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\n\t\t\tWEDNESDAY, JULY 16\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t<\/div>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Oral Session I & II \u2013 16th July, 10:30-11:00 & 11:30-13:00, Insects and plants<\/h4>\n

Chair: Prof. Tony Prescott & Dr. Isabella Fiorello<\/strong><\/h6>\n
[017] Visual Homing in Outdoor Robots Using Mushroom Body Circuits and Learning Walks (Gabriel G. Gattaux, Julien Serres, Franck Ruffier, Antoine Wystrach)<\/h5>\n
[011] Optical Waveguide-based Spider Web Enables Resilient Impact Detection and Localization (Dylan Wilson, Marco Pontin, Peter Walters, Perla Maiolino)<\/h5>\n
[019] Study of the Basin of Attraction in Bird Passive Balance (Roxane Vimbert, Mathieu Porez, Alessandro Colotti, Alexandre Goldsztejn, Christine Chevallereau)<\/h5>\n
[005] Thermo-responsive Closing and Reopening Artificial Venus Flytrap Utilizing Shape Memory Elastomers (Shun Yoshida, Qingchuan Song, Bastian E. Rapp, Thomas Speck, Falk Tauber)<\/h5>\n

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Oral Session III \u2013 16th July, 14:30-16:00, Ethics and responsibility<\/h4>\n

Chair: Dr. Rafael Mestre<\/strong><\/h6>\n
[020] Dual-modal Biohybrid Origami Robot Actuated by Selective Skeletal Muscle Activation (Lin Gao, Liuhe Li, Tuo Liang)<\/h5>\n
[012] Balancing Freedom and Responsibility to Accelerate Biohybrid Research (Sean Dudley, Andrew Maynard)<\/h5>\n
[021] Future Ethics: Principles for Governing Bio-Hybrid Robotics in a Post-Biological World (An\u00edbal M. Astobiza, Rafael Mestre, Sergey Astakhov)<\/h5>\n

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\n\t\t\tTHURSDAY, JULY 17\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t<\/div>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Oral Session IV \u2013 17th July, 10:00-11:00, Human emotion and cognition<\/h4>\n

Chair: Prof. Tony Prescott<\/strong><\/h6>\n
[043] Emotion Perception in Synthetic Aging: Divergent Insights from Human Perception and Algorithms (Hao Huang, Chaona Chen)<\/h5>\n
[048] Allostatic Control of Persistent States in Spiking Neural Networks for Perception and Computation (Aung Htet, Alejandro Jimenez Rodriguez, Sarah Hamburg, Alessandro Di Nuovo)<\/h5>\n

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Oral Session V \u2013 17th July, 11:30-13:00, Soft robotics<\/h4>\n

Chair: Prof. Roger Quinn<\/strong><\/h6>\n
[006] Design and Development of an Electronics-Free Earthworm Robot (Riddhi Das, Joscha Teichmann, Thomas Speck, Falk Tauber)<\/h5>\n
[050] A Highly Articulated Backbone for Soft Snake Robots (Yash Nandwana, Umit Sen, Gina Olson)<\/h5>\n
[015] A Bioinspired Aquatic Machine Mimicking Water Caltrop (Yuanquan Liu, Thomas Speck, Isabella Fiorello)<\/h5>\n

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Oral Session VI \u2013 17th July, 14:30-16:00, Muscles and actuation<\/h4>\n

Chair: Dr. Chaona Chen<\/strong><\/h6>\n
[053] Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity Organizes Type Ia Muscle Afferents in a Synthetic Nervous System (Mark Pupkiewicz, Manuel Mansilla, Banafsheh Rekabdar, Alexander Hunt)<\/h5>\n
[014] Proprioceptive Motors as Emulators for Musculoskeletal Dynamics (Clayton Jackson, Elijah Shew, Roger Quinn, William Nourse)<\/h5>\n
[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)<\/h5>\n

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\n\t\t\tFRIDAY, JULY 18\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\n\t<\/div>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Oral Session VII \u2013 18th July, 10:00-11:00, Applications<\/h4>\n

Chair: Dr. Chaona Chen<\/strong><\/h6>\n
[026] Training Neural Networks by Optimizing Neuron Positions (Laura Erb, Tommaso Boccato, Alexandru Vasilache, Juergen Becker, Nicola Toschi)<\/h5>\n
[059] Cybernetic Intervention in Stroke Neurorehabilitation (Dante Avi\u00f1\u00f3, Rajsuryan Singh, Anna Mura, Paul Verschure)<\/h5>\n

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Oral Session VIII \u2013 18th July, 11:30-13:00, Navigation<\/h4>\n

Chair: Dr. Michael Mangan<\/strong><\/h6>\n
[032] Navigating temporally changing magnetic environments using combinations of magnetic field properties (Brian Taylor, Nathan Mitchell)<\/h5>\n
[036] Trap avoidance: The Potential Neural Computations Underlying Integration of Appetitive and Aversive Visual Memories in Insect Navigation (Jiawen He, Xuelong Sun, Haiyang Li)<\/h5>\n
[027] A biomimetic collision detection visual neural model coordinating self-and-lateral inhibitions (Jiajun Huang, Ziyan Qin, Mengying Wang, Renyuan Liu, Qinbing Fu)<\/h5>\n

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Oral Session IX \u2013 18th July, 14:00-15:30, Legged locomotion<\/h4>\n

Chair: Dr. Alejandro Jim\u00e9nez Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong><\/h6>\n
[056] PB&J: Peanut Butter and Joints for Damped Articulation (Avery Williamson, Michael Bennington, Ravesh Sukhnandan, Yuemin Mao, Mrinali Nakhre, Victoria Webster-Wood)<\/h5>\n
[033] The Role of Passive Mechanics in Asymmetrically Actuated Bioinspired Joints (Erick Romo Rivera, Jordan Boyle, Samit Chakrabarty, Netta Cohen)<\/h5>\n
[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)<\/h5>\n

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