REAL
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Robotics, Evolution & Artificial Life Laboratory 🌐 real.itu.dk 📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
Complexity and interpretability rarely coincide: complex systems are usually too opaque to question, while transparent ones are too simple interesting dynamics to emerge. What if we treated LLM agents as the basic computational unit to build agentic substrates? Paper thread 🧵
Our paper with @eplantec.bsky.social was accepted at @alifeconf.bsky.social How does criticality move from agents to populations? We study how near-critical dynamics inside individual agents shape collective dynamics at the population scale. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01818
Call for papers for 'Artificial Life for Science and Engineering' at ALife 26. We seek work applying ALife concepts and tools to model real-world systems and engineer solutions — and assist scientific discovery through open-ended and curiosity-driven search. Call info: alifeforscience.github.io
Would you kick a (robot) dog? @bdacre.bsky.social on the dark design patterns used AI systems and robots
Congratulations to our own Dr. Bessone @nbes.bsky.social for his successful PhD defence @itu.dk ✨🧑🏻🎓
We are thrilled to be returning to GECCO for a second edition of the Evolving Self-Organisation Workshop. We are now accepting paper submissions, so come join us! Check out our website for more info and upcoming announcements evolving-self-organisation-workshop.github.io/gecco-2026/
Jobs! The Autotelic Interaction Research Group is looking for (1) creative practitioners and (2) theory researchers to work on "Autotelic Creative Artificial Intelligence" (ACAI): (1) PhD in Creative Practices (2+2 years): lnkd.in/dPBG47rM (2) Postdoctoral Researcher (2 years): lnkd.in/dMisM_bf
WE ARE BACK! 🚀🚀🚀 📢 #databeers #copenhagen x Absalon is back on March 10th, SAVE THE DATE! Many thanks to our sponsors, the Danish Data Science Academy and the Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Speaker announcement and tickets out soon, stay tuned!
What a week—projects, tutorials, discussion groups, art demo & even a complexity-alife quiz! Thank you to all the attendees who brought a fantastic energy to this year's ALICE workshop. We can't wait to see you again next year, this time in Norway 🇳🇴 Thank you to @aicentre.dk and @itu.dk !
Day two: tutorials, more discussion groups with @angelgm.bsky.social, @kyrre2000.bsky.social and Alexander Mordvintsev
The panel discussion with all the guests speakers and moderated by Milton Montero & @elisecutts.bsky.social
Less than a week for ALICE—we are looking forward welcome you all in Copenhagen! ⛄ You can find the updated program here: aliceworkshop.org/program/
Kan naturens egen designproces videreudvikle AI? En ny lærebog skrevet af ITU-professor @risi.bsky.social m.fl. udforsker feltet 𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, der kan ændre fremtidens kunstige intelligens. "Grundideen er at efterligne, hvordan intelligens opstod i naturen." Læs mere 👉 itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press...
Excited to announce our book “Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design” by Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, Risto Miikkulainen, and myself. We explore decades of work on evolving intelligent agents and shows how neuroevolution can drive creativity in deep learning, RL, LLMs and AI Agents!
This year's ALICE guest speakers 🧑🔬 - Angel Goñi-Moreno - @angelgm.bsky.social - Alyssa Adams - @alyssa-m-adams.bsky.social - Alexander Mordvintsev - Eric Medvet - @ericmedvetts.bsky.social - Kyrre Glette - @kyrre2000.bsky.social - Stefano Nichele - @stenichele.bsky.social - Susan Stepney
Our (in the making) paper combining morphogenetic fields and neural cellular cellular automata with @miltonllera.bsky.social, Eleni Nisioti & @risi.bsky.social got a little award at @alife2025.bsky.social #ALife2025 💮✨
The SONI session turned out a great—shout out to the speakers & the panelists @emilydolson.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho for great talks & discussion on how we can rethink intelligence under the complexity lens. #ALife2025 @alife2025.bsky.social
We had the chance to visit the new Artificial Life Institute in Kyoto. Beautiful & inspiring space ✨
We are excited to announce the Artificial Life, Intelligence, Complexity & Evolution (𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗘) workshop. This first edition will be hosted in Copenhagen on the first week of February. We will soon be announcing the guest speakers—Stay tuned! Check our website for more information: aliceworkshop.org
We're excited to announce final program of the @alife2025.bsky.social SONI session which will host a panel discussion with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @risi.bsky.social, @emilydolson.bsky.social & Sidney Pontes-Filho Check out the full program: sites.google.com/view/soni-al... See you in Kyoto ⛩️
Be part of the next generation of virtual creatures: Enter the 2025 Virtual Creatures Competition (VCC)! Held at #ALIFE2025, the #VCC is an annual competition to showcase recent research in the field of artificial life. Judges and prizes to be announced soon. ⬇️ ⬇️
Synthetic ecosystems that autonomously and continuously evolve in silico 👾 An Alifer dream we pursue with Flow-Lenia, a mass-conservative continuous CA ! If you are interested in complex systems with (1) emergent creatures and (2) intrinsic evolutionary dynamics, go check our new paper ! A 🧵
Decentralised robotics 🤖🕸️🤖 @bdacre.bsky.social presenting his research on tile-based manipulation system
The @alife2025.bsky.social deadline has been extended one week—new deadline May 11th 2025 23:59 AoE Join us in Kyoto for #ALife2025 🎏
Elias Najarro@najarro.science · last yr.Announcing SONI: Self-Organising Neural Intelligence(s) 🧠 An #ALife2025 special session to bring together AI & ALife communities to explore how self-organisation can contribute to neural paradigms of intelligence. Call for papers sites.google.com/view/soni-al... |Submission deadline: May 4th
