The Lecture Programme of the 2025 Edition!!! Check back it will be updated!
Lecture 1: Overview
- 2025-10-30 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- AI and Robotics as tools to face our times’ global dramatic challenges
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
Lecture 2: AI, Robotics, Embodied AI: Questioning received opinions
- 2025-11-6 09:00 to 11:00 CET
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- (continued) Coping with ‘interesting times’. The Role of Embodiment in Intelligent Systems vs. Practical Robotics in 2025
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:15 Guest Lecture by Lorenzo Jamone
- University College London, London, UK
- “The Intelligence of the Hand”
Lecture 3: Evolution: Cognition from Scratch
- 2025-11-13 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- 09:00 * A teaser about Emerging Intelligence: Embodiment, Cognition from Interaction, Development and Evolution*
- Fabio Bonsignorio
- 9:15 Guest Lecture by Jitka Cejkova,
- University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Prague, Czechia, editor of “R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life”, MIT Press (2024)
- “R.U.R. robots were…biorobots”
- 10:15 Guest Lecture by Weidong Chen,
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai,China
- “Improving Autonomy and Safety of Intelligent Wheelchair in Dynamic Environments”
Lecture 4: Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies
- 2025-11-20 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- Morphological Computation, Self-Organization of Behaviors and Adaptive Morphologies
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:15 Guest lecture by Andrea Bertolini:
- Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
- “The EU AI Act”
Lecture 5: Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective I
- 2025-11-27 09:00 to 11:15 CET
- 9:00 Welcome (Fabio)
- 9:15 Guest lecture by Lola Canamero
- CY Cergy Paris University and ETIS Lab, Paris, France
- “Emotion Modeling in Robots “
- 10:15 Guest lecture by Matej Hoffmann:
- Czech Technical University Prague, Prague, Czechia
- “Embodied AI in Machine Learning - is it Really Embodied?”
Lecture 6: Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective II
- 2025-12-4 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- *Machine Learning and Deep Learning: an Embodied AI Perspective *
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:15 Guest lecture by Alessandra Sciutti
- IIT, Genoa, Italy
- “A social perspective on cognitive architectures “
Lecture 7: Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues
- 2025-12-11 09:00 to 11:30 CET
- Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues. Welcome and day teaser!
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 9:15 Guest lecture by Josie Hughes,
- EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- “Soft Robotics and Embodied AI “
- 10:05 Embodied Intelligence: principles and open issues.
- Lecturer: Fabio Bonsignorio
- 10:45 Guest lecture by Fumiya Iida,
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- “Informatizing Soft Robots for Super Embodied Intelligence “
Lecture 6: Grab Bag, Summary, Discussion
- 2025-18-12 09:00 to 11:00 CET
- 09:05 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”