We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Maša Jazbec, head of DDTlab, together with creative robotics programmer Žan Rajšek, will present Creative Robotics projects at the international symposium Slovenia Promoting a Smart Society 5.0 through AI and Robotics, organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Tokyo, which will take place online on Thursday, 11 November 2021.

The RUK Network and DDTlab will be amongst the distinguished guests such as the Minister for Digital Transformation Mark Boris Andrijanič, the Minister of Digital Policy Karen Makishima, the Japan Digital Agency, Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro, Professor Emeritus at Intelligent Robotics, Osaka University, Prof. Dr. John Shawe-Taylor, Director of the International Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO (IRCAI) ...

Symposia summary:
»Slovenia has put forward many advanced solutions, using artificial intelligence and robotics, for the implementation and creation of a smart society 5.0. We would like to introduce some examples of close collaboration with Japan in the fields of art, industry and in policies in general. Japanese technology group Yaskawa has officially opened its new robot production facility with European robotics development center in Slovenia in 2019. Slovenian artist Maša Jazbec from DDTLab carried out scientific and artistic experiments of interpersonal interactions together with the Laboratory of Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (HIL), and is now collaborating with Yaskawa on projects of creative robotics. Hitachi is collaborating in the implementation of a smart city, creating smart electricity grids in a few Slovenian cities (Idrija, BTC City). University Rehabilitation Center Soča from Slovenia is cooperating with Toyota and the University Fujita in the field of rehabilitation robotics. UNESCO International Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI), established in 2020 in Slovenia, maximizes the benefits of AI to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and expedites a multi-stakeholder mechanism to put AI under the litmus test of ethnical, legal, openness and privacy challenges. IRCAI is seeking partnership with international organizations, governments, companies, NGOs, universities, research institutes, AI consortia and government agencies around the world.«