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Josh Bongard

@DoctorJosh

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Robotics professor at the University of Vermont. Also into xenobots, crowdsourcing, evolution, machine learning, artificial intelligence.

Joined April 2008
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Discussing computer designed organisms (AKA "Xenobots") with CNN anchor @FWhitfield. Joint work with @drmichaellevin, Douglas Blackiston and @Kriegmerica.
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Looking forward to speaking at the first Biohybrid Robotics Symposium (BRS) tomorrow!.
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RT @AIforGood: We made it to Times Square!. The ITU #AIforGood Global Summit, taking place 8 - 11 July at Geneva's largest #exhibition cent….
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RT @okw: The 2025 Artificial Life Conference is happening in Kyoto later this year! The theme is "Ciphers of Life", showcasing an incredibl….
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RT @NorthwesternEng: Northwestern Engineering’s Sam Kriegman has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from th….
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RT @leecronin: So we opened our Chemifarm today!
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Former lab member @Kriegmerica just received an @NSF CAREER award. Congratulations Sam!!.
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RT @MelBrooks: I told you we’d be back
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RT @junior_rojas_d: I've been experimenting with attention mechanisms to design locomotion controllers that adapt to different shapes, this….
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RT @namlehai: Decoupling Representation and Learning in Genetic Programming, at #GPTP2025 workshop in Michigan . Work’s done from.Prof @Doc….
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RT @drtevinnaidu: Prof Josh Bongard: What are Biological Robots? How AI is Reshaping Life, Consciousness & Matter! @DoctorJosh https://t.co….
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RT @musicalscience: If humans want to survive long-term on Earth, we will have to think big. REALLY big. Proud to present ENGINEERING E….
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RT @reedbndr: What is "Life". ?. In a new preprint with @drmichaellevin, @karina__kofman, and @blaiseaguera, we used LLMs to map the seman….
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Happy to be an outlier.
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Tom Froese, Embodied Cognitive Science Unit (ECSU)
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Happy to see that the core dimensions of my definition of life make me a neighbor of @drmichaellevin ! 🤗. Also nice to be reminded of the many-threaded discussions that led to this cloud of names. Currently writing an essay to dive deeper into the ontology of life.
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*Bio*diversity day.
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The Paulson Institute covers #xenobots to celebrate World Diversity Day. Thanks Johanna!. Joint work w/ @drmichaellevin @Kriegmerica & @DougBlackiston.
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RT @AIforGood: The countdown is on! Meet one of our featured speakers at the #AIforGood Global Summit 2025. 🗣 @DoctorJosh, Professor of Co….
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So proud of *Dr.* Caitlin Grasso (@csgrasso10 ). She empowered herself by discovering how to empower machines (. Wishing you all the best with next steps Caitlin.
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RT @ThosVarley: Finally out in Nat. Comms. Bio.!.Here we show that the peri-natal period of infancy is associated with a transition from sy….
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The final #robotics lecture: xenobots.
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