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 2026 Edition!!! Check back it will be updated!

Lecture 1: Overview

  • 2026-10-29 09:00 to 11:00 CET
    • Embodied/Physical AI on a Hot Little Planet*
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio

Lecture 2: Open issues, research challenges, and the road ahead in

AI for Robotics

  • 2026-11-5 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • Open issues, research challenges, and the road ahead in AI for Robotics
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest Lecture by Enrica Zereik
    • National Research Council of Italy, Genoa, Italy
    • “Towards trustworthy multi-robot cooperation: Embodied Intelligence, Social cues, and experimental reproducibility”

Lecture 3: Evolution: Cognition from Scratch

  • 2026-11-12 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • Open issues, research challenges, and the road ahead in AI for Robotics
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest Lecture by Eric Monacelli,
    • University of Versailles, Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
    • “VOLTING: Emotional Mobility - Exploring Interactive Assistive Robotics Through an Artistic and Innovative Approach with applications”

Lecture 4: Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies

  • 2026-11-19 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Case Studies
    • All
    • “Playing with Research Challenges”

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

  • 2026-11-26 09:00 to 11:15 CET
  • 9:00 Welcome
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective (teaser)
  • Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 09:15 Guest lecture by Lucia Beccai
    • IIT, Genoa, Italy
    • “How to Make Soft Robots Perceptive “
  • 10:15 Guest lecture by Bin Gong:
    • Secretary-General of Guoxin Embodied Intelligence Innovation Center，Secretary-General of RoboCom International Opening Committee
    • “RoboCom and RAICOM Competitions”

Lecture 6: Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective II

  • 2026-12-3 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 09:55 Guest lecture by Ezio Andreta
    • CNR Foresight, Former EU Commission Research Director, Rome, Italy
    • “Materials are the Future “
  • 10:45 Guest lecture by Mario Rasetti
    • Em.Prof. Theoretical Physics, Politecnico di Torino, Former President CENTAI, Former President Fondazione ISI, Turin, Italy
    • “The Future of AI”

Lecture 7: Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues

  • 2026-12-10 09:00 to 11:30 CET
  • Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest lecture by Cosimo Della Santina,
    • TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
    • “Unconventional Robotics “

Lecture 8: Grab Bag, Summary, Discussion

  • 2026-12-17 09:00 to 11:00 CET
  • 09:05 Grab Bag, Summary and topics to discuss: insect level intelligence?
  • Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
  • 10:15 Guest lecture by Josh Bongard
    • University of Vermont, Burlington (VT), USA
    • “Vermont Night Lecture Update on Evolutionary Robotics, Xenobots and beyond”