokyo (2013),Evanston (2014), Lyon(2015), Shanghai (2016) and Austin (2017).

The aim of the Workshop is to discuss advanced robotics R&D and its implications to economic and social systems, ARSO 2018 will focus in particular on the impact of AI and AI empowered autonomous systems.

Participants will be world class robotic research scientists, investors and economists, as well as representatives of industry and government.

ARSO’s topics range from traditional Robotics technologies, innovation, socio-economic aspects, but also psychological and philosophical aspects of Human Robot Interaction.