Living Machines III: The 3rd International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems

Start: 
Tue, 2014/07/29 - Fri, 2014/08/01
Location: 
Milan, Italy

2014/06/03 pre-conference workshops: http://csnetwork.eu/livingmachines/conf2014/workshops

The development of future real-world technologies will depend strongly on our understanding and harnessing of the principles underlying living systems and the flow of communication signals between living and artificial systems.

KEY DATES

  • June 30th 2014 Deadline for early registration
  • July 30th - August 1st 2014 Conference

Biomimetics is the development of novel technologies through the distillation of principles from the study of biological systems. The investigation of biomimetic systems can serve two complementary goals. First, a suitably designed and configured biomimetic artefact can be used to test theories about the natural system of interest. Second, biomimetic technologies can provide useful, elegant and efficient solutions to unsolved challenges in science and engineering. Biohybrid systems are formed by combining at least one biological component—an existing living system—and at least one artificial, newly-engineered component. By passing information in one or both directions, such a system forms a new hybrid bio-artificial entity. The following are some examples:

  • Biomimetic robots and their component technologies (sensors, actuators, processors) that can intelligently interact with their environments.
  • Active biomimetic materials and structures that self-organize and self-repair.
  • Biomimetic computers—neuromimetic emulations of the physiological basis for intelligent behaviour.
  • Biohybrid brain-machine interfaces and neural implants.
  • Artificial organs and body-parts including sensory organ-chip hybrids and intelligent prostheses.
  • Organism-level biohybrids such as robot-animal or robot-human systems.

ACTIVITIES

The main conference will take the form of a three-day single-track oral and poster presentation programme, 30th July to 1st August 2014, hosted at the Museo Nazionale Della Scienza E Della Tecnologia Leonardo Da Vinci in Milan (http://www.museoscienza.org).

The conference programme will include five plenary lectures from leading international researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems, and the demonstrations of state-of-the-art living machine technologies

The full conference will be preceded by up to two days of Satellite Events hosted by the Instituto Italiano di Technologia in Milan.

SUBMITTING TO LIVING MACHINES 2014

We invite both full papers and extended abstracts in areas related to the conference themes.  All contributions will be refereed and accepted papers will appear in the Living Machines 2014 proceedings published in the Springer-Verlag LNAI Series.   Submissions should be made before the advertised deadline via the Springer submission site:http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/en/home/LM2014

Full papers (upto 12 pages) are invited from researchers at any stage in their career but should present significant findings and advances in biomimetic or biohybid research; more preliminary work would be better suited to extended abstract submission (3 pages). Further details of submission formats will be circulated in an updated CfP and will be posted on the conference web-site.

Full papers will be accepted for either oral presentation (single track) or poster presentation. Extended abstracts will be accepted for poster presentation only.

Authors of the best full papers will be invited to submitted extended versions of their paper for publication in a special issue of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics.

Satellite events

Active researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems are invited to propose topics for 1-day or 2-day tutorials, symposia or workshops on related themes to be held 28-29th July at Italian Institute of Technology in Milan. Events can be scheduled on either the 28th or 29th or across both days. Attendance at satellite events will attract a small fee intended to cover the costs of the meeting.  There is a lot of flexibility about the content, organisation, and budgeting for these events.  Please contact us if you are interested in organising a satellite event!

Thanks to the Biomimetics mailing list and Fil Salustri for the pointer!

 

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