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Cecilia Laschi

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

 

The octopus as a paradigm of embodied intelligence and a model for soft-bodied robots

 

 

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Cecilia Laschi is Associate Professor of Biorobotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy. She graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1993 and received the Ph. D. in Robotics from the University of Genoa in 1998. Since 1992 she is with the ARTS Lab (Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory) of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy. From July 2001 to June 2002 she was visiting researcher at the Humanoid Robotics Institute of the Waseda University in Tokyo, as JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellow. She is also with the RoboCasa and Robot-An? joint labs of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and Waseda University and with the Research Centre on Sea Technologies and Marine Robotics of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Livorno.

 

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Project Report 2009 available
The Project Report of last year's ShanghAI Lectures is available as a PDF in two versions: Optimized for online viewing (ca. 5 MB) and optimized for printing (ca. 22 MB).
 
ShanghAI Lectures 2010

Planning for the ShanghAI Lectures 2010 has started.

There will be another round of videoconference lectures, complemented with discussions and exercises in the collaborative virtual environment. Intended start: 30 September 2010.

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Lecture 10 online
The SWITCHcast recordings of Lecture 10 (introduction, panel discussion) are available now, as well as the guest talks by Wenwei Yu, Hiroshi Yokoi, Adrianne Wortzel, and Xiaoan Li.
 
Lecture 9 online
The SWITCHcast recording of Lecture 9 is available now, as well as the guest talks by Alois Knoll/Mary Ellen Foster/Manuel Giuliani and Sukhan Lee.

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