Federico Pagnozzi

Off-line neuro-evolution produces robot swarms whose performance in simulation may not transfer to real word. Here the authors identify overfitting as main cause nature.com/articles/s4146… @Ken_n7 @ligotant1 @mbirattari @IRIDIA_ULB @ULBRecherche @frsFNRS @ERC_Research @Demiurge_ULB

New TechRep by @christian0400 T. Stützle @MarcoDorigo_ULB "Title: Cuckoo search ≡ (μ + λ)-evolution strategy – A rigorous analysis of an algorithm that has been misleading the research community for more than 10 years and nobody seems to have noticed" on iridia.ulb.ac.be/IridiaTrSeries/

Last invited keynote of #ANTS2020! "The Collective Intelligence of Army Ants, and the Robots They Inspire" Radhika Nagpal @robothika Paraphrase: "In nature, collective intelligence often works so well, that a collective can almost behave as if it were a single organism:"

We've started! We'll live tweet the online conf. presentations in a thread👍 1st session on Robotics, chaired by @vitotrianni: "Collective Decision Making in Swarm Robotics with Distributed Bayesian Hypothesis Testing" by Q. Shan and @SanazMostaghim link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Quantum reality is either weirdly different or it collapses arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Archaeologists find a way to look for ancient beer arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Unvaccinated Samoans should identify themselves with red flags, officials say arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Measles outbreak spurred by anti-vaxxers shuts down Samoan government arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Let's watch that again!

Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now gone to us arstechnica.com/science/2019/0… by @SciGuySpace

Fixing photosynthesis by engineering it to recycle a toxic mistake arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Important Working Lunch instructional slide RE introducing yourself

In a robot swarm, the ability to sequence tasks can emerge from the interaction of reactive individual robots twitter.com/SciRobotics/st…

Martian haze, all around. The dust storm now circles the whole planet. The measure of atmospheric opacity, or "tau," is over 8.0 here in Gale Crater—the highest I've ever seen. Still safe. Science continues. go.nasa.gov/2MJh1fB

Maria Agnesi, the Greatest Female Mathematician You've Never Heard of scientificamerican.com/article/maria-… via @sciam

Getting some air, Atlas? youtu.be/vjSohj-Iclc via @YouTube

Video: Robotic muscle and sensitive polymer fingers arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

In wars with termites, ants rescue and care for their wounded arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…

Insane drug cocktails in India net drug makers millions and pose global threat arstechnica.com/?post_type=pos…