Events: Exhibition, Conferences, Seminars and Workshops ‒ LIS ‐ EPFL

On this page you find some public events that members of our lab have recently co-organized or where the results of our research have been displayed.
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		Festival de Robotique EPFL, 28 April, 2011 The “Festival de Robotique” aims to bring EPFL activities in Robotics to the general public and in particular, kids. The LIS will be running a booth on bio-inspired flying robots.
		Festival de Robotique EPFL, 29-30 May, 2010 The “Festival de Robotique” aims to bring EPFL activities in Robotics to the general public and in particular, kids. This year, it is organized commonly with the “portes ouvertes” so that there is even much more to discover ! The LIS will be running a booth on bio-inspired flying robots.
		Special Session on Evolutionary Robotics – IEEE CEC 2010 Barcelona, Spain, 18th-23rd July, 2010 The objective of this special session is to assemble a set of high-quality original contributions that reflect and advance the state-of-the-art in the area of Evolutionary Robotics, with an emphasis on the cross-fertilization between ER and the aforementioned research areas, ranging from theoretical analysis to real-life applications. Dario Floreano and Steffen Wischmann are co-organizers.
		Festival de Robotique EPFL, 16 May, 2009 The “Festival de Robotique” aims to bring EPFL activities in Robotics to the general public and in particular, kids. The LIS will be running a booth on bio-inspired flying robots.
		1st Swiss UAS Day Science Park at EPFL, 27th March, 2009 The 1st Swiss UAS Day aims at fostering collaborations among Unmanned Aerial System stakeholders. Jean-Christophe Zufferey is an organizer.
		Special Session on Evolutionary Robotics – IEEE CEC 2009 Trondheim, Norway, 18th-21st May, 2009 The objective of this special session is to assemble a set of high-quality original contributions that reflect and advance the state-of-the-art in the area of Evolutionary Robotics, with an emphasis on the cross-fertilization between different applications of ER ranging from neuroscience, cognitive science, evolutionary biology and robotics. Dario Floreano and Sabine Hauert are co-organizers.
		ECAL07 Workshop on The Emergence of Social Behaviour: From Cooperation to Language Lisbon, Portugal, September 10-14, 2007 The workshop focuses on the emergence of sociality, specifically on understanding the minimal requirements for its emergence, the transitions between different types of social behaviour, and on integrating different scientific approaches into a common framework for research on social behaviour. Dario Floreano, Julien Hubert, Sara Mitri, Danesh Tarapore and Markus Waibel are organizers.
		Flying Insects and Robots Symposium Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, August 12-17, 2007 The goal of this symposium is to advance the understanding of biology, technology, and intelligence of small flying animals and robots by promoting an open discussion at the intersection of neurophysiology, ethology, zoology, micro-engineering, low-Reynolds aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Dario Floreano and Jean-Christophe Zufferey are co-organizers.
		ALIFE X: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems Bloomington, IN USA, June 3-7, 2006 Prof. Dario Floreano is co-organizer.
		Flying Robot Competition within the EPFL-Smartrob Contest Salle polyvalente at EPFL, Switzerland, May 2006 Our lab organizes the Flying Robot Category. People involved: Zufferey, Beyeler, Waibel, Karlen, Marbach, Fournier, Hauert.
		Airshow in Lausanne – FAI Centenary Blécherette Airfield in Lausanne , Switzerland, 27-28 August 2005 Together with other members of the AERO Initiative at EPFL , our lab held a stand demonstrating bio-inspired indoor flying robots. Our participation has been recognized by the FAI as an “highly interesting exhibition“. People involved: Zufferey, Beyeler, Karlen.
		Smartrob – EPFL Robot Contest 2005 Salle polyvalente at EPFL, Switzerland, 19 May 2005 Our lab is involved in the flying robot part. People involved: Beyeler, Zufferey, and Floreano.
		Exhibition “Circuit” at Musée Jenisch Musée Jenisch , Vevey, Switzerland, 19 March – 19 June 2005 Artistic exhibition featuring our artificially evolved indoor airship. Here is a video of the Blimp at Musée Jenisch. Events (follow this link for details): 18 March @ 18:00 = opening; 13 April @ 20:00 = meeting with the association Circuit, Jean-Christophe Zufferey (EPFL) and Dominique Radrizzani (Musée Jenisch); 27 May @ 19:00 = discussion between artists and scientists with the participation of Dario Floreano; 28 May starting @ 17:00 = “Nuit des Musées” with a demonstration of flying robots. People involved: Zufferey, Daidié, and Floreano.
		Mapping New Territories Neue Kunst Halle , St-Gallen, Switzerland, 30 January – 27 March 2000 Open Nature , Tokyo, Japan, 29 April – 3 July 2005 Artistic exhibition by knowbotic research featuring one of our flying robots. People involved: Fournier, Zufferey, and Floreano.
		naked bandit/here, not here/white sovereign Orléans, France, 13 October – 16 December 2004 Artistic exhibition by knowbotic research featuring one of our flying robots. Lab people involved: Fournier, Zufferey and Floreano.
		Smartrob – EPFL Robot Contest 2004 Salle polyvalente de l’EPFL, Switzerland, 28th of May 2004
		150e anniversaire de l’EPFL – Portes ouvertes Couloir du CE, vers la salle polyvalente de l’EPFL, Switzerland, 2-4 May 2003 L’occasion de découvrir plusieurs de nos robots en action, d’interragir avec eux ainsi qu’avec leurs concepteurs: /\/ Shrimp /\/ Alice /\/ Blimp /\/ Swarm-bot /\/ Robota /\/
