Lecture
Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
- Date
- Wednesday 20 April 2022
- Time
- Address
- Online
The session features an invited talk by Professor Josh Bongard titled: ‘From rigid to soft to biological robots’.
Abstract:
Organisms and robots must find ways to return to a viable state when confronted with unexpected internal surprise such as injury, or external surprise, such as a new environment. Rigid robots can only confront such challenges by adapting behaviorally. Soft robots have the added option of morphological adaptation: changing shape, material properties, topology, plurality, and/or mass. Finally, biological robots – machines built completely from biological tissues – inherit the protean nature of their donor organisms, providing them with forms of morphological and behavioral adaptation beyond even today’s most morphologically plastic soft robots. In this talk I will review our recent efforts to create biological robots, and how their protean natures have led us to rethink how we approach soft robotics, embodied cognition, and intelligence in general.
More information can be found here: https://event.cwi.nl/jolea/blog/fifth-lecture.html.
The series is organized by a team from four universities, initiated by prof. dr. Thomas Bäck (Leiden University), prof. dr. Peter A.N. Bosman (CWI), prof. dr. Gusz Eiben (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and dr. ir. Dirk Thierens (Utrecht University).
