The Lecture Programme of the 2023 Edition
Lecture 0: Overview
- 2023-10-26 09:00 to 11:00 CEST
- AI and Robotics as tools to face our times’ global dramatic challenges
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- The Lecture’s PDF is here.
Lecture 1: AI, Robotics, Embodied AI: Questioning received opinions
- 2023-11-2 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- The Role of Embodiment in Intelligent Systems vs. Practical Robotics in 2023
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- The Lecture’s PDF is here.
- 10:15 Guest Lecture by Krzysztof Pomorski
- Technical University of Lodz, Institute of Physics, Lodz, Poland
- “Thermodynamics in Stochastic Conway’s Game of Life”
- The Guest Lecture’s PDF is here.
Lecture 2: Evolution: Cognition from Scratch
- 2023-11-9 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- Emerging Intelligence: Embodiment, Cognition from Interaction, Development and Evolution
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:15 INTERACTIVE SESSION with Fabio Bonsignorio (respondent) and Enrica Zereik (speaker):
- CNR - INM, Heron@Cnr Joint Lab, Genoa, Italy
- *“Dialogue on the Chief Systems of AI and Robotics :-) *
Lecture 3: Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies
- 2023-11-16 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 09:50 Koans Announcement
- The Koans and related instructions are here.
- 10:15 Guest lecture by Amit Kumar Pandey:
- Rovial Space, Paris, France
- “An Industrial perspective of Robotics: from Social Space to Outer Space””
Lecture 4: Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective I
- 2023-11-23 09:00 to 11:15 CET
- *Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective I *
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:15 Guest lecture by Perla Maiolino:
- Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- “Why robots need soft and perceptive bodies”
Lecture 5: Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective II
- 2023-11-30 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- *Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective II *
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:15 INTERACTIVE SESSION with Fabio Bonsignorio (respondent) and Ezio Andreta (speaker):
- Foresight Project Coordinator, CNR Italy, Retired Director EU Commission, Brussels, Belgium
- *“Why complexity matters with the ecological transition”
Lecture 6: Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues
- 2023-12-7 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues.
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:15 Guest lecture by Tetsuya Ogata
- Waseda University, Director, Open Innovation Promotion Section, Research Innovation Center, Director, Institute for AI and Robotics,…, Tokyo, Japan
- “AI and Deep Predictive Learning Methods in Robotics”
Lecture 7: Grab Bag, Summary, Discussion
- 2023-12-14 09:00 to 11:30 CET
- Grab Bag, Summary and topics to discuss: Video is killing the radio stars
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 09:15 Guest lecture by Concha Monje
- University Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- “Fractional Control and (Soft) Robots “
- 10:15 Guest lecture by Josh Bongard
- University of Vermont, Burlington (VT), USA
- “Evolutionary Robotics, Xenobots and beyond”