Video Lectures

This talk will trace the history of research in Living Machines from ancient times through to the present day, seeking to summarise some of the key principles, goals, and achievements of the Living Machines approach, with a focus on the role of robotics in advancing mechanistic explanations of living things including humans.

Perfection is not Nature’s goal. In the 3.8 billion years, Nature has evolved and selected billions of species with those characteristics that result more suitable for their environment and more likely to survive and to sustain life for generations.

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Biohybrid systems are often thought of as the result of biomimetics or bio-inspired approaches to find novel solutions for outstanding engineering problems.

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A major challenge in cognitive science and AI has been understand how autonomous agents might acquire and predict behavioral and mental states of other agents in the course of complex social interactions. How does such an agent model the goals, beliefs, and actions of other agents it interacts with? What are the computational principles to model a Theory of Mind?

The goal of our research is to model animal locomotion systems using computational neuromechanics and then apply their designs and even their materials to robots to improve their mechanical designs, autonomous behaviors, and locomotion.

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As robots move beyond manufacturing applications to less predictable environments, they can increasingly benefit, as animals do, from integrating sensing and control with the passive properties provided by particular combinations and arrangements of materials and mechanisms.

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The soft robotics workshop will be focused on answering five questions concerning the past and future of soft robots: how to produce them; make them move, sense and think; and how to educate using soft robots? With a concluding discussion about the fields challenges for the next 5 to 10 years.

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We will bring together biologists and roboticists to explore the design and control of living machines for the purpose of locomotion in the natural world. This workshop will cover both biomechanics and neural organization, and how the systems work together to achieve effective interactions with the physical environment.

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This workshop is a platform for eliciting plant functions that can inspire robotics as well as hybrid systems in which living plants become a key
component interacting with artificial technologies.

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How does science on invertebrates uniquely advance robotics?

Morphology, Motion, and Minds of Invertebrate-Inspired Robots aka No Backbone, No Problem. This workshop will bring together speakers in sensing, control, and morphology of invertebrate-inspired robots to discuss 10 years of progress in invertebrate robotics and future challenges in the field.

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This workshop will bring together speakers on active touch and vision perception, grasping and manipulation, neuromorphic vision systems, human-robot interaction, shared control and brain-computer interface, and cognitive architectures to discuss 10-years of progress in neuro-robotics and future challenges in the field.

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It’s Alive!: Biohybrid robots made from living materials.  This workshop will bring together speakers in tissue-engineered biohybrid robots, bacteriobots, and cyborgs to discuss 10-years of progress in biohybrid robotics and future challenges in the field.

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