{"id":277,"date":"2016-10-04T10:09:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clawar.org\/clawar2017\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:36:15","slug":"technical-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clawar.org\/icres2026\/technical-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clawar.org\/icres2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ICRES_2026_Program-Booklet-Draft_v13-FINAL-VERSION.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/clawar.org\/icres2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ICRES_2026_Program-Booklet.pdf\">ICRES 2026 Program Booklet PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<style>\n.icres-prog { font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.55; max-width: 1000px; margin: 0 auto 2em auto; padding: 0 1em; }\n.icres-prog * { box-sizing: border-box; }\n.icres-prog h3 {\n  margin: 1.8em 0 0.6em 0; padding-bottom: 0.3em;\n  border-bottom: 2px solid #1a5fa8; color: #1a5fa8;\n  font-size: 1.25em;\n}\n.icres-prog h3:first-of-type { margin-top: 0; }\n.icres-prog h4 {\n  margin: 1.6em 0 0.6em 0; color: #1a5fa8; font-size: 1.05em;\n}\n.icres-item {\n  padding: 0.7em 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e2e2e2;\n}\n.icres-time {\n  display: block; font-weight: 700; color: #444;\n  font-size: 0.9em; letter-spacing: 0.02em; margin-bottom: 0.2em;\n}\n.icres-title { display: block; font-weight: 600; }\n.icres-authors {\n  display: block; color: #555; font-size: 0.92em; margin-top: 0.15em;\n}\n.icres-break {\n  padding: 0.7em 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e2e2e2;\n  color: #555; font-style: italic;\n}\n.icres-break .icres-time { font-style: normal; }\n.icres-room { color: #666; font-size: 0.88em; font-weight: 400; display: block; }\n.icres-note {\n  font-size: 0.9em; color: #666; margin-top: 1.5em;\n  padding-top: 0.8em; border-top: 1px solid #e2e2e2;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"icres-prog\">\n\n  <h3>Day 1: Thursday 17 September 2026<\/h3>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">08:00 &ndash; 09:00<\/span>\n    Registration (Vincent Building main entrance)\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">09:00 &ndash; 09:20<\/span>\n    Opening of ICRES 2026\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">09:20 &ndash; 10:20 &nbsp;|&nbsp; Plenary Presentation 1 (Vincent auditorium) &nbsp;|&nbsp; Chair: Sarah Fletcher<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Building an ethical future: How robotics and AI are transforming work, health, and sustainability<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Prof. Samia Nefti-Meziani, University of Birmingham<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">10:20 &ndash; 10:40<\/span>\n    Coffee Break (Vincent atrium)\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h4>Session 1: Robotics Standards and Ethics Regulation\n    <span class=\"icres-room\">10:40 &ndash; 12:00 &middot; Vincent auditorium &middot; Chair: Osman Tokhi<\/span><\/h4>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">10:40 &ndash; 11:00<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Robotic Standards and Standardisation at BSI<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Takiyah Williams (BSI)<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">11:00 &ndash; 11:20<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">A Standards-Oriented Gap Analysis for Hybrid Human-Robot Skill Orchestration<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Laura Moya-Ruiz, Francisco Fraile, Sarah Fletcher and Raul Poler<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">11:20 &ndash; 11:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Partner, Playmate, Persecutor: Safeguarding Against Coercive Evolution of Assistive Robots<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Catherine Menon, Jeni Mitchell, S&iacute;lvia Moros and Gabriella Lakatos<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">11:40 &ndash; 12:00<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Toward a Normative Ethical Framework for Embedding Public Values in Autonomous AI and Robotic Systems<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Hyoungbin Park<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">12:00 &ndash; 13:00<\/span>\n    Lunch (Vincent atrium)\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">13:00 &ndash; 14:00 &nbsp;|&nbsp; Plenary Presentation 2 (Vincent auditorium) &nbsp;|&nbsp; Chair: Iveta Eimontaite<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Making the invisible visible: Building AI governance that actually works<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Maria Axente, Responsible Intelligence<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h4>Session 2: Human-Centred AI Communication\n    <span class=\"icres-room\">14:00 &ndash; 15:00 &middot; Vincent auditorium &middot; Chair: Christopher Burns<\/span><\/h4>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">14:00 &ndash; 14:20<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Language Mirrors Scientific and Technological Evolution: Terminological Innovation, Conceptual Drift, and Ontological Transformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Isabel Ferreira<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">14:20 &ndash; 14:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Worker-Centric Automation for Remanufacturing: the Campetella Robotic Pilot<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Gabriele Marchello<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">14:40 &ndash; 15:00<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Governing Escalation in Reflexive Human&ndash;AI Dialogue: A Layered Framework for Boundary-Respecting Interaction<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Yiping Bai<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">15:00 &ndash; 15:20<\/span>\n    Coffee Break (Vincent atrium)\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">15:20 &ndash; 16:20 &nbsp;|&nbsp; Plenary Presentation 3 (Vincent auditorium) &nbsp;|&nbsp; Chair: Gilbert Tang<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">From prompt engineering to prompt programming for providing automation in LLM-based systems<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Prof. Mark Levene, Birkbeck College, University of London<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h4>Session 3: Trust, Emotion and Ethical Human-Robot Design\n    <span class=\"icres-room\">16:20 &ndash; 18:00 &middot; Vincent auditorium &middot; Chair: Gilbert Tang<\/span><\/h4>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">16:20 &ndash; 16:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Towards a Context-Adaptive Trust Scale for Industrial Human-Robot Collaboration: Development and Initial Content Validation<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Jingyi Zhang, Christopher Burns, Pratyush Pallav and Sarah Fletcher<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">16:40 &ndash; 17:00<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Telerobotic Collaborative Intelligence Systems &ndash; Ethical and Regulatory Considerations in Industry 5.0<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Ines Filipa Fernandes Ramos, Maria Chiara Leva, Gabriele Gianini and Ernesto Damiani<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">17:00 &ndash; 17:20<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Humanoid Robot Governance: Relational Lifecycle Risk and the Limits of Anthropomorphic Design<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Kyoko Yoshinaga<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">17:20 &ndash; 17:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Emotional Design in Robotics: Myths and Red Lines<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Isabel Ferreira<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">17:40 &ndash; 18:00<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Embedding Ethics in Robotics Engineering<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Gilbert Tang, Anne-Marie Oostveen, Rebecca Raper, Richard Halliburton and Phil Webb<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h4>Social Programme<\/h4>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">19:00<\/span>\n    Banquet &ndash; Mitchell Hall, Cranfield\n  <\/div>\n\n\n  <h3>Day 2: Friday 18 September 2026<\/h3>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">08:00 &ndash; 09:00<\/span>\n    Registration (Vincent Building main entrance)\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">09:00 &ndash; 10:00 &nbsp;|&nbsp; Plenary Presentation 4 (Vincent auditorium) &nbsp;|&nbsp; Chair: Osman Tokhi<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">What could possibly go wrong? A case study in responsible robotics<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Prof. Alan Winfield, University of the West of England<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">10:00 &ndash; 10:20<\/span>\n    Coffee Break (Vincent atrium)\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h4>Session 4: AI, Cybernetic Avatars and LLMs: impacts on Economy and Society\n    <span class=\"icres-room\">10:20 &ndash; 12:00 &middot; Vincent auditorium &middot; Chairs: Rui Ota and Masahiro Sato<\/span><\/h4>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">10:20 &ndash; 10:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Dignity as the Mediating Principle: Postmortem Personhood in the Age of Digital Resurrection<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Kunifumi Saito<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">10:40 &ndash; 11:00<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Automation and Structural Change in an Open Economy<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Rui Ota, Liuchun Deng, Minako Fujio and Xin Lin<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">11:00 &ndash; 11:20<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Social Welfare and Technological Innovation in an Agentic Economy<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Masahiro Sato and Rui Ota<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">11:20 &ndash; 11:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Task delegation to generative AI: trust, risk perception, and implications for trustworthy AI<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Hidetaka Oshima, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Yukiko Osaka and Tomoaki Watanabe<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">11:40 &ndash; 12:00<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">A Legal