News
Nov 21st: The symposium is closed.
Nov 8th: The registration is closed.
Nov 1st: The registration deadline has been extended.
Oct 20th: The schedule is updated.
Oct 19th: Company Tour is updated.
Oct 11th: The schedule is updated.
Sep 13th: The registration form is open.
Sep 12th: The website is open.
About Symposium
In November 2023, Core-to-Core Satellite Symposium of MNC 2023 – Materials Meet Robots 2023 – will be organized by Research Center for Neuromorphic AI Hardware, Kyushu Institute of Technology. This symposium is a satellite symposium of 36th International Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference (MNC 2023). The aim of the symposium is to provide an opportunity for discussion with researchers of material science and robotics and to make new ideas for research collaborations.
Date
November 20th (Monday) – 21st (Tuesday), 2023
Day 1: 13:00 – 17:00 JST (UTC+9)
Day 2: 09:00 – 16:00 JST (UTC+9)
Event
Lecture
Day 1 13:30-14:00 Invited talk1 by Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (Waseda University)
Title: Electrolyte-based Physical Reservoir
Day 1 14:00-14:30 Invited talk2 by Prof. Konrad Szacitowski (AGH University of Science and Technology)
Title: Reservoir computing for sensing applications
Ideathon
The aim of this ideathon is to come up with new ideas for research collaborations of material science and robotics. Several teams including researchers/students of material science and robotics will be organized, discuss some ideas, and give presentations of the ideas. The presentation will be evaluated and the winner will get an extra prize.
Day 1 15:00-15:10: Introduction
Day 1 15:10-15:30: Team building
Day 1 15:30-: Discussion
Day 2 09:00-11:00: Presentation
Day 2 13:00-13:30: Award ceremony
Robot Demonstration
Day 2 11:00-13:00
Participants have lunch while watching a robot working as a waiter at a real restaurant. The other robot with a material-based sensor is presented. These robots are presented by Hibikino-Musashi@Home, which is a robot developing team of Kyushu Institute of Technology.
Company Tour
Day 2 15:00-16:00
Participants will visit TOTO Meusium by bus.
Venue
Venue: Conference Center of Kitakyushu Science and Research Park
Address: 2-3 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, 808-0135, Japan
How to go to the venue From Fukuoka Airport 1. 6 minutes via Fukuoka City Subway to Hakata Station 2. 30 minutes via JR to Orio Station (Limited express) 3. 15 minutes taxiride or 20 minutes bus to the venue From Kitakyushu Airport 1. 78 minutes via Airport Bus to Gakken Hibikino From Hakata Station 1. 30 minutes via JR to Orio Station (Limited express) 2. 15 minutes taxiride or 20 minutes bus to the venue From Kokura Station 1. 25 minutes via JR to Orio Station 2. 15 minutes taxiride or 20 minutes bus to the venue
Registration
If you would like to cancel the registration, please contact the secretariat (neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp).
Please pay the registration fee in cash at the venue’s reception.
| Internal member of Neumorph Center *1 (Non-student) | 5,000 JPY |
| External member of Neumorph Center *2 (Non-student) | 5,000 JPY |
| Non-member (Non-student) | 5,000 JPY |
| Student | 0 JPY |
*2 External member of Neumorph Center is an advisory member of Neumorph Center
If you are not sure if you are a member or not, please contact the center.
Important dates
| Deadline for registration |
Committee
Hirofumi Tanaka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Hakaru Tamukoh (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Yuki Usami (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Yuichiro Tanaka (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Secretariat: neumorph-center[at]brain.kyutech.ac.jp
