Research Areas:
Aerial Robots, Evolutionary Robots, Soft Robots, Wearable Robots, Bio-inspired Robots, Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dario FLOREANO is Full Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He has helped to grow and shape the Swiss robotics ecosystem with the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics from 2010 to 2022. He has made pioneering contributions to the fields of evolutionary robotics, aerial robotics, and soft robotics. His research interests include understanding the principles of embodied AI from nature and developing bio-inspired robotic systems.

Prof. Floreano has multi-disciplinary training in visual psychophysics, neural computation, and robotics. He has held visiting research positions at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Caltech/JPL, and Harvard University. He has co-authored more than 500 publications and five books by MIT Press and Springer-Verlag, spun off half-a-dozen robotics companies, and serves on the editorial board of several journals, including Science Robotics.

Prof. Floreano has received numerous awards and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), and the European Center for Living Technology. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the ELLIS Tübingen Institute for Machine Learning and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.