Embodied Intelligence Summer School
The EMBODYi Projects
Summer School on Embodied Intelligence
September 20-24, 2010, Livorno, Italy
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. Paolo Dario
Prof. Paolo Dario received his Dr. Eng. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1977. He is currently Professor of Biomedical Robotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. He has been Visiting Professor at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, at the College de France, Paris, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France, and at Zhejiang University, China. He was the founder of the ARTS (Advanced Robotics Technologies and Systems) Laboratory and is currently the Co-ordinator of the CRIM (Center for the Research in Microengineering) Laboratory of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, where he supervises a team of about 70 researchers and Ph.D. students. He is also the Director of the Polo Sant’Anna Valdera of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. His main research interests are in the fields of medical robotics, bio-robotics, mechatronics and micro/nanoengineering, and specifically in sensors and actuators for the above applications, and in robotics for rehabilitation. He is the coordinator of many national and European projects, the editor of two books on robotics, and the author of more than 250 scientific papers (more than 150 on ISI journals). He is Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Board of many international journals. He has been a plenary invited speaker in many international conferences. Prof. Dario has served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in the years 2002-2003. He has been the General Chair of the BioRob’06 Conference (The First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics), of ICRA 2007 (International Conference on Robotics and Automation), ISG 2008 (the 6th Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology) and of the First National Congress of Bioengineering (GNB 2008). Prof. Dario is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the European Society on Medical and Biological Engineering, and a recipient of many honors and awards, such as the Joseph Engelberger Award. He is also a member of the Board of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR). In 2009 He has been appointed Fellow of the School of Engineering of the University of Tokyo.
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 Organizing Committee
