EI’21 Conference proceedings

Interested in an in-person event? Please attend RoboSoft2022 EI Workshop in Edinburgh UK.

WELCOME TO THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE TO BE HELD ONLINE ON MARCH 23-25, 2022

This free event brings together a wide range of speakers to discuss the many challenges and opportunities in Embodied Intelligence research! The workshop 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.

The preliminary programme can be accessed here.

We want to use this conference to answer some of the key open questions relating to EI, this includes, but is not limited to:

• 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 curriencies?
• How can we measure complexity?
• What can not be done by computation intelligence?
• What ethical questions arise from EI?

SPEAKERS

The conference brings together speakers from across wide number of disciplines to facilitate discussion on the Embodied Intelligence, and the future of this topic.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Joanna Bryson, Hertie School of Governance, Germany	Kohei Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kenji Doya, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan	Katherine Kuchenbecker, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Allison Okamura, Stanford University, USA	Daniel Wolpert, Columbia University, USA
	Ryota Kanai, Araya Inc, Japan

SHORT TALKS

Amanda Prorok, University of Cambridge, UK	Koh Hosoda, Osaka University, Japan
Antonio Bicchi, University of Pisa, Italy	Maki Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Auke Ijspeert, EPFL, Switzerland	Marco Hutter, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Cosimo Della Santina, TU Delft, Netherland	Mike Tolley, UC San Diego, USA
Cynthia Sung, University of Pennsylvania, USA	Perla Maiolino, Oxford University, UK
Dana Damian, University of Sheffield, UK	Peter Xu, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Darwin Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong	Rob Wood, Harvard University, USA
Etienne Burdet, Imperial College, UK	Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge, UK
Josh Bongard, University of Vermont, USA	Seppe Terryn, Vrije University Brussels, Belgium
Kanako Harada, University of Tokyo, Japan	Tamar Makin, UCL, UK
Kenji Suzuki, University of Tsukuba, Japan	Tetsuya Ogata, Waseda University, Japan
Kenjiro Tadakuma, Tohoku University, Japan	Thomas Speck, University of Freiburg, Germany
Kirstin Petersen, Cornell University, USA	Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Imperial College, UK