Break-out Rooms: Presentations
24 March 2021 (Lunch time session, 12-1pm)
Session 1: Cognitive Developmental Robotics
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Perla Maiolino Matej Hoffmann Peter Miles |
| Angelo Cangelosi: | Embodiment and Developmental Robotics |
| Joni Zhong: | Towards an embodied robot model for ASD Active beamforming – sensory array theory for embodied action-perception |
| Nicholas Wilkinson: | Learning body models: from humans to humanoids |
| Matej Hoffmann: | System 1/System 2: from discovering structure in the world to self-structuring the brain itself |
| Alex Pitti: | Embodied AI approach to an artificial self |
| Verena Hafner: | Embodied Intelligence for Tactile Perception |
| Perla Maiolino: | Embodied Intelligence for Tactile Perception |
Session 2: Beyond Bio-Inspired Robotics and Control
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Simon Hauser Utku Culha Josie Hughes |
| Alona Kharchenko: | MUSC 3.0: an open-source modular musculo-skeletal robotics toolkit |
| Federico Renda: | Flagellate Underwater Robotics at the Macroscale |
| Stephane Viollet: | Multimodal locomotion in robotics: an origami approach |
| Francesco Giorgio-Serchi: | Embodied elasticity enables optimal propulsive efficiency in bioinspired pulsed-jet vehicles |
| Utku Culha: | Learning how to walk on milliscale soft robots |
| Carlos Herrera Perez: | Making sense of robotic dance |
| Gwangpil Jung: | A Highly Mobile Chameleon-inspired Long-Distance Manipulator |
| Hugo Marques: | Demystifying the role of the cerebellum in motor coordination |
Session 3: Open Crazy Topics
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Marwa ElDiwiny Kieran Gilday Toby Howison |
| Joni Mici: | Assembly Paradigms for Cellular Machines |
| Fabio Giardina/S Ganga Prasath: | Emergent cooperative escape in ants and robots |
| Rana Faryad Ali: | Stimuli-responsive soft robotics: Where can these robots take us, and where can we take them? |
| Grzegorz Sochacki: | Touch, smell, taste and sound sensing in robotic kitchen |
| S.M.Hadi Sadati: | A Morphological Observers for Hard-to-Model/Observe/Measure System States: Case of A Helical Stiffness Controllable Interface |
| Toby Howison: | Evolving balloons |
| John Rieffel: | Revisiting Brooks and Embodied Intelligence |
| Simon McGregor: | Translating Between The Mental And The Physical |
24 March 2021 (Evening session, 5pm)
Session 1: Kinds of Intelligence
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Thilina Lalitharatne Thomas George-Thuruthel Greg Sochacki |
| Lola Canamero: | Embodied Emotion, Cognition and Interaction: The Tangled Knot of Embodied Intelligence |
| Sam Kriegman: | Living Robots |
| Oswald Berthold: | Flatcat, your next robot is a pet |
| Fritz Vollrath: | Spiders using regenerated legs |
| Sonia Roberts: | Designing robots to exploit affordances |
| Matteo Cianchetti: | Embodied intelligence for resilient soft robots |
| Jesse Parent: | A Decade in Review: Computational Modelling of Embodied Cognition |
| Peter Bentley: | Morphogenesis: Distributed Intelligence for Generative Design |
| Paul Verschure: | The Distributed Adaptive Control of Volition in Humans and Robots: from embodied cognitive architectures, to neurocomputational models and intracranial physiology |
| Nicoletta Risi: | Spike-based stereo with mixed-signal neuromorphic hardware |
Session 2: Embodied Intelligence in Soft Robotics
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Hadi Sadati Fabio Giardina Grzegorz Sochacki |
| Cosimo Della Santina: | Nonlinear modal analysis as a mean for describing Embodied Intelligence in Soft Robots |
| Aditya Bhatt: | How the body shapes the way we manipulate |
| Bert Van Raemdonck: | FONS: a modelling tool for simulating morphological control in fluidic systems |
| Maria Elena Giannaccini: | Variable compliance for effective robot design in unstructured environments |
| Vincent Wall: | Acoustic Sensing for Soft Pneumatic Actuators |
| Xiaoguang Dong: | Embodying coordinated behaviors in collective soft robots |
| John Rieffel: | Behavioural Repertoires for Soft Robotics |
25 March 2021 (Morning session, 8-9am)
Session 1: Self-Organisation and Bio-Inspired Robotics (Group 1)
