DAY 2 MASTERCLASSES & BREAK-OUT SESSIONS: 3 APRIL 2025


Leone CostiOn the fly connectome as a computational reservoir
Fan YeReservoir computing for robot control
Kai-Fung ChuPhysical computation in mobile swarm agents

BREAK-OUT SESSION 1 (BS 2-1-2)

CHAIR: Dana DamianCo-chairs: Xiang Wang
Oliver BrockAn Embodiment-Centric Approach to Robot Manipulation
Ronnie Videla
Francisco Parada
Claudio Aguayo
Embodied AI: Post-Cognitivist Reflections on the Role of Perception and Agency in Artificial Life Systems
Rajalakshmy Dr.P.Kinematic Analysis of Yaskawa Motoman GP8 Serial Manipulator
Jie Wang< Title needed >

BREAK-OUT SESSION 2 (BS 2-1-3)

CHAIR: Jerry XuCo-chairs: Catherine Merchant
Maria Elena GiannacciniSoft Robots for Humans
Jialun LiuUntethered Chemically-Driven Thermo-responsive Soft Robotic Capsule
Seyedreza Kashef TabrizianAutonomous self-healing in soft robotics via hardware multifunctionality
Sareum KimBioinspired locomotion through compliant mechanism design
Jerry XuEmbodied intelligence in civil engineering structures
CHAIR: Ryman HashemCo-chair: Xiang Wang
Antonia GeorgopoulouSensor Development for Biohybrid Robots
Zihan ZhaoEnsemble Control of a 2-DOF Parallel Link Arm in a Capsule Robot Using Oscillating External Magnetic Fields
Haoyi Zhang<Title needed >
Yi Zhang<Title needed >

Catherine MerchantIn-Situ Classification of Soil Types Exploiting Electrical Impedance Tomography with a Robotic Actuating Probe
Amanda XuMulti-layer EIT setup
Alessandra YuThe Human Affectome
Paul VerschureFrom Embodiment to Conscious Control: The Distributed Adaptive Control Framework

BREAK-OUT SESSION 1 (BS 2-2-2)

CHAIR: Yue XieCo-chair: Huijiang Wang
Henry CerboneAn environmentally situated state-space model of embodied cognition
Jose A. Fernandez-LeonRethinking Behavioral Robustness: An Embodied and Relational Perspective
Johan LindEfficiency in animal memory systems: Does the sequence bottleneck solve the thinking bottleneck?
Nathaniel WrightMagic as a paradigm for understanding embodied intelligence
Avel Guénin–CarlutThings that think are things that grow – Contextuality, development, and (embodied) intelligence
Laura Desiree Di PaoloEmbodied and Educated
Huijiang WangDexterity enhances the robotic expressiveness for piano playing
Mumin Dar<Title needed >
Alexander RossMirroring the Future of Embodied Intelligence: Science Fiction’s Prescience

BREAK-OUT SESSION 2 (BS 2-2-3)

CHAIR: Shuhei MiyashitaCo-chair: David Hardman
Parent JesseNavigating Time Through the Body: Embodied Intelligence, Narrative Agency, and the Challenge of Digiphrenia
Gokul Saseendra PanickerOptisort – Nuclear Waste Pile Sorting
Baxi ChongEmbodied intelligence in robot locomotion, and the connection to information theory
Alberto ComorettoPhysical synchronization of soft self-oscillating limbs for fast and autonomous locomotion
Giuseppe PaoloTAG: A Decentralized Framework for Multi-Agent Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Aeden GilliamFailure Biomechanics Data Collection: For Robots to Understand how to Respond in a Crisis
Heramb Modugula<Title needed >
CHAIR: Thomas ThuruthelCo-chair: Richard Monteiro
Robert KatzschmannLiving Robots: Modeling, Fabrication, and Embodied Intelligence
Yunqi HuangElectrical Impedance Tomography Based Soft Artificial Skin for Robot Sensing
Federico PigozziAssociative Conditioning in Gene Regulatory Network Models Increases Integrative Causal Emergence
Shammo DuttaDevelopment and Validation of Computational \Modeling Framework for Tendon-based Soft Robotics
Mostafa MohamedOptimization and Reduction of an Anthropomorphic Prosthetic Hand Actuators based on Hand Motor Synergy
Lola Cañamero<Title needed >
Monica Li<Title needed >
Pratik Ingle<Title needed >