EI 2021 Workshop Presentations

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Introduction and Welcome: Fumiya Iida (University of Cambridge)

Plenary Talk: Yasuo Kuniyoshi (University of Tokyo) ‘Embodiment as the Basis of Emergence and Development of Human Behaviour and Cognition’
Short talks and Panel discussion:
- Cecilia Laschi (National University Singapore) ‘Embodied Intelligence in (soft) Robotics: joys and sorrows’
- Andy Clark (University of Sussex) ‘X-SPECT: embodied prediction and the construction of conscious experience’
- Jun Tani (OIST) ‘Understanding Embodied Cognition through Free Energy Minimization’
- Matt Crosby (Imperial College) ‘For AGI Minimal Embodiment is All You Need but You Need All of it’
- Barbara Webb (University of Edinburgh) ‘Embodied Insect Intelligence’
Panel discussion: Morning session

Day 1 Morning Session Summary: Fumiya Iida (University of Cambridge) Afternoon Session Chair: Josh Bongard (University of Vermont)

Plenary Talk: Karl Friston (UCL) ‘Active Inference and Embodied Intelligence’
Short talks and Panel discussion:
- Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (Harvard University) ‘Extending Embodiment’
- Daniela Rus (MIT) ‘Soft-Sensorized Robots for Embodied Intelligence’
- Metin Sitti (Max Planck Institute) ‘Physical Intelligence as a New Paradigm’
- Nihat Ay (Max Planck Institute) ‘Beyond Cheap Control’
- Lucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) ‘Why AI needs [bodies with] Needs (but we might n0t want them to have them)’
- Hod Lipson (Columbia University) ‘Self-Reflecting Machines’
Panel discussion: Afternoon Session
Plenary Talk: Olaf Sporns (Indiana University) ‘Embodied Intelligence: A Perspective from Complex Brain Networks’
End of Day 1 discussion

Day 1 Summary: Fumiya Iida (University of Cambridge)

Plenary Talk: Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo) ‘Offloaded Mind: the experiments of dyadic humanoid/human interaction’
Short talks and Panel discussion:
- Stoyan Smoukov (Queen Mary University) ‘Growing materials with Embodied Intelligence’
- Dario Floreano (EPFL) ‘The unbearable lightness of drones’
- Barbara Mazzolai (Italian Institute of Technology) ‘Extended Embodied Intelligence in Plants’
- Jonathan Rossiter (University of Bristol) ‘Can embodied intelligent help us make better soft robotic organisms?’
- Yukie Nagai (University of Tokyo) ‘Roles of Embodiment in Cognitive Development’
Panel discussion: Morning Session

Day 2 Morning Session summary: Josie Hughes (Downing College, UoC)

Plenary Talk: Pietro Cicuta (University of Cambridge) ‘Motile cilia: from emergent dynamics to computation’
Short talks and Panel discussion:
- Thrishantha Nanayakkara (Imperial College) ‘The brain is smarter than what we think it is – it organises the body to do things it is lazy to do’
- Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio (Yale University) Is it or isn’t it: Embodied Intelligence?
- Daniel Goldman (Georgia Tech) ‘Novel environmental interactions during terradynamic self-propulsion via self-deformation’
- Mirko Kovač (Imperial College) ‘Physical Artificial Intelligence for Aerial Robotics‘
- Oliver Brock (Technische Universität Berlin) ‘Embodiment as a Computational Paradigm’
Panel Discussion: Afternoon Session
Plenary Talk: Robert Shepherd (Cornell University) ‘The Chemo-Mechanical Embodiment of Energy and Sensing’
End of Day 2 discussion

Day 1 & 2 Summary: Fumiya Iida (University of Cambridge)

Short talks and Panel discussion:
- Jamie Paik (EPFL) ‘Reconfigurable Robots for Intelligent Interactions’
- Helmut Hauser (University of Bristol) ‘A Dynamical Approach to Embodied Intelligence’
- Kyujin Cho (Seoul National University) ‘Motion of soft Robots with Physically Embodied Intelligence’
- Li Wen (Beihang University) ‘Embodied Intelligence of a bio-inspired soft robot’
- Yoshiyuki Sankai (University of Tsukuba, CYBERDYNE Inc.) ‘Cybernetics: fusion of Human, Robots and Information systems: challenges for the future’
Panel discussion
Plenary Talk: Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University) ‘Constructive Approach for Interactive Robots and the Fundamental Issues’

Workshop Summary: Fumiya Iida (University of Cambridge)