<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>please feel free to circulate this post.</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">Living Machine</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">: </span><span style="font-size:11pt">The </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">10</span><span style="font-size:11pt">th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">2</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">7</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">– 3</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">0</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> July 202</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">1</span><span style="font-size:11pt">. </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 event will be online to assure continuity of the Living Machines conference, community engagement, and support.</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="http://livingmachinesconference.eu/2021" target="_blank" style="color:blue">http://livingmachinesconference.eu/202<span lang="EN-GB">1</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">About </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">L</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt">iving </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">M</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt">achines 202</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">1</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">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.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">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 science and engineering challenges.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Biohybrid systems are formed by combining at least one biological component—an existing living system—and at least one artificial, newly-engineered component. Bypassing information in one or both directions, such a system forms a new hybrid bio-artificial entity. The conference theme also encompasses biomimetic methods for manufacture, repair, and recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction, digestion, morphogenesis, and metamorphosis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Program and Participation</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt"> to </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">the 2021 special edition "10 years of L</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt">iving </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">M</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt">achines</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">".</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">For the 10th edition of the conference, </span></i><i style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">we seek to highlight the most exciting international fields of research united by the theme of "Living Machines". </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">This special edition will be dedicated to reflecting on how the field of Living Machines has evolved over the last 10 years and how it will progress in the next 10 years. For this reason, we will have retrospective and prospective contributions from leaders in the field.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Conference </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt">Registration</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span style="font-size:11pt">Attendance to the plenary talks and workshops will be granted upon registration and will </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">be free.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></i><span style="font-size:14.6667px">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">The Living Machines 2021 program includes:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">One day Plenary Speakers</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">     27, July 2021  -  </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px">10:00 -18:00 UTC</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">As this special edition features the 10 years of Living Machines, plenary speakers will highlight the relevant contributions to the fields of biomimetics and biohybrid systems and help to address two main questions: have these fields evolved in the last 10 years</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">?</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> What will be their unique challenges and expected progress in the next 10 years, and how will they impact society?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Invited speakers: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><b>Paul Verschure</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">,</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> IBEC, ICREA, ES</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">  -  </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><b>Tony Prescott</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> University of Sheffield,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> UK, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14.6667px"><b>Mark Cutkosky</b>, Stanford University in California, US  </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14.6667px">- <b>Barbara Mazzolai,</b> Italian Institute of Technology, IT  </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14.6667px">- </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><b>Roger Quinn</b>, </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;color:black">Case Western Reserve University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;color:black">, US  - <b>Holger Krapp</b>, University College London, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Three-days of dedicated Workshops</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">  (two workshops per day)    28-30</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:12.2222px"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">July 2021 - </span></span><span style="font-size:14.6667px">13:00 UTC</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;text-align:justify;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Active researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems are invited to </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">participate</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> in full or half-day workshops on Living Machines related themes </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Invited</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">speakers</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">will give</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> either give a short presentation or a live demonstration of their work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Registration can be done directly via the Living Machines web page, and <span style="color:black">w</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">orkshop</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">s</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> attendees must register for </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">each</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> workshop</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> they wish to attend.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(107,107,107)"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> <a href="https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2021/" target="_blank">https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2021/</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(107,107,107)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">28 July 2021<b>     </b></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2021/conference/bio-inspired-locomotion/" target="_blank">Bio-inspired Locomotion</a></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We will bring together biologists and roboticists to explore the design and control of living machines for the purpose of locomotion in the natural world. This workshop will cover both biomechanics and neural organization, and how the systems work together to achieve effective interactions with the physical environment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Organizers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Alexander Hunt</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=11857208510843490515" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none">Portland State University</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, US -<font color="#000000"> </font></span><a href="mailto:ajh26@pdx.edu" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">ajh26@pdx.edu</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">28 July 2021     </span><a href="https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2021/conference/soft-robotics/" target="_blank"><b>Perspective for softrobotics: the field's past and future</b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The soft robotics workshop will be focused on</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">answering five questions concerning </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">past and future of soft robots: how</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">to produce them; make them move, sense and think; and how to educate </span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">using soft robots? With a concluding discussion about the field's</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">challenges for the next 5 to 10 years.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Organizers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Falk Tauber</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt">U<font color="#000000">niversity of Freiburg, </font></span><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">DE - </span><a href="mailto:falk.tauber@biologie.uni-freiburg.de" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000">falk.tauber@biologie.uni-freiburg.de</font></span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Marc Desmulliez</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Heriot-Watt University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, UK - </span><a href="mailto:M.Desmulliez@hw.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000">M.Desmulliez@hw.ac.uk</font></span></a></font><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">29 July 2021<b>     <a href="https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2021/conference/plant-robotics/" target="_blank">Plant functions, hybrid systems, and plantrobotics</a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">This workshop is a great platform to discuss plant functions that can inspire robotics, as well as hybrid systems in which living plants become key components interacting with artificial technologies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Organizers: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Fabian Meder</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, Italian Institute of Technology - </span><a href="mailto:fabian.meder@iit.it" target="_blank" style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">fabian.meder@iit.it</font></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">29 July 2021<b>     </b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><b><a href="https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2021/conference/invertebrate-robotics/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">I</span>nvertebrate robotics, aka "no backbone, no problem"</a></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">Scientists</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)"> have </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">used invertebrates</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">as model to test and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">validat</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">e</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)"> robots</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)"> of different kinds</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">In this workshop</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">, we </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">will explore </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">the work </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">done </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">at the intersection of robotics and </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">the world of invertebrates</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)"> and highlight the most </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">advanced </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">approaches where interactions between the two fields have </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">achieved</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)">relevant</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(46,46,46)"> insights. