Dario Floreano
Full Professor
dario.floreano@epfl.ch +41 21 693 52 30 https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lis
EPFL STI IMT LIS
MED 1 1026 (Bâtiment MED)
Station 9
CH-1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 52 30
+41 21 693 59 66
Office: MED 1 1026
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Fields of expertise
Wearable Robots
Biography
Prof. Floreano holds an M.A. in Vision, an M.S. in Neural Computation, and a PhD in Robotics. He has held research positions at Sony Computer Science Laboratory, at Caltech/JPL, and at Harvard University. His main research interests are Robotics and A.I. at the convergence of biology and engineering. Prof. Floreano made pioneering contributions to the fields of evolutionary robotics, aerial robotics, and soft robotics. He served in numerous advisory boards and committees, including the Future and Emerging Technologies division of the European Commission, the World Economic Forum Agenda Council, the International Society of Artificial Life, the International Neural Network Society, and in the editorial committee of several scientific journals. In addition, he helped spinning off two drone companies (senseFly.com and Flyability.com) and a non-for-profit portal on robotics and A.I. (RoboHub.org).
Books
Evolutionary Robotics, MIT Press, 2000
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Microengineering
Mechanical Engineering