		Café scientifique : L’avenir des robots Musée d’histoire des sciences, Genève, Suisse, 31 mars 2003 “Une nouvelle espèce de robots émerge des laboratoires. Des robots, inspirés du vivant, capables d’interagir, de s’associer et d’évoluer selon les lois de la sélection naturelle de Darwin. Des capacités nécessaires pour s’adapter à un environnement changeant. Le but étant de doter ces nouveaux systèmes technologiques de la possibilité de ne plus dépendre du contrôle de leurs concepteurs, bref d’en faire des êtres autonomes. Où situer les facultés ultimes des robots ? Quelle est la nature de leur intelligence ? Quelles capacités ont-ils de réagir aux émotions ? Comment les hommes et ces nouveaux robots s’adapteront-ils l’un à l’autre ? Comment les robots peuvent-ils aider aujourd’hui les handicapés ? Et demain ?” Invités LSI: Prof. Dario Floreano et Roland Siegwart
		Robots en ballade Théâtre de l’OCTOGONE à Pully, Switzerland, 10-11-12 January 2003 Exposition préparée par des enfants des classes primaires du canton de Vaud avec l’appuis d’entreprises de robotique de la région et de l’LIS. Cet événement fut un grand succès avec la visite de 1000 passionés de robotique, petits et grands. Nous y avons présenté plusieurs robots autonomes par l’intermédiaire d’une projection continue et d’une exposition statique de projets d’étudiants. De plus, le dimanche a eu lieu une démonstration en vol de notre avion d’intérieur. Zufferey, Mondada
		SAB 2002 7th Intl. Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, 4-9 August 2002 The most prestigious conference in the field of Adaptive Behavior and Bio-inspired Robotics since 1990. Keynote lectures by O’Regan (origin of feelings), Murray (pulsed hardware), Wotton (flying micro-systems), Schaal (humanoids), Nicolelis (neural stuff). Proceedings by MIT Press. Hallam, Floreano, Hallam, Meyer.
		L’objet vivant Villa-Reuge, Ste-Croix, February – September 2002 The Villa Reuge has a rather unusual ambition: to present the achievements of modern science and technology alongside the most prestigious exhibits of the cultural heritage. “L’objet vivant” (living objects), the inaugural exhibition, explores the different forms taken through history by one of mankind’s most ambitious dreams – to bring objects to life. Within the framework of this event, we organized a permanent demonstration of our “fly-inspired” artificial agent: a real Khepera robot displaying obstacle avoidance behaviour only based on visual input. Floreano, Zufferey.
		Festival science et cité EPFL, Lausanne, 5 – 13 May 2001 During this national event aimed at bringing city and science closer together, we exhibited two experiments. The former was a Koala robot equipped with a simple neural networ k as the controller, which learnt to avoid obstacles and find a light online, based on positive and negative feedbacks given by a person from the public. The second one was a Khepera robot that displayed obstacle avoidance behaviour only based on visual input. Floreano, Mattiussi, Blynel, Zufferey.
		Visible/Invisible Fondation Verdan, Lausanne, 3 August – 30 September 2000 Within the framework of this public exhibition aimed at unveiling the methods used by scientists to study nature, we have displayed a mobile robot that has been evolved to learn to solve sequential tasks. Whenever visitors press a button, an evolved Khepera robot learns on the spot to operate a switch in order to turn a light on and moves towards the light to get a reward. Visitors can watch the activity of the evolved artificial brain and observe the changing pattern of neural and synaptic activity as the evolved robot learns to carry out the task. Urzelai, Floreano.
		SAB 2000 6th Intl. Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Paris, 13-17 September 2000 The most prestigious conference in the field of Adaptive Behavior and Bio-inspired Robotics since 1990. Keynote lectures by Berthoz (animal navigation), Srinivasan (visual mechanisms in honeybees and robots), Holzer (bio-interfaces), Aubin (theory of animat viability). You can order the proceedings by MIT Press. Meyer, Berthoz, Floreano, Roitblat, Wilson.
		ECAL’99 5th European Conference on Artificial Life, Lausanne, 12-17 September 1999 A biannual conference that gathers all the most active European and International researchers in the field. More than 200 people attended this event. Keynote lectures were delivered by Meinhardt (from cells to organisms), Hamilton (natural and artificial evolution), Steels (cognitive teleportation), Lenton (gaia theory). The proceedings were published by Springer Verlag. Floreano, Nicoud, Mondada.
		Co-evolving Robots NTT ICC, Tokyo Opera House, 29 Jan.- 22 Mar. 1999 The most recent developments in new-wave and bio-inspired robotics with live-demos and public lectures. We exhibited two sets of co-evolutionary predator-prey robots displaying several chasing and escaping strategies. Floreano, Ijspeert, Martinoli, Michel, Nolfi, Gomi, Mondada.
		Genes en Culture Fondation Verdan, Lausanne, 16 April – 6 September 1998. A public exhibition aimed at showing the presence of genes in science, culture, and technology. We dissplayed an evolutionary mobile robots that every morning incrementally evolved from a pre-evolved chromosome for a navigation task. Urzelai, Floreano, Mondada.

Airshow in Lausanne – FAI Centenary

naked bandit/here, not here/white sovereign

150e anniversaire de l’EPFL – Portes ouvertes

Café scientifique : L’avenir des robots

Robots en ballade

L’objet vivant

Festival science et cité

Visible/Invisible

SAB 2000

ECAL’99

Co-evolving Robots

Genes en Culture