The Lecture Programme of the 2021 Edition
Lecture 0: Overview
- 2021-10-28 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- The Future of Robotics and AI
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
Lecture 1: Intelligence: things can be seen differently
- 2021-11-4 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- Robotics in practice in 2021
- The Need for an Embodied AI and Reproducible Research Approach
- Koans 2021 Presentation
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:15 Guest Lecture by Krzysztof Pomorski
- Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Quantum Hardware Systems, Lodz, Poland
- “From Classical Sensing and Computation to Q-Computation and Q-AI”
Lecture 2: Embodiment
- 2021-11-11 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- The Role of Embodiment in Intelligent Systems
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- Koans Announcement. Check the 2021 Koans here. Prez next week!
- 9:15 Guest lecture by Rachel Armstrong:
- Department of Architecture, Campus Sint-Lucas, KU Leuven, Ghent/Brussels, Belgium
- “A distillation of Life: On Electron Flow, energy, transformational matter & intelligence”
Lecture 3: Evolution: Cognition from Scratch
- 2021-11-18 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- Emerging Intelligence: Embodiment, Cognition from Interaction, Development and Evolution
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:00 Guest lecture by Chiara Marletto (recorded):
- Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK
- “The Science of Can and Can’t”
Lecture 4: Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies
- 2021-11-25 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 9:15 Guest lecture by Pierfrancesco Moretti:
- Foresight WG Materials Leader, CNR, Rome, Italy
- “Stem materials, the frame problem and semantics”
- 10:15 Guest lecture by Maarja Kruusmaa:
- TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
- “Challenges in underwater robotics: why it’s difficult to go close and shallow?”
Lecture 5: Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective
- 2021-12-2 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning: a Embodied AI Perspective
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:15 Guest lecture by Ezio Andreta:
- Foresight Project Coordinator, CNR Italy, Retired Director EU Commission, Brussels, Belgium
- “From complexity to AI”
Lecture 6: Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues
- 2021-12-9 09:30 to 12:00 CET
- Robotics in practice in 2021.
- Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues.
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:45 Guest student lecture by Lukasz Pluszynski
- Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland
- ” Stigmergy “
- 11:15 Guest lecture by Toshio Fukuda
- Meijo University, Past President IEEE, Founding Chair IROS, Nagoya, Japan
- ” Multiscale Robotics and the Future of Intelligent Robotics “
Lecture 7: Grab Bag, Summary, Discussion
- 2021-12-16 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- Grab Bag, Summary and topics to discuss: Video is killing the radio stars
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 09:50 Guest student lecture by Dariusz Kotula
- Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland
- “Stochastic Conway Game of Life “
- 10:15 Guest lecture by Josh Bongard
- University of Vermont, Burlington (VT), USA
- “Evolutionary Robotics, Xenobots and beyond”