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Shuhei Miyashita Suryz Nurzaman Toby Howison |
| Nhan Huu Nguyen: | Study of sensing function recovery in damaged sensor structure by adaptive shape-shifting: Case of Rodent’s Vibrissae |
| Hermes Gadelha: | Embodied Intelligence of microorganisms |
| Andy Tyrrell: | Autonomous Robot Evolution |
| David Howard: | Designer Embodied Cognition |
| Surya Nurzaman: | Embodied learning and optimisation in soft and multi-material robots: from aerial to ground application |
| Edmund Hunt: | Collective cognition via embodied approximate Bayesian computation |
| Qi An: | Motor recovery after stroke |
Session 2: Self-Organisation and Bio-Inspired Robotics (Group 2)
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Hadi Sadati Fabio Giardina Grzegorz Sochacki |
| Swapnil Kumar: | Stability analysis for Connected Autonomous Vehicle |
| Tønnes Nygaard: | Morphology Adaptation in Real-world Robots |
| Roderich Gross: | On controlling ensembles of memoryless robots |
| Koh Hosoda: | Biomimetic Muscular Skeletal Robots |
| Angela Faragasso: | Smart design of effective robot mechanisms and devices |
| Rymen Hashem: | Soft Robotic Stomach |
| Kenjiro Tadakuma: | Soft Robotic Mechanisms, – from Robotic Nemertea Proboscis into Robotic Blood Vessel Mechanism |
| Alex Schmitz: | Soft Robots and Soft Sensors For Safe and Adaptive Manipulation |
25 March 2021 (Lunch time session, 12-1pm)
Session 1: Biohybrid, Cyborg, Human in the loop
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Luca Scimeca Florence Leong Leoni Costi |
| Leone Costi: | Achieving complex motion primitives through smart design |
| Rafael Hostettler: | Roboy 3.0 – Open-Source musculo-skeletal telepresence system |
| Ilana Nisky: | Human-in-the-loop design for tele-operated robot-assisted surgery |
| Kieran Gilday: | Dexterous Manipulation and the Passive Hand |
| Angel P. Del Pobil: | The Challenge of Manual Robotic Intelligence |
| Dana Damian: | Robot’s Vulnerabilities In Vivo |
| Mini Saaj: | IVF & Soft Robotics: Can we pair them? |
Session 2: Open Crazy Topics
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Perla Maiolino Grzegorz Sochacki Peter Miles |
| Alastair Channon: | The Open-Ended Evolution route to Embodied Intelligence |
| Swapnil Kumar: | Depiction of the behaviour of Tibia bone using the concept of FEA and Data Acquisition and its development using Additive manufacturing |
| Giacomo Indiveri: | Mind, Brain, and Body of Neuromorphic Cognitive Agents |
| Jingyue Zhao: | Neuromorphic Closed-loop Motor Control |
| Jane Loveless: | Embodied Maggots and Worms |
| Gusz Eiben: | How the brain shapes the body |
| Stefan Dvoretskii: | Modelling Neural Development with Braitenberg Vehicles |
| Bradly John Alicea: | Approaches to Developmental Embodied Neurosimulation |
25 March 2021 (Afternoon session, 5pm)
Session 1: Beyond Soft Robotics
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Thomas George-Thuruthel Kieran Gilday Kieran Gilday |
| Gaurav Singh: | Modelling and analysis of modular soft robots using muscle like linear actuators |
| Abdon Pena-Francesch: | Self-healing materials in Soft Robotics |
| Hiromi Mochiyama: | Rod Integration and Embodied Intelligence |
| Kaspar Althoefer: | Navigating eversion robots |
| Lucca Beccai: | Towards embodied versatile gripping: the PROBOSCIS approach |
| Thomas George-Thuruthel: | Static modelling of temporal nonlinearities |
Session 2: Links between EI and Learning
| Chair: Co-Chair: Technical Support: | Hadi Sadati David Hardman Toby Howison |
| Simon Birrell: | Using self-organised behaviours generated by Differential Extrinsic Plasticity (DEP) to guide the exploratory phase of Reinforcement Learning |
| Adam Safron: | Bootstrapping off of embodied priors in Bayesian structure learning |
| David Hardman: | Non-contact control of a floating object via environmental manipulation |
| Andrés Méndez: | Moto-sensory contingencies set the grounds for sustained attention and the emergence of more complex forms of cognitive control |
| Jorge Soto-Andrade: | Embodiment in the learning of mathematics |
| Daniel Polani: | Favourable embodiments and cognitive highways |
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