1. Biologically Inspired Robotics:- The Legacy of W. Grey Walter Overview of the HP Sponsored Workshop, Bristol, Aug.2002

2. © British Telecommunications plc, 20022 Grey Walter, 1915-1977

3. © British Telecommunications plc, 20023 Grey Walter : The Turtles

4. © British Telecommunications plc, 20024 Robot Turtle Navigation

5. © British Telecommunications plc, 20025 Invited Speakers  Owen Holland (University of Essex) - History of Grey Walter  Michael Arbib (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) - Neuroethology of language evolution  Luc Steels (Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris) - Language, representations, situated games  Randall Beer (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland) - Modelling intelligence  Gerald Edelman (The Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla) - Brain based animats  Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich) - The role of animat morphology in adaptive behaviour  Mandyam Srinivasan (Australian National University, Canberra) - Insect vision & neural nets  Rodney Brooks (MIT, Boston) - History and future

6. © British Telecommunications plc, 20026 Michael Arbib A computational Neuroethology of Language Evolution Seeks to understand real neuronal mechanisms incrementally: Spatial navigation Hippocampus Rapid eye movements to visual targets & grasping Parietal & frontal cortex, mirror system Language ready brains

7. © British Telecommunications plc, 20027 Luc Steels Evolving and sharing representations through situated language games  Focuses on external representations - language drawings, gestures  Establishes communication system - by exchanging symbolic representations

8. © British Telecommunications plc, 20028 Randall Beer Frictionless Brains  Simpler ‘idealised models’

9. © British Telecommunications plc, 20029 Randall Beer Frictionless Brains  Look at dynamics of relationship between adjacent sub-models  What happens if we add X to the simple model Environment Body Nervous System

10. © British Telecommunications plc, 200210 Mandyam Srinivasan Small brains, smart minds: Insect vision, navigation, and possible robotics apps.

11. © British Telecommunications plc, 200211 Mandyam Srinivasan Small brains, smart minds: Insect vision, navigation, and possible robotics apps

12. © British Telecommunications plc, 200212 Gerald Edelman Machine Psychology: Autonomous behaviour, perceptual categorisation and conditioning in a brain-base device “The Brain is not a turing machine” “The world is not like a piece of tape and it is ambiguous” “If there is an algebra of the brain, it relies largely on motion”

13. © British Telecommunications plc, 200213 Gerald Edelman Machine Psychology: Autonomous behaviour, perceptual categorisation and conditioning in a brain-base device

14. © British Telecommunications plc, 200214 Gerald Edelman Machine Psychology: Autonomous behaviour, perceptual categorisation and conditioning in a brain-base device

15. © British Telecommunications plc, 200215 Rolf Pfeifer On the role of morphology and materials in the emergence of adaptive behaviour

16. © British Telecommunications plc, 200216 Rolf Pfeifer On the role of morphology and materials in the emergence of adaptive behaviour

17. © British Telecommunications plc, 200217 Rolf Pfeifer On the role of morphology and materials in the emergence of adaptive behaviour

18. © British Telecommunications plc, 200218 Rolf Pfeifer On the role of morphology and materials in the emergence of adaptive behaviour

19. © British Telecommunications plc, 200219 Rodney Brooks Past, present and future

20. © British Telecommunications plc, 200220 Rodney Brooks Past, present and future

21. © British Telecommunications plc, 200221 Rodney Brooks Past, present and future

22. © British Telecommunications plc, 200222 Rodney Brooks Past, present and future issues Manipulators Real Vision Limits of current tools  Warren Smith Other features of biological systems  Metabolism

23. © British Telecommunications plc, 200223 Bio-inspired solutions for locomotion in the gastrointestinal tract: background & perspectives A. Mencaisii, C. Stefanini, G. La Spinda, P. Dario

24. © British Telecommunications plc, 200224 Bio-inspired solutions for locomotion in the gastrointestinal tract: background & perspectives A. Mencaisii, C. Stefanini, G. La Spinda, P. Dario

25. © British Telecommunications plc, 200225 Web Site  www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~rid/wgw02/home.html www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~rid/wgw02/home.html  or Google search: biologically wgw