Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab

We are attending #ICMIND in #Xiamen, China. We'll present or work on pleiotropy in body-brain evolution of simulated agents. 👉🏼 medvet.inginf.units.it/publications/2…

Great and inspiring keynote at ALIFE-CIS by @mnzluca on the foundational work by Nils Barricelli, an italian-norwegian researcher pioneering artificial life @HirokiSayama @NehanivCL

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- E. W. Dijkstra (thanks to @drmichaellevin)

🤖 Looking at these robot navigation tasks - TE captures the full trajectory, not just endpoints. The archives reveal exactly where successful robots walked, giving much better insights than traditional ME! 🔍

In March 2025 I am starting a Planetary Geology course at @UniTrieste. It is an MSc course, but students of all walks are welcome. It will be taught in English. Please help spread the word in the neighboring regions (also in Croatia, Slovenia, Austria...).

Today we hosted Carlos M. Fonseca from #cisuc @UnivdeCoimbra, currently visiting @UniTrieste for a relaxed exchange of research ideas.

What if robots could specialize like living organisms? 🧠 In our new paper, we explore how totipotency—a trait of living cells—can aid body-brain co-evolution in modular soft robots. Curious how Hebbian learning unlocks modular specialization? 🧵 👉 giorgia-nadizar.github.io/#/publications…

@jlizier @ieeessci And we will have a fantastic keynote ieee-ssci.org/?ui=keynote-sp…

📢 EXTENDED Evo* 2025 submission deadline: 15 November 2024!

Call for late-breaking, posters(abstracts) & J2C submissions for IEEE ALIFE-CIS (IEEE Symposium on CI in Artificial Life & Cooperative Intelligent Systems) - due *10th Dec* - part of IEEE SSCI @ieeessci ieee-ssci.org/?ui=ci-in-arti… Trondheim Mar 17-20 #alife #artificiallife #SSCI2025

🚀 You can still submit your papers for EvoStar 2025! Don’t miss your chance — submissions are open until November 1st! Swipe through to discover why attending in person in the charming city of Trieste could make your conference experience truly unforgettable.

Our just-published review article about "robots that evolve on demand". With colleagues Frank Fish, Robert Baines, and @TheFaboratory's director Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio. drive.google.com/file/d/1TszQY9…

We just welcomed our new lab member 🤖🐩 (still unnamed...). Together with friends from the #IndustrialAutomationLab, this guy will help us do more cutting-edge #research on data-driven/learning-based control. We thank @DiaUnits for the support!

📢 Second Call for Papers: EvoStar 2025 📢 📆 Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024 📌 Conference Dates: April 23-25, 2025 🇮🇹 Venue: Trieste, Italy Accepted papers will be published in Springer Nature’s LNCS series. 📚✨ Follow the updates: evostar.org/2025/

A fruitful collaboration between @Unibo and @DiaUnits-@UniTrieste. Much more successful than this other collaboration: youtube.com/watch?v=Ne8Sbo…

@pbmandrab presented our study on "Cooperation in Evolved Modular Soft 🤖 Robots": identical soft agents can be evolved to 🫱🏼‍🫲🏻collectively perform a task that is undoable by single agents. Many questions and ideas for further research from #wivace2024! 👉🏼 medvet.inginf.units.it/publications/2…

This was the first conference talk by @el_saliby, who is completing his master degree at @DiaUnits in weeks. The paper is a groupwork by @GNadizar, @EricaSalvato1, @SilverHaxt, and @EricMedvetTs. #bravitutti! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

We are in 🇧🇪#Namur at #wivace2024 where @el_saliby just presented our work on "Factors Impacting 🏞️Landscape Ruggedness in 🤖Control Problems" (👉🏼 medvet.inginf.units.it/publications/2…): brilliant presentation, bravissimo the speaker!

Second very full and exciting day of @GeccoConf 🦎 I found the official mascotte and annoyed it for multiple pics 🐨 I presented our nice paper from @EralLabTs 🎤 I had a nice dinner with the graph GP gang 🥘 And I finally took my traditional badge pic with @gpietrop_ ✨️

Test cases for training #GeneticProgramming agents are difficult + costly to generate 🤯💸 What if we could leverage #LargeLanguageModels for this task? 💡 We tried it in our @GeccoConf paper 👉 giorgia-nadizar.github.io/#/publications… 👀 Spoiler: adding curriculum learning works wonders 💥