Dario Floreano
Dario Floreano | |
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Dario Floreano | |
Born |
Dario Floreano 1964 San Daniele del Friuli, Italy |
Residence | Lausanne, Switzerland |
Nationality | Swiss and Italian |
Alma mater |
University of Trieste University of Stirling |
Known for | Evolutionary robotics |
Title |
Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) |
Website |
people |
Dario Floreano (San Daniele del Friuli, Italy, 1964) is director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS)[1] at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland as well as the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics.[2] He is one of the pioneers in evolutionary robotics, a research field in which robots are evolved using artificial evolution.[3]
Floreano received an M.A. in visual psychophysics from the University of Trieste in 1988, an M.Sc. in neural computation from the University of Stirling in 1992, and a Ph.D. in cognitive systems and robotics from the University of Trieste in 1995.
His research activities focus on three areas of embodied artificial intelligence: 1) design of novel micro-robots that take inspiration from biological organisms; 2) methods for allowing several of these robots to cooperate in order to accomplish missions that are impossible for a single robot; 3) artificial evolution to synthetize novel forms of electro-mechanical organisms and for reverse engineering of complex biological circuits, such as gene regulatory networks.
Floreano co-organized several international conferences in the fields of bio-mimetic engineering and is on the editorial board of several international journals: Neural Networks; Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines; Adaptive Behavior; Artificial Life; Connection Science; Evolutionary Computation; IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation; Autonomous Robots; Evolutionary Intelligence. He is co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Artificial Life, Inc., and a member of the Board of Governors of the International Society for Neural Networks.
He was also director of the popular podcast series Talking Robots,[4] which featured interviews with high-profile professionals in robotics and artificial intelligence for an inside view on the science, technology, and business of intelligent robotics.
References
- ↑ Laboratory of Intelligent System
- ↑ "NCCR Robotics People".
- ↑ Tom Standage (9 June 2017). "Dario Floreano: A pioneer of “evolutionary robotics” borrows drone designs from nature". The Economist. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ↑ Talking Robots