About us

We are the Robotics, Evolution and Art Lab, based at the IT University of Copenhagen. Our vision is to do research on the border between fiction and fact, to create new, feasible solutions for the society of tomorrow. The lab has an interdisciplinary experimental practice and explores what-if scenarios using fundamental science and engineering to work towards the realization of these scenarios. Academically, the group is rooted in artificial intelligence with specific interests in robotics and evolutionary computation, but generally the research agenda is driven by opportunities arising both within science and in society.

Projects

iNNk

iNNk

An online, multiplayer, neural network based game. Try out the game and see if your team can communicate safely without the neural network’s comprehension.

Open-Ended Evolution

Open-Ended Evolution

Evocraft (Evolution + Minecraft) - A python framework for open-endedness research with Minecraft

Safety and Life-long Reinforcement Learning

Safety and Life-long Reinforcement Learning

Making Reinforcement Learning solve tasks safely

BIG-MAP

BIG-MAP

Battery Interface Genome - Materials Acceleration Platform

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment

Using Bayesian modelling to adapt content to users

EMERGE

EMERGE

Easy Modular Embodied Robot Generator

EvoBliss

EvoBliss

Technological Evolution of Synergy Between Physicochemical and Living Systems

Flora Robotica

Flora Robotica

Developing and investigating symbiotic relationships between robots and natural plants, to produce architectural artifacts and living spaces

Mozart

Mozart

Autonomous manipulation and soft robots for food packaging.

Meet the group

Professors

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Andrés Faíña

Associate Professor

Modular Robots, Evolutionary Robotics, Liquid Handling Robots, Automatic Design of Robots

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Djordje Grbic

Associate Professor

Emergence, Reinforcement Learning, Safety

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Kasper Støy

Full Professor

Modular robots, Lab automation, Multi-robot systems, Swarm robotics, Evolutionary robotics, Robot learning, Unconventional robots (braid robotics)

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Payam Zahadat

Associate Professor

Swarm robotics, Evolutionary robotics, Collective intelligence, Bio-inspired computation, self-organizing systems, Complex systems

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Rodrigo Moreno

Assistant Professor

Modular Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Emergence, Lab Automation, Evolutionary Robotics

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Sebastian Risi

Full Professor

Neuroevolution, Neural networks, Evolutionary algorithms, Evolutionary robotics, Generative and developmental systems, Procedural content generation, Game AI, Computational intelligence

Postdocs

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Claire Glanois

Postdoc

Deep Reinforcement Learning, Open-Endedness, Self-Organisation, Neuro-Logic, Interpretable AI, Creative AI, Continual Learning, Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry

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Eleni Nisioti

Postdoc

Learning and Evolution, Eco-inspired AI, Multi-agent systems, Networks

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Joachim Winther Pedersen

Postdoc

Evolved Plastic Artificial Neural Networks, Qualitiy Diversity, Computational Neuroscience, Meta-learning, Indirect Encoding

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Matthias Freiberger

Postdoc

Effective neural representations in computer vision, Unconventional and self-organised artificial intelligence, Novel bio-inspired paradigms of computing and visual processing

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Milton Montero

Postdoc

Compositional Generalisation, Human and Computer Vision, Neuro-Symbolic Systems, Embodied Cognition, Self-Organization, Neuro-Evolution, Causal Discovery, Reasoning and Planning

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Morten Roed Frederiksen

Postdoc

socially assistive robots, Human-robot interaction, Reinforcement Learning, context comprehension in robotics

PhD Students

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Bailey Dacre

PhD Student

Novel Robotic Design, Modular Robotics, Evolutionary Robotics, Lab automation

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Elias Najarro

PhD Student

Self-organizing systems, Neuro-inspired ML, Evolutionary Computation, Meta-Learning, Open-Endedness

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Jonas Haaugarrd Jensen

PhD Student

Robotics, Lab automation, Artificial intelligence

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Meisam Jamshidi Seikavandi

PhD Student

Eye tracking, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Vision, Deep Learning

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Nicolas Bessone

PhD Student

Artificial Intelligence, Bio-inspired Computation, Collective Behavior, Decentralized System, Emergence, Evolutionary Algorithms, Evolutionary Robotics

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Pratik Suresh Ingle

PhD Student

Swarm Robotics, Collective Behaviour, Multi-agent Systems, Evolutionary Robotics, Bio-inspired Computation, Reinforcement Learning

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Thomas Vase Schultz Volden

PhD Student

Procedural Content Generation, Player modeling, Adaptive Puzzle Games, Large Language Models

Spinoff Companies

Flow Robotics

Flow Robotics

Flow Robotics produces flexible and user-friendly liquid handling robots for automation of pipetting tasks in laboratories.

modl.ai

modl.ai

Headquartered in Denmark, modl.ai is a team of game developers, engineers and AI experts working together to create AI-driven tools for building better games.

Find us

Address

Rued Langgaards Vej 7

2300 København S

Danmark

Our offices are located at Emil Holms Kanal, 2F18.

Our Lab is located at RLV 7, 5A20/22.