<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear All</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">* Apologies for cross posting*</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal">The<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal"><b>Center for Robotics and Neural Systems</b></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal"> (CRNS) is pleased to announce the talk of </font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal">Dr. Rachid Alami</b><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal"> who is a research director and team leader at the </font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal"><b>National Center for Scientific Research</b></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal"> (CNRS), France</font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal"> on Wednesday, February 9<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">^th </span></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal">from </font><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><b style="color:inherit">11:00 am</b><span style="color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="color:inherit">to</span><span style="color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><b style="color:inherit">12:30</b><span style="color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><b style="color:inherit">pm</b><span style="color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="color:inherit">(</span><b><font color="#ff0000">London time</font></b><span style="color:inherit">)</span><font style="color:inherit;font-weight:bold"> </font></span><span style="color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#333333">over </font><b><font color="black">Zoom</font></b></span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#333333">.</font></span><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">>> <b>Events</b>: The CRNS talk series will cover a wide range of topics including social and cognitive robotics, computational neuroscience, computational linguistics, cognitive vision, machine learning and AI, and applications to autism. More details are available here:</div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <a href="https://www.plymo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t;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This talk will address some key decisional issues that are necessary for a cognitive and interactive robot which shares space and tasks with humans. We adopt a constructive approach based on the identification and the effective implementation of individual and collaborative skills. The system is comprehensive since it aims at dealing with a complete set of abilities articulated so that the robot controller is effectively able to conduct in a flexible and fluent manner a human-robot joint action seen as a collaborative problem solving and task achievement. These abilities include geometric reasoning and situation assessment based essentially on perspective-taking and affordances, management and exploitation of each agent (human and robot) knowledge in a separate cognitive model, human-aware task planning and interleaved execution of shared plans. We will also discuss the key issues linked to the pertinence and the acceptability by the human of the robot behaviour, and how this influence qualitatively the robot decisional, planning, control and communication processes.</span></span></span><br></span></span></div><br><br><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">>> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, </div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Regards</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px"></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">----------------</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Dr. Amir Aly</font></span></b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Lecturer in <span style="margin:0px">Artificial Intelligence and </span><span style="margin:0px">Robotics</span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">School of Engineering, Computing, and Mathematics </span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Room B332, Portland Square, Drake Circus, <span style="margin:0px">PL4 8AA</span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">University of Plymouth, UK</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>