Venue:
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
University of Freiburg, Germany
Albertstraße 19, 79104 Freiburg
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		Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023
12:00		Registration
13:25		FRIAS opening speech
13:50		Opening remarks
		Session 1 Chair: Katharina Lischka
14:00	Andrew Straw	High Resolution Tracking of Insects Using Fast Lock-On Tracking Click here for Abstract
14:30	Jennifer Li & Drew Robson	How the brain maps the world: emergence of spatial cognition in the vertebrate brain Click here for Abstract
15:00		Flash talks – Round 1
	Falk Tauber	Thermoresponsive artificial Venus Flytrap demonstrator
	Torsten Fietzek	Biologically-inspired motor learning on the iCub robot
	Fabian Wurzberger	Temporal goal abstraction for goal-conditioned reinforcement learning
15:30		Coffee break
16:00	Anna Stoeckl	To see or not to see – Insect vision in dynamic light environments Click here for Abstract
16:30	Florian Roehrbein	Recent Trends in Neurorobotics Click here for Abstract
17:00		Flash talks – Round 2
	Martin Stefanec	RoboRoyale – studying a superorganism’s central figure through robotics
	Zeqiang Zhang	Learning Contrastively: A Novel Goal-Conditioned Supervised Learning Approach with Dual-evaluation Mechanism
	Peter Kappel	FDM printed pre-curved soft pneumatic bending actuators for bioinspired designs with ligaments and tendons
17:30		Poster session 1
19:00		Social activity
		Thursday, November 23rd, 2023
		Session 2 Chair: Aida Maric
9:00	Barbara Mazzolai	Soft Robotics: Learning from the Natural World Click here for Abstract
9:30	Bilge Baytekin	Building Plant Robots – Inspirations from Chemistry Click here for Abstract
10:00		Flash talks – Round 3
	Edoardo Milana	Towards Snapping Inflatable Metamaterials for Mechanical Intelligence in Soft Machines
	Michael Harrap	Use of Robotic Tools to Investigate Floral Humidity Traits
	Thang Vo-Doan (Online)	Insect-machine hybrid systems: using insects as robot platforms
10:30		Coffee break
11:00	Thomas Speck	Plant-inspired soft robots and soft machines for applications in engineering, architecture and medicine Click here for Abstract
11:30	Michaela Eder	Active plant materials and structures Click here for Abstract
12:00		Lunch break
		Session 3 Chair: Edoardo Milana
14:00	Mirko Kovac	Bio-inspired Drones for Sustainability Sciences Click here for Abstract
14:30	Matej Karasek	Design and challenges of hover-capable flapping wing drones Click here for Abstract
15:00		Flash talks – Round 4
	Florian Röhrbein	Acquisition and transfer of robot navigation habits
	Agustín Meneses	Biologically Plausible Reinforcement Learning Model for Motor Control
	Sabrina Gennis	Robotic manipulation of plant cells
15:30		Coffee break
16:00	Josie Hughes	Embodied Intelligence Through Biological Inspiration Click here for Abstract
16:30	Michael Lutter (Online)	Inductive Biases for Machine Learning in Robotics and Control Click here for Abstract
17:00		Poster session 2
19:00		Dinner
		Friday, November 24th, 2023
		Session 4 Chair: Timo Oess
9:00	David Labonte	Optimal design in musculoskeletal systems across scales Click here for Abstract
9:30	Mariana Medina Sánchez	Magnetic micro tools for assisted reproduction Click here for Abstract
10:00		Coffee break
10:30	Abhinav Valada	Rethinking Robot Learning for Autonomy at Scale Click here for Abstract
11:00	Claudius Gros	Emerging inter-limb coordination for muscle-driven robots Click here for Abstract
11:30		Closing remarks

Poster session 1 (Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023, 17:30 -19:00)

Poster session 2 (Thursday, November 23rd, 2023, 17:00 -19:00)