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Dario Floreano

Dario Floreano is Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He is the coauthor of Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines (MIT Press, 2000).

Titles by This Author

Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence

Theories, Methods, and Technologies
By Dario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi

New approaches to artificial intelligence spring from the idea that intelligence emerges as much from cells, bodies, and societies as it does from evolution, development, and learning. Traditionally, artificial intelligence has been concerned with reproducing the abilities of human brains; newer approaches take inspiration from a wider range of biological structures that that are capable of autonomous self-organization.

Evolutionary Robotics

The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines
By Stefano Nolfi and Dario Floreano

Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Drawing heavily on biology and ethology, it uses the tools of neural networks, genetic algorithms, dynamic systems, and biomorphic engineering.

Titles by This Editor

From animals to animats 7

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
By Gillian Hayes
Edited by Bridget Hallam, Dario Floreano, John Hallam, Jean-Arcady Meyer and Gillian Hayes

The Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Conference brings together researchers from ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, computer science, engineering, and related fields to further understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow adaptation and survival in uncertain environments.

From Animals to Animats 6

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
Edited by Jean-Arcady Meyer, Alain Berthoz, Dario Floreano, Herbert L. Roitblat and Stewart W. Wilson

The Animals to Animats Conference brings together researchers from ethology, psychology, ecology, artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, engineering, and related fields to further understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and synthetic agents (animats) to adapt and survive in uncertain environments.