Antonio Bicchi (University of Pisa), “What is it like to be a bot?”

Abstract

The impressive evolution that artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and robotics have recently undergone reached a point where it is now possible to fuse these technologies and create another body for the self. This possibility poses new questions at the core of embodied intelligence. In this talk I will examine a few of the technical, scientific, and philosophical issues related to using robots as avatars and “being a bot.”