Partner sites

  1. University of Zagreb FER, Zagreb (Croatia)
  2. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
  3. Humboldt University zu Berlin (Germany)
  4. University of Tasmania, Launceston (Australia)
  5. Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian (China)
  6. Osaka University (Japan)
  7. Russian University for the Humanities, Moscow (Russia)
  8. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
  9. Tadeusz Koścuszko Cracow University of Technology (Poland)
  10. University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)
  11. AGH University of Science and Technologies, Crakow (Poland)
  12. University of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland)
  13. University College Dublin (Ireland)
  14. Politecnico di Bari Bari, (Italy)
  15. CNR-INM Heron@CNR Joint Lab Genoa, (Italy)

Lecture Programme 2018

The Lecture Programme, the video recordings and the slides from the ShanghAI Lectures 2018. Be ready for 2019’s 10th Anniversary Edition!

Lecture 1: Overview

  • 2018-10-25 09:30 to 11:00 CEST
  • The Future of Robotics
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • The Lecture’s PDF is here.
  • The Lecture’s video is here .
  • 课程视频在这里

Lecture 2: Intelligence: things can be seem differently

  • 2018-11-01 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • What we mean when we talk about intelligence?
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • The Lecture’s PDF is here.
  • The Lecture’s video is here .
  • 课程视频在这里

Lecture 3: Embodiment

  • 2018-11-08 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • The Role of Embodiment in Intelligent Systems
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • The Lecture’s PDF is here.
  • The Lecture’s video is here .
  • 课程视频在这里
  • Guest lecture by Amanda Lunt:
    • University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
    • “Thinking About Robotics: Ontology is Not a Dirty Word””
    • The Lecture’s PDF is here.

Lecture 4: Evolution: Cognition from Scratch

  • 2018-11-15 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • Evolution: Cognition from Scratch
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • The Lecture’s PDF is here.
  • The Lecture’s video is here .
  • 课程视频在这里
  • Guest lecture by Krzysztof Pomorski:
    • University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
    • “From Quantum Hardware to Quantum AI”
    • The Lecture’s PDF is here.

Lecture 5: Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies

  • 2018-11-22 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • The Lecture’s PDF is here.
  • The Lecture’s video is here .
  • 课程视频在这里
  • Guest lecture by Elena Cuoco MOVED TO NEXT THURSDAY (Lecturer was sick):
    • EGO-Virgo and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
    • “Why using artificial intelligence in the search for gravitational waves?”

Lecture 6: Collective Intelligence: Cognition from Interaction

  • 2018-11-29 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • Emerging Intelligence: Cognition from Interaction, Development and Evolution
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • The Lecture’s video is here .
  • 课程视频在这里
  • Guest lecture by Elena Cuoco (MOVED FROM Previous THURSDAY, Lecturer was sick):
    • EGO-Virgo and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
    • “Why using artificial intelligence in the search for gravitational waves?”
    • The Lecture’s PDF is here.
  • Guest lecture by Joanna Bryson:
    • University of Bath, UK and Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy
    • “Artificial Intelligence and a Politically Sustainable Economy”
    • The Lecture’s PDF is here.

NO LECTURE ON 2018-12-6

Lecture 7: Embodied Intelligence: Principles and open issues

  • 2018-12-13 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • The Lecture’s video is here .
  • 课程视频在这里
  • Guest lecture by Edoardo Sinibaldi:
    • Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy
    • “Model-based orienteering: (selected topics on) where to go, where not to go, and imaginative trails”
    • The Lecture’s PDF is here.
  • Guest lecture by Josh Bongard:
    • Vermont Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont, USA
    • “Using evolutionary robotics to study embodied cognition”
    • The Lecture’s PDF is here.

Lecture 8: Grab Bag, Summary, Discussion

  • 2018-12-20 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • Grab Bag, Summary and topics to discuss
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • The Lecture’s video is here .
  • 课程视频在这里
  • The Lecture’s PDF is here.
  • Guest lecture by Yulia Sandamirskaya:
    • Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), University of Zurich / ETH Zurich
    • “Neuromorphic Computing: Embodiment of Neuronal Dynamics”
    • The Lecture’s PDF is here.