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ABSTRACT Recently one professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST has succeeded in developing a Humanoid Robot named HUBO (a Korean version of ASIMO-Honda). This humanoid robot is an outcome of a series of former prototypes and this work could be done by support of a KAIST research center named the Human-friendly Welfare Robot System Engineering Research Center (HWRS-ERC) and some seed money from KAIST and the Ministry of Education. We briefly introduce the history of development of the humanoid robot and the role of the HWRS-ERC. By the success of HUBO, eventually, the Humanoid Robot Research Center has been established in August 5th 2005 by support of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy. This presentation focuses on the activities of five research centers on robotics in KAIST. The Human-friendly Welfare Robot System Engineering Research Center (HWRS-ERC) is one of the Engineering Research Centers (Center of Excellence Program) recognized and supported by KOSEF (Korean Science and Engineering Foundation Korean NSF). The research projects of HWRS-ERC are mainly for an intelligent sweet home, medical robots, and assistant robots in the work place, for the welfare of the elderly, the patients and the disabled, respectively. We also present research activities of the Intelligent Robot Research Center (IRRC) supported by the Ministry of Information, Communication and the newly-established Humanoid Robot Research Center. The other two centers are the Human-Robot Interaction Research Center and the Micro-Robot Design Education Center. SPEAKER BIO Dong-Jo Park received B.S. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea in 1976 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A. in 1981 and 1984, respectively. He was a senior researcher of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea from 1984 to 1985. He is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea. His research interests include computer vision, image processing, adaptive learning systems, wireless communication networks, robot interface and control. He is a member of IEEE, IEICE, KIEE, KICS and KISS. Prof, Dong-Jo Park |
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