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

Trieste, Italy
Joined February 2020
We are attending #ICMIND in #Xiamen, China. We'll present or work on pleiotropy in body-brain evolution of simulated agents. 👉🏼 medvet.inginf.units.it/publi…
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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
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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- E. W. Dijkstra (thanks to @drmichaellevin)
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🤖 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! 🔍
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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
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Today we hosted Carlos M. Fonseca from #cisuc @UnivdeCoimbra, currently visiting @UniTrieste for a relaxed exchange of research ideas.
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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/#/…
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Replying to @jlizier @ieeessci
And we will have a fantastic keynote ieee-ssci.org/?ui=keynote-sp…
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📢 EXTENDED Evo* 2025 submission deadline: 15 November 2024!
📢 3rd Call for Papers: EvoStar 2025 📢 📆 Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024 📌 Conference Dates: April 23-25, 2025 🇮🇹 Venue: Trieste, Italy EvoStar comprises four co-located Conferences: 🧵
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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
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🚀 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.
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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…
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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!
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📢 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/
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Replying to @pbmandrab
@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! 👉🏼 medvet.inginf.units.it/publi…
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We are in 🇧🇪#Namur at #wivace2024 where @el_saliby just presented our work on "Factors Impacting 🏞️Landscape Ruggedness in 🤖Control Problems" (👉🏼 medvet.inginf.units.it/publi…): brilliant presentation, bravissimo the speaker!
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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! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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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
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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 💥
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Favourite random CA so far
Scaling up random neural cellular automata #cellularautomata
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