Tech Talk - Living with Smart Robots: Fact/Fiction
ActivityWinter 2018|#5692
15 yrs +, Mixed
Technology
Description
In this session we will explore questions like:
Can new technologies really help with the problems of aging?
What would it be like to live with a smart robot?
Can robots provide companionship?
What are the possibilities for intergenerational cooperation around and through technology?
About Dr. Waldron
Dr. Manjula Bhushan Waldron is widely published in engineering design research, deafness, and sensory integration and is active as a Consulting Professor at Stanford, focusing on living long well. She is also a Stanford alumna (Master's 1968 and PhD 1971 in Electrical Engineering); has been an engineering and biomedical professor; a researcher, author; more recently, a novelist.
In her current work at Stanford as Consulting Professor in the Stanford Prevention Research Center, she focuses on longevity and advanced mind-body medicine and is a well-being holistic coach for healthy aging. She has taught "Resilient aging for achieving longevity," as well as science and spirituality courses for Stanford Continuing Studies. She has also taught "design for diversity" in Stanford's Mechanical Engineering Design Center.
Activity meeting dates
Feb 9, 2018
Fri11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
More Information
SupervisorEric Gee
Number of sessions1
Registration dates
MembersFrom Dec 4, 2017
Resident non-membersFrom Dec 4, 2017
Non-resident non-membersFrom Dec 4, 2017
Free
Retired
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