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

The Lecture Programme of the 2020’s Edition

Lecture 0: Overview

  • 2020-10-29 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • The Future of Robotics and AI
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio

Lecture 1: Intelligence: things can be seen differently

  • 2020-11-5 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • The Need for an Embodied AI and Reproducible Research Approach
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio

Lecture 2: Embodiment

  • 2020-11-12 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • The Role of Embodiment in Intelligent Systems
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • Guest lecture by Salua Hamaza and Andre Farinha:
    • Imperial College, London, UK
    • “Sensor Delivery in Forests with Aerial Robots: A New Paradigm to Environmental Monitoring”
    • The Guest Lecture’s PDF is here

Lecture 3: Evolution: Cognition from Scratch

  • 2020-11-19 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • Emerging Intelligence: Cognition from Interaction, Development and Evolution
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • Students’ lecture: “The Turing Machine” from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian (China)
  • The Students’ Lecture’s PDF is here
  • Guest lecture by Martin Stoelen:
    • Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
    • “Soft touch and soft actuation in a selective harvesting robot”

Lecture 4: Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies

  • 2020-11-26 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • Koans Announcement. Check the 2020 Koans here
  • Guest lecture by Daniele Pucci:
    • Dynamic Interaction Control, Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, IIT, Genoa, Italy
    • “Towards Aerial Humanoid Robotics: the iRonCub”
    • The Guest Lecture’s PDF is here

Lecture 5: Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective

  • 2020-12-3 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • Students’ lecture: Álvaro Ramajo Ballester * “Intelligence and autonomy in robotics”* from Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • The Students’ Lecture’s PDF is here
  • Guest lecture by Tom Froese:
    • Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan
    • “Overcoming the limits of AI by empowering the human mind”
    • The Guest Lecture’s PDF is here

Lecture 6: Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues

  • 2020-12-10 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues. Koans Flash Presentation. DL 17 December 2020
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • Students’ lecture 1: Francisco Blanco Esquivel “How robots can help us do laundry” from Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • Students’ lecture 2: Łukasz Pluszyński “Self-reconfiguring modulas robots” from Politechnika Krakowska, Cracow, Poland
  • The Students’ Lecture 2’s PDF is here
  • Guest lecture by Darius Burschka
    • Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
    • “Deep Learning – the path from big data indexing to robotics applications”
    • The Guest Lecture’s PDF is here

Lecture 7: Grab Bag, Summary, Discussion

  • 2020-12-17 09:30 to 11:00 CET
  • Grab Bag, Summary and topics to discuss
  • Flash Latest Results Lecture: Krzysztof Pomorski “From classical epidemic model to quantum mechanics and quantum AI” from Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland
  • The Flash Lecture’s PDF is here
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • Guest lecture by Josh Bongard
    • University of Vermont, Burlington (VT), USA
    • “Evolutionary Robotics and Xenobots”
    • The Guest Lecture’s PDF is here