Partner sites

  1. University of Zagreb FER, Zagreb (Croatia)
  2. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland)
  3. Humboldt University zu Berlin (Germany)
  4. University of Tasmania, Launceston (Australia)
  5. Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian (China)
  6. Osaka University (Japan)
  7. Russian University for the Humanities, Moscow (Russia)
  8. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
  9. Tadeusz Koścuszko Cracow University of Technology (Poland)
  10. University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)
  11. AGH University of Science and Technologies, Crakow (Poland)
  12. University of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland)
  13. University College Dublin (Ireland)
  14. Politecnico di Bari Bari, (Italy)
  15. CNR-INM Heron@CNR Joint Lab Genoa, (Italy)

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
  • 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”