[AllUsers-ISR] HcMR Workshop | Palestra:Evolutionary Robotics and its frontiers with cognitive sciences, chaos, and LLMs | 25/10

[Urbano J. Nunes]

Caros Colegas, Investigadores e Estudantes

Informo que inserido no HcMR-lab Workshop on Human-Centered Mobile 
Robotics, a ter lugar amanhã dia 25/10 e para o qual estão todos 
convidados, irá ter lugar uma palestra, sobre o tema "*Evolutionary 
Robotics and its frontiers with cognitive sciences, chaos, and LLMs"* 
(detalhes abaixo incluídos).

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*HcMR-lab WORKSHOP on "HUMAN-CENTERED MOBILE ROBOTICS"*

*Entrada Livre
For registration and to download the program flyer please follow the 
link:* https://forms.gle/kjP6YSBk2srtUJoBA
Organizer: Professor Urbano J. Nunes
Local:  Room T4.4, Deptº Engª Eletrotécnica e de Computadores 
(DEEC-FCTUC), Polo II da Univ. Coimbra
Date: 25th October 2024 (13:40-16:40)
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*PALESTRA:**Evolutionary Robotics and its frontiers with cognitive 
sciences, chaos, and LLMs
*In this talk, I will briefly present the area of evolutionary robotics 
and how we can draw inspiration from and contribute to cognitive science 
research. Specifically, I will present some results on how cognitive 
offloading, a process also found in humans, alleviates the need for 
cognition, allowing the generation of more effective autonomous agents 
in tasks that require capabilities beyond reactive strategies. I will 
also show how evolutionary biology can provide us with interesting 
ideas, such as, for instance, using edge-of-chaos dynamics to produce 
more effective exploration strategies in a swarm of minimalist robots. 
Finally, I will outline my current work on combining and studying the 
integration of LLMs with embodied agents.

*Mini-CV:*
Jônata Tyska Carvalho is an Associate Professor at the Federal 
University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)/Brazil. He advises undergrad, 
master's, and PhD students and offers machine learning and data science 
courses to computer science undergrad and graduate programs. He is also 
a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and 
Technologies (ISTC-CNR) in Rome/Italy. He has PhD (Computing) from 
Plymouth University, where he worked with Adaptive Behavior in 
Evolutionary Robotics. He also holds a Computer Engineering (B.Sc.) 
(2008) and a Master in Computational Modelling (M.Sc.) (2011) degrees 
from the Federal University of Rio Grande(FURG)/Brazil. His research 
interests include adaptive behavior for autonomous agents, evolutionary 
algorithms, applied machine learning, and data science. He has published 
over 40 scientific articles in conferences and journals in many areas of 
his research interests. He is currently doing a sabbatical in Rome 
in the Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life (LARAL), 
specifically researching the combination of LLMs and autonomous agents.
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Best Regards
-- Urbano J. Nunes

Urbano J. Nunes: Coordinator of the ISR Human-centered Mobile Robotics 
lab (HCMR-lab)
Full Professor, DEEC - University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7750-5221
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