ORAL SESSIONS

Oral Session I & II – 16th July, 10:30-11:00 & 11:30-13:00, Insects and plants

[017] Visual Homing in Outdoor Robots Using Mushroom Body Circuits and Learning Walks (Gabriel G. Gattaux, Julien Serres, Franck Ruffier, Antoine Wystrach)

[011] Optical Waveguide-based Spider Web Enables Resilient Impact Detection and Localization (Dylan Wilson, Marco Pontin, Peter Walters, Perla Maiolino)

[019] Study of the Basin of Attraction in Bird Passive Balance (Roxane Vimbert, Mathieu Porez, Alessandro Colotti, Alexandre Goldsztejn, Christine Chevallereau)

[005] Thermo-responsive Closing and Reopening Artificial Venus Flytrap Utilizing Shape Memory Elastomers (Shun Yoshida, Qingchuan Song, Bastian E. Rapp, Thomas Speck, Falk Tauber)

Oral Session III – 16th July, 14:30-16:00, Ethics and responsibility

[020] Dual-modal Biohybrid Origami Robot Actuated by Selective Skeletal Muscle Activation (Lin Gao, Liuhe Li, Tuo Liang)

[012] Balancing Freedom and Responsibility to Accelerate Biohybrid Research (Sean Dudley, Andrew Maynard)

[021] Future Ethics: Principles for Governing Bio-Hybrid Robotics in a Post-Biological World (Aníbal M. Astobiza, Rafael Mestre, Sergey Astakhov)

Oral Session IV – 17th July, 10:00-11:00, Human emotion and cognition

[043] Emotion Perception in Synthetic Aging: Divergent Insights from Human Perception and Algorithms (Hao Huang, Chaona Chen)

[048] Allostatic Control of Persistent States in Spiking Neural Networks for Perception and Computation (Aung Htet, Alejandro Jimenez Rodriguez, Sarah Hamburg, Alessandro Di Nuovo)

Oral Session V – 17th July, 11:30-13:00, Soft robotics

[006] Design and Development of an Electronics-Free Earthworm Robot (Riddhi Das, Joscha Teichmann, Thomas Speck, Falk Tauber)

[050] A Highly Articulated Backbone for Soft Snake Robots (Yash Nandwana, Umit Sen, Gina Olson)

[015] A Bioinspired Aquatic Machine Mimicking Water Caltrop (Yuanquan Liu, Thomas Speck, Isabella Fiorello)

Oral Session VI – 17th July, 14:30-16:00, Muscles and actuation

[053] Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity Organizes Type Ia Muscle Afferents in a Synthetic Nervous System (Mark Pupkiewicz, Manuel Mansilla, Banafsheh Rekabdar, Alexander Hunt)

[014] Proprioceptive Motors as Emulators for Musculoskeletal Dynamics (Clayton Jackson, Elijah Shew, Roger Quinn, William Nourse)

[049] Musculoskeletal Dynamic Simulation of Frog Jumping Induced by the Interaction Between Leg Kicking and Trunk Snap-Through Buckling (Keiryo Kasai, Kyo Mizukose, Go Kawahara, Masahiro Omura, Masahiro Shimizu)

Oral Session VII – 18th July, 10:00-11:00, Applications

[026] Training Neural Networks by Optimizing Neuron Positions (Laura Erb, Tommaso Boccato, Alexandru Vasilache, Juergen Becker, Nicola Toschi)

[059] Cybernetic Intervention in Stroke Neurorehabilitation (Dante Aviñó, Rajsuryan Singh, Anna Mura, Paul Verschure)

Oral Session VIII – 18th July, 11:30-13:00, Navigation

[032] Navigating temporally changing magnetic environments using combinations of magnetic field properties (Brian Taylor, Nathan Mitchell)

[036] Trap avoidance: The Potential Neural Computations Underlying Integration of Appetitive and Aversive Visual Memories in Insect Navigation (Jiawen He, Xuelong Sun, Haiyang Li)

[027] A biomimetic collision detection visual neural model coordinating self-and-lateral inhibitions (Jiajun Huang, Ziyan Qin, Mengying Wang, Renyuan Liu, Qinbing Fu)

Oral Session IX – 18th July, 14:00-15:30, Legged locomotion

[056] PB&J: Peanut Butter and Joints for Damped Articulation (Avery Williamson, Michael Bennington, Ravesh Sukhnandan, Yuemin Mao, Mrinali Nakhre, Victoria Webster-Wood)

[033] The Role of Passive Mechanics in Asymmetrically Actuated Bioinspired Joints (Erick Romo Rivera, Jordan Boyle, Samit Chakrabarty, Netta Cohen)

[055] Bio-inspired Open Knee Joint with Ligamentous Constraints and Antagonistic Actuation (Shinsuke Nakashima, Yilun Sun, Julius Ambros, Christoph Rehekampff, Qi An, Atsushi Yamashita, Tim C. Lueth)