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SUMMARY:Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Building brain and body together
  in bio-inspired robots - Dr Fumiya Iida\, Department of Engineering
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CONTACT:Dr Dervila Glynn
DESCRIPTION:*Theme: Brains and Machines*\n\nAbstract:\n\nOur brains grow t
 ogether with our mechanical bodies\, and the developmental process of embo
 diment plays significant roles in shaping the structures of neuronal circu
 its and information processing. In this talk\, I will be introducing some 
 of our attempts to apply an engineering approach to the development of art
 ificial brains for bio-inspired robots of various kinds (e.g. walking\, ho
 pping\, crawling\, swimming\, and dancing robots)\, and discuss how this s
 ynthetic methodology could lead to our further understanding of embodied i
 ntelligence. \n\n\nShort biography:\nFumiya Iida is a Professor of Robotic
 s at Department of Engineering\, University of Cambridge\, the director of
  Bio-Inspired Robotics\, and the director of Cambridge Observatory for Hum
 an Machine Collaboration. He received his bachelor and master degrees in m
 echanical engineering at Tokyo University of Science (Japan\, 1999)\, and 
 Dr. sc. nat. in Informatics at University of Zurich (2006). In 2004 and 20
 05\, he was also engaged in biomechanics research of human locomotion at L
 ocomotion Laboratory\, University of Jena (Germany). From 2006 to 2009\, h
 e worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Computer Science and Artificia
 l Intelligence Laboratory\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA. 
 In 2006\, he awarded the Fellowship for Prospective Researchers from the S
 wiss National Science Foundation\, and in 2009\, the Swiss National Scienc
 e Foundation Professorship for an assistant professorship at ETH Zurich fr
 om 2009 to 2015. He was a recipient of the IROS2016 Fukuda Young Professio
 nal Award\, Royal Society Translation Award in 2017\, Tokyo University of 
 Science Award in 2021. His research interest includes biologically inspire
 d robotics\, embodied artificial intelligence\, and biomechanics\, where h
 e was involved in a number of research projects related to dynamic legged 
 locomotion\, dextrous and adaptive manipulation\, human-machine interactio
 ns\, and evolutionary robotics.\n\nURL: http://birlab.org/\n\nRegister in 
 advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItcOC
 rrTIjHd1bpKQuRLjY8jfXlTlC516E\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a co
 nfirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
LOCATION:Register on Zoom - link in abstract
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