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WORKSHOPS

July 28  9:15  – 14:00   [CEST]

Living Machines Workshops Program

CONFERENCE

July 29-30  9:30  – 17:00   [CEST]

The Conference and Poster Sessions will take place online. LM2020 Program

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July 29

9:00 REGISTRATION [CEST]

9:20-9:30 - WELCOME

9:30 - 10:30 PLENARY TALK Auke Ijspeert
Using Biorobots to Investigate Extant and Extinct Animal Locomotion

10:30 - 10:55 Standing on the water: stability mechanisms of snakes on free surface. Johann Herault, Etienne Clement, Jonathan Brossilon, Seth LaGrange, Vincent Lebastard, Frederic Boyer

10:55 - 11:20 Robophysical modeling of bilaterally activated and soft limbless locomotors. Perrin Schiebel, Marine Maisonneuve, Kelimar Diaz, Jennifer Rieser, Daniel Goldman

11:20 - 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 - 12:05 Biomimetic Design of a Soft Robotic Fish for High Speed Locomotion. Sander van den Berg, Rob Scharff, Zoltan Rusak, Jun Wu

12:05 - 12:30 Biohybrid wind energy generators based on living plants. Fabian Meder, Marc Thielen, Giovanna Adele Naselli, Silvia Taccola, Thomas Speck, Barbara Mazzolai

12:30 - 13:30 Poster Spotlight Session 1 (14 Posters)

13:30 -15:00 Lunch break

15:00 -15:25 Programming Material Intelligence: An Additive Fabrication Strategy for Self-Shaping Biohybrid Components. Tiffany Cheng, Dylan Wood, Xiang Wang, Philip Yuan, Achim Menges

15:25 - 15:50 Multi-material 3D-printer for rapid prototyping of bio-inspired soft robotic elements. Stefan Conrad, Thomas Speck, Falk Esser.

16:00 -17:00PLENARY TALK Bas Overvelde
Adaptive Behavior Through Decentralized Reinforced Learning In Soft Robotic Matter

July 30

9:30 -10:30  [CEST]

PLENARY TALK Li Zhaoping
"Looking" and "Seeing" in Vision and Other Senses In Man, Animals and Machines

10:30 - 10:55 Haptic Object Identification for Advanced Manipulation Skills Volker Gabler, Korbinia Maier, Satoshi Endo, Dirk Wollherr

10:55 - 11:20 From models of cognition to robot control and back using spiking neural networks. Stefan Iacob, Johan Kwisthout, Serge Thill

11:20 - 11:40 Coffee break

11:40 - 12:05 Fast Reverse Replays of Recent Spatiotemporal Trajectories in a Robotic Hippocampal Model. Matthew Whelan, Tony Prescott, Eleni Vasilaki

12:05 - 12:30 Modeling the Dynamic Sensory Discharges of Insect Campaniform Sensilla. Nicholas Szczecinski, Sasha Zill, Chris Dallmann, Roger Quinn

12:30-13:30 Poster Spotlight Session 2 (13 Posters)

13:30 -15:00 Lunch break

15:00 - 15:25 Spatio-temporal Memory for Navigation in a Mushroom Body Model. Le Zhu, Michael Mangan, Barbara Webb

15:25 - 15:50 Snapshot Navigation In The Wavelet Domain. Stefan Meyer, Thomas Nowotny, Paul Graham, Alex Dewar, Andrew Philippides

16:00 - 17:00 - PLENARY TALK Holk Cruse
From Walking To Cognition, a Decentralized, Insect-Inspired Hexapod Controller

17:00 - 17:30 Awards