Speakers list

Maarja Kruusmaa	Tony Prescott	Aaron Sloman
Federico Carpi	Frank Bremmer	Auke IJspeert
Huosheng Hu	Frank Grasso	Maria Carrozza
Mitra Hartmann	Joseph Ayers	David Lentink
Andy Phillipides	Yoseph Bar-Cohen	Kevin O'Regan
Hillel Chiel	Jon H. Kaas	Paul Verschure
Dom Massaro	Frank Grasso	Noel Sharkey
Roberto Cingolani	David Lane

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Talks

Here you can find video registrations of the 2011 talks and links to interviews with the speakers. Registered participants also have access to papers and other details.

How Fish KISS: A Reductionist Approach to a Biomimetic Design of an Underwater Fish Robot - Maarja Kruusmaa

Biomimetic robotics with a light touch - Tony Prescott

How to combine science and engineering to solve philosophical problems - Aaron Sloman

Electromechanically active polymer artificial muscles for future soft robotics and biomimetics - Federico Carpi

Spatial representations during eye movements - Frank Bremmer

Control of locomotion using central pattern generators: from biology to robotics - Auke IJspeert

Biomimetics - An evolutionary transformation from biological systems to intelligent robots - Huosheng Hu

Biologically-inspired balancing of inherited and learned behaviors in mobile robots - Frank Grasso

Towards human-robot symbiosis - New perspectives for assistive and rehabilitation robotics - Maria Carrozza

Biological Modeling and Biomimetics: Some Thoughts from Study of the Rat Vibrissal (Whisker) System - Mitra Hartmann

Synthetic Neuroethology - Joseph Ayers

Biofluiddynamics of flight as an inspiration for design - David Lentink

Mimicking the elegance of insect behavior: a case study in visual navigation - Andy Phillipides

Humanlike Robots - The ultimate challenge to mimicking biology in a synthetic form - Yoseph Bar-Cohen

How to Make a Robot that Feels - Kevin O'Regan

Towards Autonomous Robots: Lessons from Biology - Hillel Chiel

The Evolution of the Large, Complex Human Brain - Jon H. Kaas

Biologically Constrained Learning - Paul Verschure

Technology Assisted Reading Acquisition (TARA): Acquiring Literacy Naturally - Dom Massaro

Exploring cephalopod object manipulation: modeling studies of neural control of Octopus suckers and squid tentacles - Frank Grasso - Frank Grasso

Trading rights: the ethical marketplace of robotics - Noel Sharkey

Nanotechnologies for humans and humanoids - Roberto Cingolani

Dolphin Inspired Sonar Development for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - David Lane