Dario Floreano
EPFL STI IMT LIS
MED 1 1026 (Bâtiment MED)
Station 9
CH-1015 Lausanne
Biography
Prof. Dario Floreano (M.A. 1988; M.S. 1992; Ph.D. 1995) is the director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems and director of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Robotics. He is member of the Global Agenda Council on Robotics and Smart Devices of the World Economic Forum. He is co-founder of the company senseFly S.A., of the International Society for Artificial Life, and founder of the popular robotics podcast series Talking Robots (which later became RobotsPodcast).
He has been on the advisory board of the Future and Emerging Technologies division of the European Commission, on the advisory board of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest, and on the board of governors of the International Society for Neural Networks. Prof. Floreano is a senior member of the IEEE and received several national and international awards for professional and cultural achievements. Prof. Floreano is or has been on the editorial board of the international journals: Neural Networks (Pergamon), Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Kluwer), Adaptive Behavior (Sage), Artificial Life (MIT Press), Connection Science (Francis & Taylor), Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press), Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer), IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE), Autonomous Robots (Kluwer).
| Books | |||
 Flying Insects and Robots |  Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence |  Evolutionary Robotics |  Manuale sulle Reti Neurali |
LAB MEMBERS
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Fields of expertise
Publications
Infoscience
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
C. Rognon; S. Mintchev; F. I. T. Dell'Agnola; A. T. Cherpillod; D. Atienza Alonso et al. : FlyJacket: An Upper Body Soft Exoskeleton for Immersive Drone Control; IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2018. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2018.2810955.
S. Mintchev; J. Shintake; D. Floreano : Bioinspired dual-stiffness origami; Science Robotics. 2018. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau0275.
J. C. Miehlbradt; A. T. Cherpillod; S. Mintchev; M. Coscia; F. Artoni et al. : Data-driven body–machine interface for the accurate control of drones; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2018. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1718648115.
M. A. Estrada; S. Mintchev; D. L. Christensen; M. R. Cutkosky; D. Floreano : Forceful manipulation with micro air vehicles; Science Robotics. 2018. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aau6903.
G. E. Tamo; A. Maesani; S. Träger; M. Degiacomi; D. Floreano et al. : Disentangling constraints using viability evolution principles in integrative modeling of macromolecular assemblies; Scientific Reports. 2017. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-017-00266-w.
P. Ramdya; R. Thandiackal; R. Cherney; T. Asselborn; R. Benton et al. : Climbing favours the tripod gait over alternative faster insect gaits; Nature Communications. 2017. DOI : 10.1038/ncomms14494.
A. Tonazzini; S. Mintchev; B. Schubert; B. Mazzolai; J. Shintake et al. : Variable Stiffness Fiber with Self-Healing Capability; Advanced Materials. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201602580.
J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano; H. Shea : Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators; Advanced Materials. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201504264.
