Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab at @UniTrieste, directed by prof. @EricMedvetTs.
Trieste, Italy
Joined February 2020
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Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
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 – at Trondheim, Norway
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
-- E. W. Dijkstra (thanks to @drmichaellevin)
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
🤖 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! 🔍
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
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...). – at Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
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? 🧵
👉 giorgia-nadizar.github.io/#/…
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
And we will have a fantastic keynote
ieee-ssci.org/?ui=keynote-sp…
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
📢 EXTENDED Evo* 2025 submission deadline: 15 November 2024!
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
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
ieee-ssci.org/?ui=ci-in-arti… Trondheim Mar 17-20 #alife #artificiallife #SSCI2025
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
🚀 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.
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
Our just-published review article about "robots that evolve on demand".
With colleagues Frank Fish, Robert Baines, and @TheFaboratory's director Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Tsz…
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
📢 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: evostar.org/2025/
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
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_ ✨️ – at Melbourne, Victoria
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
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 👉 giorgia-nadizar.github.io/#/…
👀 Spoiler: adding curriculum learning works wonders 💥
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
What about a deadline extension? 👀
You now have until 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗼𝗘 to polish your submissions and make them even more interpretable.
We're really looking forward to them 🚀
...and don't forget about the cash prize 🤫💸
Autonomous robots will soon be everywhere, are you scared of their black-box brains? 🤖
If you care for/work in policy interpretability here's a competition for you, organized at @GeccoConf 🦎
...and you can win up to 1000€ 💸
More info in a 🧵 or at giorgia-nadizar.github.io/in…
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
Want to work at Google at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life?
Get in touch with @zzznah @RandazzoEttore @eyvindn 👇👇👇
Interested in making NCAs into a novel computational substrate, morphogenetically growing artificial brains, and the emergence of new life in silicon? We're looking for people to join us in Zürich. Ping @zzznah, @RandazzoEttore, or @eyvind if you're interested and tell us a bit about your background and your interests!
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
Graph Genetic Programming can evolve interpretable control policies, but gets easily stuck in local optima 🤖
How to fix this? Quality-Diversity 🌈
💫 Bonus point: with graph descriptors we also enhance interpretability
More in our @GeccoConf paper 👉 giorgia-nadizar.github.io/#/…
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
@EralLabTs (with @mnzluca and me as advisors) at @UniTrieste is one of the available destinations. – at San Dorligo della Valle-Dolina, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
🚨 The SPECIES Scholarship call for candidates is still open 🚨
🌍 Up to three scholarships to spend three months at a host institution
ℹ️ species-society.org/scholars…
Scholarships started in 2020: curious about the amazing works that resulted from them? Here are those from 2020 💥
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
SPECIES Scholarships: the hosts are out 🔊
Students of #EvolutionaryComputation head to species-society.org/scholars… to see where you can go ✈️ and who you can work with 🤝
🌎 10 countries
🏫 16 institutions
💫 endless possibilities to broaden your horizons
Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab retweeted
Thanks to the SPECIES scholarship, I spent three incredible months in Trieste last year working with @EralLabTs and @EricMedvetTs 🤯
The experience led to an awesome paper and likely more in the future 😉. I encourage every student to apply if they can!
SPECIES Scholarships: Call for Students 📢
🎓 Up to three scholarships for research students or recent PhD graduates
🤝 Three-month in-person internship
🌍 Host institutions all over Europe with selected mentors
💰 900€ monthly allowance
Info at species-society.org/scholars… or 🧵