Programme

Hybrid Life V will be held on July, 20th (CEST), and will comprise of two sessions:

10.00 - 11.30 - (KEYNOTE) "Robotic human movement augmentation: principles, challenges, open questions and pilot studies" by Yanpei Huang and Jonathan Eden (Speaker: Yanpei Huang and Jonathan Eden)

11.30 - 11.50 - "Modeling the Cell as a Network of Parallel Processes - a New Approach" by Margareta Segerståhl and Boris Segerståhl (Speaker: Margareta Segerståhl)

11.50 - 12.10 - "Inside looking out? Autonomy, phenomenological experience and integrated information" by Fernando Rodriguez (Speaker: Fernando Rodriguez)

12.10 - 12.30 - "Towards Hierarchical Hybrid Architectures for Human-Swarm Interaction" by Jonas Rockbach, Luka-Franziska Bluhm and Maren Bennewitz (Speaker: Jonas Rockbach)

KEYNOTE

Robotic human movement augmentation: principles, challenges, open questions and pilot studies

by Yanpei Huang and Jonathan Eden

Work partially based on "Principles of human movement augmentation and the challenges in making it a reality" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28725-7), with abstract:

"Augmenting the body with artificial limbs controlled concurrently to one’s natural limbs has long appeared in science fiction, but recent technological and neuroscientific advances have begun to make this possible. By allowing individuals to achieve otherwise impossible actions, movement augmentation could revolutionize medical and industrial applications and profoundly change the way humans interact with the environment. Here, we construct a movement augmentation taxonomy through what is augmented and how it is achieved. With this framework, we analyze augmentation that extends the number of degrees-of-freedom, discuss critical features of effective augmentation such as physiological control signals, sensory feedback and learning as well as application scenarios, and propose a vision for the field."