Programme

09:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome

Martin Fischer & Yuefang Zhou, University of Potsdam, Germany

10:15 – 11:00 Addressing the Objections to Robot Sex

John Danaher, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

11:00 – 11:45 Social Robots, Autonomous Vehicles and the Internet Of Things:

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Aspects

Giuseppe Lugano, Peter Holečko & Martin Hudák

University of Žilina, Slovakia

11:45 – 12:00 Coffee

12:00 – 12:45 Technological Transformations of Intimacy in Japan and their Implications

for Emotional AI Research

Elena Giannoulis & Daniel White, Free University Berlin, Germany

12:45 – 13:00 General Discussion

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:15 – 15:15 Our sexual future with robots

Noel Sharkey, University of Sheffield, UK

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee

15:45 – 16:30 Current strategies for the prevention of child sexual abuse and the potential

role of robots

Klaus Beier & Alfred Pauls, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

16:30 – 17:15 Open discussion

17:15 – 17:30 Closure (book & funding proposal)

19:00 – 21:00 Dinner

Keynote Speakers