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Autonomous (re)Production, Learning and Bio-inspired Robotics workshop

York, UK, 17-19th October 2022

Autonomous (re)Production, Learning and Bio-inspired Robotics

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The Autonomous (re)Production, Learning and Bio-inspired Robotics workshop will be held in the historic city of York. The workshop aims to highlight and discuss emerging trends and future directions in the field of robotics, and will feature invited position papers from world-leading researchers across the field.

The technical programme will focus upon the potential for future developments within the field of evolutionary robotics, addressing areas such as:

  • Novel methods for the simultaneous evolution of morphology and control
  • Novel methods for facilitating learning and adaptation during the lifetime
  • Evolution of learnability in a robot population
  • Investigating the balance between morphological intelligence and brain intelligence
  • Robot evolution in hardware
  • Evolution of morphologies using novel materials
  • Simulation of soft robots
  • Closing the reality gap
  • Evolving behavioural/morphological diversity within a robotic eco-system
  • Issues related to manufacturability and viability of robotic genotypes Surrogate methods for fitness evaluations
Extended versions of the best submissions will be considered for a Special Issue of the Frontiers in Robotics and AI after a further refereeing process.

Attending the workshop

We welcome attendees from all areas of the evolutionary robotics community. Thanks to funding from the EPSRC, registration is free for a limited number of places. We also have a number of student bursaries available, which will contribute towards the travel and accommodation costs of registered students who are presenting at the workshop.

Getting to the Workshop

The workshop is being held in the Institute for Safe Autonomy Building, located on the University of York's new Heslington East campus.

To reach Heslington East by public transport, take bus lines 66 or 67, both of which run between the railway station and the University, and get off at the last stop. The journey takes approximately 15-20 minutes. More instructions to get to the building can be found here.

Submissions due:

Monday 19th September 2022

Invited speakers

Josh Bongard
University of Vermont

Barbara Webb
University of Edinburgh

Roderich Gross
University of Sheffield

Emma Hart
Edinburgh Napier University

Agoston Eiben
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Sanaz Mostaghim
Otto von Guericke University

Andrew Philippides
University of Sussex

Phil Husbands
University of Sussex

Alan Winfield
University of the West of England

Organisers

Andy Tyrrell
University of York

Emma Hart
Edinburgh Napier University

Alan Winfield
University of the West of England

Jon Timmis
University of Sunderland

Agoston Eiben
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Edgar Buchanan
University of York

Robert Woolley
University of York