WS#60 Bioinspired Robotics for Bridging Natural and Artificial Intelligence

WS#60 Bioinspired Robotics for Bridging Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Florian Röhrbein (Neurorobotics, Chemnitz University of Technology), Dr. Pablo Lanillos (Neuro AI and Robotics Group, Spanish National Research Council), Dr. Iñaki Fernández (Industrial and Digital Systems, Fundación CARTIF), Dr. Marvin Wright (Strathclyde University)Room 14-16

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

Organisation of the WS

Ice-breaking Event: Talk to your neighbors and find out why they are here!

Report about TG coordinators meeting, e.g. MIRO board

Interactive Presentations & Moderated Discussion

Intended outcome

  • New insights about how bioinspired approaches can help to solve current society challenges, provide new solutions and open new markets
  • Understand the state-of-the-art of biorobots and identify new investment opportunities
  • Learn about funding schemes and networking in brain-inspired AI and biorobotics

Speakers, Panelists, etc

  • Prof. Dr. Florian Röhrbein (TU Chemnitz)
  • Dr. Pablo Lanillos (Spanish National Research Council) - Moderator
  • Dr. Iñaki Fernández, Fundación CARTIF (Spain)
  • Achim Fischer (Festo) - Presenter
  • Prof. Richard Duro (University of Coruña) - Panelist
  • Prof. Stéphane Doncieux, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (Sorbonne University) - Panelist
  • Kaspar Althoefer, Professor of Robotics Engineering at Queen Mary University of London
  • Dr Liang Li from MPI Animal Behaviour
  • Prof. Dr. Yulia Sandamirskaya - ZHAW

Topic Groups and/or Innovation networks involved

TG bio-inspired robotics

Projects involved

"Pathfinder Awareness Inside" EIC projects (METATOOL)

Further information

- brain-inspired and bio-inspired AI

- brain-based HW (like neuromorphics) and SW (like CPGs, neural fields) for robots 

- bio-inspired sensing & actuation

- cognition for robots
- adaptive behavior and learning
- evolutionary and swarm robotics
- bio-inspired locomotion (terrestrial, aerial, aquatic)
- applications of bio-inspired robots

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
Wed 16:00 - 17:20
Bio-inspired Robotics, Embodied Intelligence, Neurorobotics