Episode 18: Embodied Cognition, Dynamical Systems & Attractor Networks in Care Robotics

Robotics | Yulia Sandamirskaya | Dynamical Systems | neuromorphic | Embodied Cognition | Care | AI | Attractor Networks | Switzerland | Technology | Neuroscience | Learning | Algorithms

In this episode of Deep Dives with Iman, I speak with Prof. Dr. Yulia Sandamirskaya, head of the Center for Cognitive Computing in Life Sciences at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Yulia builds robots that perceive, plan, and act in the real world using data- and energy-efficient neuromorphic computing. She states that we discovered our brain didn’t evolve for abstract tasks, it evolved to move. Even small children show cognitive behaviors grounded in movement. [...] Like when we were little, doing simple addition- ‘seven plus two’ - we imagine seven on a number line and move right two units. We place things in space.

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