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