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”