Location: NSF, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314, Room E3410
Arrival and Check-in
7:00 pm
Holiday Inn lobby and bar (cash bar)
Day 1
8:00 am
8:30 - 9:00 am
Drs. Nick Gravish and Vickie Webster-Wood
NSF Remarks
9:00 - 10:00 am
Dr. Barry Trimmer, Tufts University
Dr. Hannah Stuart, U.C. Berkeley
10:00 - 10:30 am
Break 10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30 pm
Question 1: What are the contextual boundaries of mechanical intelligence?
Question 2: How can mechanical intelligence be quantified in experiment/simulation/theory?
Lunch and networking 12:30 - 2:00
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Dr. Sarah Bergbreiter, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Todd Murphey, Northwestern University
3:00 - 3:30 pm
3:30 - 5:00
Question 3: What are appropriate metrics to compare mechanical intelligence to more traditional “control” approaches?
Question 4: What outcome measures need to be reported to concisely to describe and compare mechanical intelligence across multiple experiments or between different devices?
Break 5:00 - 6:00
Dinner 6:30 - 9:00
Hummingbird Bar and Kitchen
220 S. Union Street, Alexandria, Virginia, 22314 (Inside Hotel Indigo)
To be followed by a cash bar
Day 2
8:00 am
9:00 - 10:30
Question 5: From a national science mission perspective, what are the opportunities and barriers to research in mechanical intelligence?
Break 10:30 - 11:00
11:00am - 12:00 pm
Lunch and networking 12:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 3:00
Small group report outs
3:00 - 3:30