Embodied Intelligence Summer School
The EMBODYi
Projects Summer School on Embodied Intelligence
September 20-24, 2010, Livorno, Italy
5 days of lectures, group work and discussion, poster session, technical and social tours
"The nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body."
The Embodied Intelligence Summer School will cover the concepts of the Embodied Intelligence theory through the integration of many disciplines viewpoint, as robotics, biology, neuroscience, medicine, physiology, psychology, as well as sociology, law, and ethics.
The "Embodied Intelligence" projects of the EMBODYi initiative (a FET Proactive Initiative Funded by EU Framework 7 ICT- 2007.8.5) attend to explore new forms of sensing and interacting, employing new design approaches and ICT with the address to the relationship between shape, function and the physical and social environment for the development of new intelligent physical artefacts. The projects stress the role of interaction of agents with the environment for adaptation process and open-ended learning (changes in morphology, shape, cognition, perception, cooperation), study new design principles for new robot architectures based on the deeper understanding of the role of form and material properties in shaping behaviour or develop smart components and techniques for purposive agents where behaviour is not strictly program but robustly emerges from the interaction of the various components, or with the environment.
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