Lecture Programme

The Lecture Programme of the 2024 Edition!!! Check back it will be updated!

Lecture 0: Overview

  • 2024-10-24 09:00 to 11:00 CEST
  • AI and Robotics as tools to face our times’ global dramatic challenges
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio

Lecture 1: AI, Robotics, Embodied AI: Questioning received opinions

  • 2024-10-31 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • The Role of Embodiment in Intelligent Systems vs. Practical Robotics in 2024
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest Lecture by Krzysztof Pomorski
    • Technical University of Lodz, Institute of Physics, Lodz, Poland and Quantum Hardware Systems
    • “From room temperature to superconducting cryogenic Braitenberg vehicles”

Lecture 2: Evolution: Cognition from Scratch

  • 2024-11-7 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • 09:05 Students’ prez: The Chinese Room Experiment… Live from Xian, China!
  • 09:15 Emerging Intelligence: Embodiment, Cognition from Interaction, Development and Evolution
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest Lecture by Vito Cacucciolo,
    • Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy and Omnigrasp
    • “Robotic Physics: how to use robots to hack the laws of physics. Fluidic muscles that do not obey Bernoulli’s law and grippers with programmable surface properties.”

Lecture 3: Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies

  • 2024-11-14 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest lecture by Cesare Stefanini:
    • Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Director The Biorobotics Institute,…, Pisa, Italy
    • “Underwater Bio-inspired Robotics””

Lecture 4: Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective I

  • 2024-11-21 09:00 to 11:15 CET
  • *Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective I *
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest lecture by Daniel Polani:
    • Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
    • “How information and embodiment shape intelligent information processing “

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

  • 2024-11-28 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • *Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective II *
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest lecture by Yoshihiko Nakamura
    • Department Chair of Robotics, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Prof.em. University of Tokyo, ,…, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    • “Embodied AI from Human Motion Data “

Lecture 6: Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues

  • 2024-12-5 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues.
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest lecture by Paolo Dario
    • Prof.em. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Founding Director The Biorobotics Institute, Scientific Director Artes 5.0,…, Pisa, Italy
    • “From Blue Sky Research to radical Deep tech Innovation “

Lecture 7: Grab Bag, Summary, Discussion

  • 2024-12-12 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • 09:05 Food for thought by Ezio Andreta
    • Foresight Project Coordinator, CNR Italy, Retired Director EU Commission, Brussels, Belgium,…
    • “Complexity, Self-Organization, Emergence”
  • 09:20 Grab Bag, Summary and topics to discuss: Video is killing the radio stars
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest lecture by Josh Bongard
    • University of Vermont, Burlington (VT), USA
    • “Evolutionary Robotics, Xenobots and beyond”