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About the conference
Since 2021, this FREE event has brought together a wide range of speakers to discuss the many challenges and opportunities in Embodied Intelligence research! The conference is structured with a morning session and afternoon session each day to accommodate different time zones. Each session includes plenary talks, panel discussions (including flash talks by leading researchers), and breakout sessions as shown in the tentative programme here. While plenary and panel speakers are invitation-only, we solicit wider contributions in breakout sessions to facilitate more focused and technical discussions.
This year’s programme features masterclasses and breakout sessions across three global time zones.
We want to use this conference to answer some of the key open questions relating to EI, including, but not limited to:
Research questions
- What is (embodied) intelligence?
- How does computation come about from embodiment?
- How does language emerge?
- How do we understand intelligence and what theories do we have to represent it?
- What are the common currencies?
- How can we measure complexity?
- What cannot be done by computational intelligence?
- What ethical questions arise from EI?
Masterclasses were introduced at the EI conference in 2025, designed to facilitate focused group discussions with experts, offering participants an opportunity to engage deeply and learn from leaders in the field.
Invited speakers
Organising committee
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
| General Chair | Chapa Sirithunge (University of Bristol) |
| General Co-Chair | Ryman Hashem (University of Oxford) |
| Programme Chair | Yue Xie (Loughborough University) |
| Breakout Session Chair | Kai-Fung Chu (University of Bristol) |
| Outreach Chair | Huijiang Wang (EPFL) |
| Regional Chairs: Asia – Qi Shao (The University of Tokyo) Europe – Arsen Abdulali (Queen Mary University of London) Americas – Sareum Kim (McGill University) | |
Advisory board
| Fumiya Iida (University of Tokyo/University of Cambridge) | |
| Josie Hughes (EPFL) | |
| Perla Maiolino (University of Oxford) | |
| Cecilia Laschi (National University of Singapore) | |
| Nana Obayashi (New York University) |
Committee members
Programme Committee
Qi Shao, Arsen Abdulali, Sareum Kim, Thilina Lalitharatne, Chapa Sirithunge
Workshop & Breakout Session Committee
Thilina Lalitharatne, Kai Fung Chu, Fan Ye, Ryman Hashem, Ken Iiyoshi, Tony Huo, Menna Soliman
Outreach, Zoom, Website & Recording Committee
Huijiang Wang, Xiang Wang, Qi Shao, Ken Iiyoshi, Beihui Dai, Jerry Xu, Yi (Amy) Zhang
Proceedings Committee
Yi Zhang, David Hardman, Saba Firouznia, Ryman Hashem, Jerry Xu