Dario Floreano

Dario Floreano is professor of intelligent systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has bee the founding director of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Robotics, a 12-year program that substantially contributed to bring Switzerland at the international forefront of intelligent robotics research, education, and business. He co-authored more than 500 peer-reviewed articles and helped bootstrap and grow several companies in intelligent robotics.

Dario holds an M.A. in Visual Psychophysics, an M.S. in Neural Computation, and a PhD in Robotics. He held visiting fellowships at Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo, at Caltech/JPL in Pasadena, and at Harvard University in Boston. He received several international awards for pioneering contributions to evolutionary robotics, aerial robotics, and soft robotics.

He co-authored books on Artificial Neural Networks (il Mulino, in Italian, two editions), Evolutionary Robotics (MIT Press), Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press) and Bio-inspired Flying Robots (Springer). His latest book with MIT Press "Tales from a Robotic World: How intelligent machines will shape our future" unveils robotics research brewing in labs around the world through stories of their deployment in a not-too-distant future.