• Likewise, today, September 16, they are organizing in Prague the international workshop “Alignment through Purpose in Autonomous Robots”

The researchers from the Research Center in Information and Communication Technologies of the Universidade da Coruña, Richard J. Duro and Alejandro Romero, took part in the seventh edition of the Intrinsically Motivated and Open-ended Learning Workshop (IMOL 2025).

At the meeting, they presented the poster titled “A Motivational Architecture for Open-Ended Learning Challenges in Robots,” prepared together with their colleagues from the European project Pillar Robots, Gianluca Baldassarre and Vieri Giuliano Santucci from the CNR – Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (Italy). The work proposes new motivational architectures that enable robots to autonomously and in an open-ended way tackle different learning challenges, a fundamental advance toward more adaptive and intelligent robotic systems.

On the other hand, CITIC is organizing today, September 16, the workshop “Alignment through Purpose in Autonomous Robots,” which will be held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CVUT). This interdisciplinary meeting, held within the framework of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), will bring together experts in robotics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, ethics, and psychology to address how autonomous systems can align their learning and behavior with human values, social norms, and safety criteria.

The workshop, coordinated by Alejandro Romero and Martín Naya Varela, will feature as invited speakers Richard J. Duro (Universidade da Coruña), Vieri Giuliano Santucci and Gianluca Baldassarre (ISTC-CNR, Italy), and Niki Efthymiou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece).