MORNING MASTERCLASS & BREAK-OUT SESSIONS

MASTERCLASS V (BS 2-1-1): Embodied Intelligence with FUMIYA IIDA
| Naoto Yoshida | Motivational autonomy: Grounding the agent’s motivation to the intrinsic physical dynamics of the body. |
| Pou Wai Lei | Mechanical Neural Computing in Adaptive Material Systems |
| Ananya Gandhi | Moving Depot (MOD): An Efficient Depot Motion Strategy for Multi-Robot Foraging |
| Kadri-Ann Pankratov | Molecular Level Changes Lead to Embodiment-Wide Actions |
| Nick Wilkinson | Beyond “not-falling”: A mechano-regulation paradigm for balancing in animals and robots |
MORNING BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
BREAK-OUT SESSION 1 (BS 3-1-2)
| CHAIR: David Hardman | Co-chair: Amanda Xu |
| Sundararaman Krishnamoorthi | Designing for Embodied Cognition: The Impact of Spatial Layout on Collaborative Problem-Solving in Smart Workspaces |
| Qinghua Guan | Compliance Regulation for Embodied Intelligence |
| Giulia D’Angelo | What’s catching your eye? – Bioinspired and neuromorphic algorithms to model visual attention |
| Julien Serres | From bio-inspired optical compass to polarimetric geolocation |
| Marin Moulard | Ecology of Embodied Intelligence |
| Angel P. del Pobil | Responsible Embodied AI |
| Tian Lan | < Title needed > |
| Qihan Jin | < Title needed > |
| Sujay Kadam | < Title needed > |
BREAK-OUT SESSION 2 (BS 3-1-3)
| CHAIR: Huijiang Wang | Co-chair: Nana Obayashi |
| Aysha Alshehhi | Trident: A Multi-functional Soft Appendage For Underwater Locomotion And Grasping |
| Sarokin Yauheni | Are liquids parts of embodiment? |
| Veikko Sariola | Soft micropneumatic tactile sensors and touchpads |
| Bilge Baytekin | Physical chemical regulation of soft robotic actuators |
| Xiang Wang | < Title needed > |
| Tianfeng Liang | < Title needed > |
| Maki Sato | < Title needed > |
| Sergiu Tcac Popescu | < Title needed > |
| Alexia Le Gall | < Title needed > |
BREAK-OUT SESSION 3 (BS 3-1-4)
| CHAIR: Kai-Fung Chu | Co-chair: Richard Monteiro |
| Xiaowei Chi | Video Generation Model For Robot Manipulation |
| Syed Abdullah Nazir | Learning to Rock-and-Walk: Dynamic, Non-Prehensile, and Underactuated Object Locomotion Through Reinforcement Learning |
| Xiaoping Zhang | Robot environment perception and understanding |
| Valeria Becattini | Learning to Attenuate Myself: A Predictive Processing Account of Body-Scan Meditation and the Dissolution of Bodily Boundaries |
| Mohd Owais | < Title needed > |
| Tanmay Gupta | < Title needed > |
| Sergey Sychev | Quantum generation of random processes – initiating unsimulated free-will cross-border search |