Embodied Intelligence Summer School

Second Summer School on Embodied Intelligence

"Simulation and Modelling within Embodied Intelligence"
EMBODYⁱ & Lampetra Projects Summer School
June, 27- July, 1, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland

Scientific Committee

Prof. Rolf Pfeifer

Prof. Rolf Pfeifer is the director Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at University of Zurich. He has organized a number of conferences and research projects such as "The 50th Anniversary World Summit of Artificial Intelligence" in Switzerland, 2006. He is also on the evaluation and consulting board of the "Mobilligence" project in Japan. His research interests are in the areas of embodiment, biorobotics, artificial evolution and morphogenesis, self-reconfiguration and self-repair, and educational technology. He is the author of the book "Understanding Intelligence" (with C. Scheier). A popular science book, entitled "How the body shapes the way we think: a new view of intelligence," has recently been published by MIT Press (with Josh Bongard).

Prof. Cecilia Laschi

Prof. Cecilia Laschi is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy. She graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1993 and received the Ph. D. in Robotics from the University of Genoa in 1998. Since 1992 she is with the ARTS Lab (Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory) of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy. From July 2001 to June 2002 she was visiting researcher at the Humanoid Robotics Institute of the Waseda University in Tokyo, as JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellow. Her research interests are in the field of biorobotics. Starting from basic robotics research, she has been investigated bioinspired solutions for personal robotics and bionics. She has been working in neuro-robotics, that is the application of robotics in neuroscience research. She is currently working on biomimetics, investigating animal and vegetal systems from an engineering point of view and with engineering tools, and designing robotic replicas that can fully explain the biological working principles and mechanisms. In the field of Service Robotics, she is working in the development of networked robots for applications in urban hygiene and in water monitoring. She is carrying out research activities in the field on neurodevelopmental engineering, by designing and developing instrumented toys for monitoring sensory-motor capabilities in infants. She has been and currently is involved in many National and EU-funded projects, in the field of biorobotics. She has authored/co-authored more than 90 papers, appeared in international journals and conference proceedings. She is Guest Co-Editor of a Special Issue of the journal Autonomous Robots on Bioinspired Sensory-Motor Coordination and of a Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions of Robotics on Human-Robot Interaction. She is member of the IEEE, of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, and of the Robotics & Automation Society, in which she co-chairs the Technical Committee on Human-Robot Interaction and Coordination. She is the Coordinator of the OCTOPUS Integrating Project.

Organizers

Cecilia Laschi OCTOPUS IP Coordinator

Chiara Bartolozzi ANGELS Coordinator

Frederic Boyer EMORPH Coordinator

Eugenio Guglielmelli EVRYON Coordinator

Lijin Aryananda LOCOMORPH Coordinator

Alin Albu-Schaeffer VIACTORS Coordinator

Local and Technical Organizing Committee

Laura Margheri

Kohei Nakajima

Sladjana Ravlija