Innovation Booster – Silver Aging & Robotics

 Date: 8th of May 2025

 Location:  Chem. des Mines 9, 1202 Genève, Campus Biotech, Room B1 06

*The seminars will be held in French.

Registration: link

Innovation Booster Robotics, in collaboration with Innovation Booster Silver Ageing, is organizing an Ideate & Enrich workshop on assistive robotics for the elderly population. The event will take place on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at Biotech Campus in Geneva. This interactive session will bring together experts and researchers to explore key challenges and innovative solutions in the field of assistive robotics.

Overview
Technology for everyone. When humans guide innovation. On the agenda: experience sharing, demonstrations, collective reflection, and co-creation of concrete solutions focused on robotics in the service of aging and autonomy.

Agenda

• 09:30 – 10:00 Welcome & Introduction to the Innovation Boosters
• 10:00 – 11:00 Session 1: Assistive Robotics – For Institutions
  • Dr. Emmanuel Senft | Research Scientist and Leader of the Human-Centered Robotics and AI Group at IDIAP Research Institute
  • Prof. Yulia Sandamirskaya | Professor and Head of a Research Centre Cognitive Computing in Life Sciences at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
  • Luigi Corrado, Director of residences at Résidences Prendre Soin et Accompagner(RPSA)
  • Laëtitia Gosetto | Research Scientist and Leader of the EvaLab at Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG)

• 11:00 – 12:00 Session 2: Assistive Robotics – For Individuals
  • Prof. Andres Perez Uribe | Professor of Applied Sciences, Head of the Competence Group Intelligent Data Analysis, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and Dr. Yasaman Izadmehr | Collaborator Ra&D at HEIG-VD
  • Dr. Luca Randazzo | CEO Emovo (robotic hand exoskeleton)
  • Lixuan Tang | Ph.D. Candidate, Distributed and assistive robotics, BioRobotics Laboratory EPFL
• 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch and Exhibition
• 13:30 – 15:00 Seminar: Key Challenges
• 15:00 – 16:00 Seminar: Idea Generation
• 16:00 – 16:30 Summary & Conclusions
• 16:30 – 17:00 Networking Apéro

Registration
If you are interested in participating, please register as soon as possible using the following link:

 Register Here

Should you have any questions, feel free to reach out. We look forward to an engaging and productive day!