Prof. Fabio Bonsignorio, in collaboration with prof. Ivan Petrovic established the AIFORS Colloquia on Natural and Artificial Intelligence as a series of small, invitation-only, face-to-face group meetings focusing on a small number of important research questions in the field of AI and robotics, with the aim to open up new avenues of research, propose solutions and strategies for theoretical, technological and societal problems, and build fruitful new collaborations.
The 1st AIFORS colloquium, held on March 19, 2024 at UNIZG FER, focused on the research challenges and the potential enormous synergies arising from the fusion of (physics-aware) deep neural networks, soft robot and agent embodiments, and neuromorphic computing. The program included the talks of prof. Bonsignorio and invited speakers from Italy, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany who shared their research results, visions and strategies:
- Fabio Bonsignorio: Towards a new paradigm AI for new paradigm (soft) robotics
- Enrica Zereik: Distributed Emergent Control System for heterogeneous robotics applications
- Yulia Sandamirskaya: Brain-inspired computing: next step in embodied AI?
- Gordon Cheng: Purposive-AI: The Next Frontier
High-level, internationally recognized researchers from different backgrounds in terms of gender, nationality and career level were invited to share their research results, visions and strategies with researchers from AIFORS, LAMOR and UNIZG-FER, as well as with researchers from other Croatian institutions. The informal style of the meetings allowed for in-depth, unconventional discussions and encouraged informal exchange between participants.
The program was organized in two sessions – a scientific session and a research strategy session – to foster potential research collaborations and to train UNIZG-FER research managers in research strategy development, planning and performance monitoring. More detailed information about the colloquium can be found on the Coloquium website.