Framework for Regulating Deepfakes in the Avatar Age: A Japanese Law Perspective<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Takayuki Matsuo<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">12:00 &ndash; 13:00<\/span>\n    Lunch (Vincent atrium)\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h4>Session 5: Human-Robot Trust and Work in the Industry 5.0 era\n    <span class=\"icres-room\">13:00 &ndash; 14:40 &middot; Vincent auditorium &middot; Chair: Vaishnavi Sashidharan<\/span><\/h4>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">13:00 &ndash; 13:20<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Trust Calibration as the Engineering Condition for Human&ndash;Robot Collaboration at Scale<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Gabriele Marchello<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">13:20 &ndash; 13:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Human Factors Challenges in Human&ndash;Robot Collaboration: Trust, Acceptance, and Future Directions Across Two White Goods Manufacturing Use Cases<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Maryam Bathaei Javareshk, Vaishnavi Sashidharan, Iveta Eimontaite and Sarah Fletcher<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">13:40 &ndash; 14:00<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Robot-in-the-Loop Collaboration: Ethics and Responsibility for Manual Professions<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Sotiris Manitsaris, Alina Glushkova and Alexandros Spyridonos<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">14:00 &ndash; 14:20<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">From Expectation to Experience: Understanding Operator Perceptions of Industrial Human&ndash;Robot Collaboration<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Vaishnavi Sashidharan, Iveta Eimontaite and Sarah Fletcher<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">14:20 &ndash; 14:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Neoliberalism, Artificial Intelligence, and the Transformation of Work: The Future is Now<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Isabel Ferreira<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">14:40 &ndash; 15:00<\/span>\n    Coffee Break (Vincent atrium)\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h4>Session 6: AI and Military Applications\n    <span class=\"icres-room\">15:00 &ndash; 16:00 &middot; Vincent auditorium &middot; Chair: Matthew Kilbane<\/span><\/h4>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">15:00 &ndash; 15:20<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">The Robotic Mosaic: From Iran&rsquo;s Antifragile Doctrine to Ukraine&rsquo;s Machine War<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Matthew Kilbane<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">15:20 &ndash; 15:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Waging War in the &lsquo;Foggy Infosphere&rsquo;: a socio-technical framing of military edge-AI<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Matt Jarvis<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">15:40 &ndash; 16:00<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Toward an Ethically Correct AI Kill Chain<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Selmer Bringsjord, Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu and Alexander Bringsjord<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h4>Session 7: Ethics, Legality and Transparency\n    <span class=\"icres-room\">16:00 &ndash; 17:40 &middot; Vincent auditorium &middot; Chair: Kyoko Yoshinaga<\/span><\/h4>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">16:00 &ndash; 16:20<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">When Transparency Deceives: Risks and Ethical Safeguards in XAI<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Alessia Vlasceanu, Emily C. Collins and Caroline Jay<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">16:20 &ndash; 16:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Industry Consensus as Safe Harbor: Risk Assessment Standards as a Reasonable-Care Anchor for AI Agent Liability After Section 230<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Eddan Katz<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">16:40 &ndash; 17:00<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">The ethical risks and mitigation of LLM enhanced robots<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Yuting Li and Alan Winfield<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">17:00 &ndash; 17:20<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">To go or not to go with the flow<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Endre Kadar<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-item\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">17:20 &ndash; 17:40<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-title\">Dignity Over Alignment: Long-term Care and AI Interaction<\/span>\n    <span class=\"icres-authors\">Thomas Arnold and Matthias Scheutz<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"icres-break\">\n    <span class=\"icres-time\">17:40 &ndash; 18:00<\/span>\n    Closure of ICRES 2026\n  <\/div>\n\n  <p class=\"icres-note\">\n    Provisional programme &ndash; subject to change. 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