Questions to be answered

• What are current trends at the intersection of neuroscience, embodied AI and robotics?
• What is the industry's perspective and how can we reduce existing gaps to academia?

Description

This workshop explores how bioinspired approaches can help to solve current society challenges, provide new solutions and open new markets. Experts from academia and industry will present their perspective and discuss with the audience. Topics presented will include:

• Insect-inspired Perception and Navigation
• On-line Adaptation as Challenge in AI Large Models for Robotics
• Green AI via Neuromorphic Computing
• From Sim to Real: Automated Acquisition of Robot Behaviors

A panel and moderated discussion involves the audience and will address questions such as how to benefit from current push on GenAI and large Foundation Models to bridge physical/hardware and brain/software parts through bioinspiration. We will talk about the European start-up landscape in bio-inspired robotics and also help identify potential funding schemes relevant for the area of the topic group.

Organisation of the WS

• 16:00 - 16:05 Welcome & Ice-breaking Event (5 Min)
• 16:05 - 16:10 Update about Topic Group activities (5 Min)
• 16:10 - 16:55 Interactive Presentations (45 Min)
• 16:55 - 17:15 Panel (20 Min)
• 17:15 - 17:20 Conclusion & next steps (5 Min)

Intended outcome

• Understand the state-of-the-art of biorobots and identify new opportunities
• Networking in brain-inspired AI and biorobotics between academia and industry

Speakers, Panelists, etc

• Prof. Dr. Florian Röhrbein, TU Chemnitz, Germany
• Dr. Pablo Lanillos, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
• Dr. Iñaki Fernández, Fundación CARTIF, Spain
• Achim Fischer, Head of Development at FESTO, Germany
• Prof. Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London, U.K.
• Prof. Richard Duro, University of Coruña, Spain
• Prof. Stéphane Doncieux, Sorbonne University, France
• Mike Mangan, VP of Research at OPTERAN, Edinburgh, U.K.
• Dr Liang Li, MPI Animal Behaviour, Germany
• Prof. Dr. Yulia Sandamirskaya, ZHAW, Switzerland

Topic Groups and/or Innovation networks involved

TG bio-inspired robotics

Projects involved

Pathfinder Awareness Inside EIC project METATOOL

Further information

Organisers

• Prof. Dr. Florian Röhrbein (Neurorobotics, Chemnitz University of Technology), florian.roehrbein@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
• Dr. Pablo Lanillos (Neuro AI and Robotics Group, Spanish National Research Council), p.lanillos@csic.es
• Dr. Iñaki Fernández (Industrial and Digital Systems, Fundación CARTIF), inafer@cartif.es
• Dr. Marvin Wright (Strathclyde University), marvin.wright@strath.ac.uk
• Prof. Dr. Poramate Manoonpong (Vidyasirimedhi Institute VISTEC, Thailand & SDU, Denmark), poma@mmmi.sdu.dk