Introduction

Workshop on Multimodal and Sensorimotor Bionics

A Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Technical University of Munich, Institute for Advanced Study Colloquium

The colloquium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of experts from Europe and North America to try to understand basic principles underlying both biological sensorimotor systems such as human hands and robots, eye movements in humans and robotic vision systems. Other themes include the use of computational models to assist in diagnosis and treatment of sensorimotor pathologies and the design of high performance robots based on biological principles.

"Multimodal and Sensorimotor Bionics" is co-organized and co-funded, with funds from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Colloquium Abroad program at the University of British Columbia, with partner institute, the Technical University of Munich, Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS) and will be held at TUM-IAS, Germany, July 25-28, 2011.

"Multimodal and Sensorimotor Bionics" is a workshop supported by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Major Thematic Grant project "Sensorimotor Computation" awarded to Principal Investigator Dinesh Pai, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia.