Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab

Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab at @UniTrieste, directed by prof. @EricMedvetTs.

[Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab @EralLabTs]

We are attending #ICMIND in #Xiamen, China. We'll present or work on pleiotropy in body-brain evolution of simulated agents. 👉🏼 https://t.co/k8pdL6pYWB

[Stefano Nichele @stenichele]

Great and inspiring keynote at ALIFE-CIS by @mnzluca on the foundational work by Nils Barricelli, an italian-norwegian researcher pioneering artificial life
@HirokiSayama @NehanivCL

[Perry Marshall @PerryMarshall]

"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
-- E. W. Dijkstra (thanks to @drmichaellevin)

[Harald M. Ludwig @haraldludwig_]

🤖 Looking at these robot navigation tasks - TE captures the full trajectory, not just endpoints.
The archives reveal exactly where successful robots walked, giving much better insights than traditional ME! 🔍

[Dr. Ana Černok @ana_cernok]

In March 2025 I am starting a Planetary Geology course at @UniTrieste. It is an MSc course, but students of all walks are welcome. It will be taught in English. Please help spread the word in the neighboring regions (also in Croatia, Slovenia, Austria...).

[Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab @EralLabTs]

Today we hosted Carlos M. Fonseca from #cisuc @UnivdeCoimbra, currently visiting @UniTrieste for a relaxed exchange of research ideas.

[Giorgia Nadizar @GNadizar]

What if robots could specialize like living organisms? 🧠

In our new paper, we explore how totipotency—a trait of living cells—can aid body-brain co-evolution in modular soft robots.
Curious how Hebbian learning unlocks modular specialization? 🧵

👉 https://t.co/3pIQtUdJPB

[Stefano Nichele @stenichele]

@jlizier @ieeessci And we will have a fantastic keynote

https://t.co/BP2CZJCaST

[Evostar @EvostarConf]

📢 EXTENDED Evo* 2025 submission deadline: 15 November 2024!

[Joseph Lizier @jlizier]

Call for late-breaking, posters(abstracts) & J2C submissions for IEEE ALIFE-CIS (IEEE Symposium on CI in Artificial Life & Cooperative Intelligent Systems) - due *10th Dec* - part of IEEE SSCI @ieeessci
https://t.co/EzvShQuzrk Trondheim Mar 17-20 #alife #artificiallife #SSCI2025

[Evostar @EvostarConf]

🚀 You can still submit your papers for EvoStar 2025! Don’t miss your chance — submissions are open until November 1st!

Swipe through to discover why attending in person in the charming city of Trieste could make your conference experience truly unforgettable.

[Josh Bongard @DoctorJosh]

Our just-published review article about "robots that evolve on demand".

With colleagues Frank Fish, Robert Baines, and @TheFaboratory's director Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio.

https://t.co/uuovwlnegQ

[Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab @EralLabTs]

We just welcomed our new lab member 🤖🐩 (still unnamed...). Together with friends from the #IndustrialAutomationLab, this guy will help us do more cutting-edge #research on data-driven/learning-based control. We thank @DiaUnits for the support!

[Evostar @EvostarConf]

📢 Second Call for Papers: EvoStar 2025 📢

📆 Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024
📌 Conference Dates: April 23-25, 2025
🇮🇹 Venue: Trieste, Italy

Accepted papers will be published in Springer Nature’s LNCS series. 📚✨
Follow the updates: https://t.co/PiIbPgsYYc

[Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab @EralLabTs]

A fruitful collaboration between @Unibo and @DiaUnits-@UniTrieste. Much more successful than this other collaboration: https://t.co/ZazaIktsWx

[Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab @EralLabTs]

@pbmandrab presented our study on "Cooperation in Evolved Modular Soft 🤖 Robots": identical soft agents can be evolved to 🫱🏼‍🫲🏻collectively perform a task that is undoable by single agents. Many questions and ideas for further research from #wivace2024! 👉🏼 https://t.co/2Je2fRUx2l

[Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab @EralLabTs]

This was the first conference talk by @el_saliby, who is completing his master degree at @DiaUnits in weeks. The paper is a groupwork by @GNadizar, @EricaSalvato1, @SilverHaxt, and @EricMedvetTs. #bravitutti! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab @EralLabTs]

We are in 🇧🇪#Namur at #wivace2024 where @el_saliby just presented our work on "Factors Impacting 🏞️Landscape Ruggedness in 🤖Control Problems" (👉🏼 https://t.co/FeNlLUxpNx): brilliant presentation, bravissimo the speaker!

[Giorgia Nadizar @GNadizar]

Second very full and exciting day of @GeccoConf 🦎
I found the official mascotte and annoyed it for multiple pics 🐨
I presented our nice paper from @EralLabTs 🎤
I had a nice dinner with the graph GP gang 🥘
And I finally took my traditional badge pic with @gpietrop_ ✨️

[Giorgia Nadizar @GNadizar]

Test cases for training #GeneticProgramming agents are difficult + costly to generate 🤯💸
What if we could leverage #LargeLanguageModels for this task? 💡

We tried it in our @GeccoConf paper 👉 https://t.co/USHVZRTArY

👀 Spoiler: adding curriculum learning works wonders 💥