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Organizers:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#2e2e2e"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Michael</span></b><b style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> Mangan</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, University of Sheffield, UK -<font color="#000000"> </font></span><a href="mailto:m.mangan@sheffield.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">m.mangan@sheffield.ac.uk</font></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Nicholas </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Szczecinski</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=4973503725159755703" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none">West Virginia University</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, US </span><a href="mailto:nss00001@mix.wvu.edu" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">nss00001@mix.wvu.edu</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">30 July 2021<b>   </b></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2021/conference/bio-hybrid-robotics/" target="_blank">It's Alive!: Biohybrid robots made from livingmaterials</a></span></b><i><span style="font-size:11pt">.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The workshop will bring together speakers in tissue engineered biohybrid robots, bacteriobots, and cyborgs to discuss 10-years of progress in biohybrid robotics and future challenges in the field. The workshop will conclude with a panel with all of the speakers to discuss the next 10-years of biohybrid robotics and living machines.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Organizers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Vickie Webster-Wood</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=17554517495610703090" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none">Carnegie Mellon University</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, US - </span><a href="mailto:vwebster@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">vwebster@andrew.cmu.edu</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Masahiro Shimizu</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Osaka University, Japan - </span><a href="mailto:shimizu@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">shimizu@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp</font></span></a><span style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">30 July 2021<b>     <a href="https://livingmachinesconference.eu/2021/conference/neuro-robotics/" target="_blank">Neuro Robotics</a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">This workshop will address </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">embodied autonomous</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> systems, synthetic </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">neural systems </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">and the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">c</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">ontrol principles underlying embodied perception, cognition and action.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Organizers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Uriel </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Martinez</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">-Hernandez</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">University </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">of Bath</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, UK</span><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">  </span><a href="mailto:u.martinez@bath.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">u.martinez@bath.ac.uk</font></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Vicky Vouloutsi</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE </span><a href="mailto:vicky.vouloutsi@tii.ae" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000">vicky.vouloutsi@tii.ae</font></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></i><span style="font-size:14.6667px">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">Conference Steering</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">C</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt">ommittee</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">- Paul Verschure</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">,</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> IBEC, BIST, ICREA, CSN foundation</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, ES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- Tony Prescott</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> University of Sheffield, CSN foundation</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">, UK</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- Thomas Speck</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> University of Freiburg, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">DE</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- Marc Desmulliez, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Heriot-Watt University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, UK</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black"></span></p><h1 style="margin:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(47,84,150);font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- Jose Halloy, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Paris Diderot University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">, FR</span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Masahiro Shimizu</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Osaka University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, JP</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">- Nathan Lepora, </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=16925647021903757957" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">University of Bristol</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- Roger Quinn, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Case Western Reserve University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, US</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- Joseph Ayers, </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=55793137512334013" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Northeastern University</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">, US</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- Mark Cutkosky, Stanford University in California, US</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- Barbara Mazzolai, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), IT</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="ES" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- Cecilia Laschi, </span><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna </span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(SSSA)</span><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, Italy</span><span lang="ES-MX"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- Koh Hosoda, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Osaka University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, JP</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">- Minoru Asada, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Osaka University</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, JP</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">- Anna Mura IBEC, BIST Barcelona, CSN Foundation</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">, ES</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">Communication</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> and </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt">local organizer committee</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">- Anna Mura, IBEC, Barcelona, CSN Foundation (General Organization)</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">- Falk Tauber, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Cluster of Excellence <i>liv</i><b>Mat</b>S</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:black">,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">University of Freiburg (Online Connection)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">- <b>Contact</b> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="mailto:info@convergentsciencenetwork.org" target="_blank">info@convergentsciencenetwork.org</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:"Arial Narrow";font-size:11px">______________________</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:"Arial Narrow""><font size="2">Dr. Anna Mura - PhD</font></span></div><div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><font size="1"><a href="http://www.specs-lab.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">SPECS (Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems)</a></font></font></div><div><a href="http://www.ibecbarcelona.eu/specs" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;font-size:11px" target="_blank">http://www.ibecbarcelona.eu/specs</a></div><div><font><div><span style="font-size:11px;color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">@SPECS-lab</span></div><div><span style="font-size:11px;color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><br></span></div><div></div><font color="#666666" style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)<br></font><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Av. Eduard Maristany, 16 08019 Barcelona<br></span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Campus Diagonal Besòs, Edifici C, floor 6</span></font></div><div><font><span style="color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:"Arial Narrow";font-size:11px">Tel +34 934012545</span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" color="#999999">Joins us </font></div><div><font color="#797979" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px"><a href="http://livingmachinesconference.eu/2020" target="_blank">9th Living Machines conference</a> in Freiburg, Germany (28-31 July 2020)</span></font></div><div><font color="#797979" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11px"><a href="https://specs.ibecbarcelona.eu/bcbt2018/" target="_blank">13th Barcelona Cognition, Brain, Technology summer school </a>(Sept 2020)</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>