<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> 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). -------------------------------- HcMR-lab WORKSHOP on "HUMAN-CENTERED MOBILE ROBOTICS" Entrada Livre For registration and to download the program flyer please follow the link: <a href="https://forms.gle/kjP6YSBk2srtUJoBA" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://forms.gle/kjP6YSBk2srtUJoBA</a> 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) ----------------------------------- <div>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.</div> <div>Mini-CV:</div> <div>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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7750-5221" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7750-5221</a></div> </body> </html>