This lectures series is a satellite event of the exhibition under the same title which was housed at Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence from January 23 to March 15, 2016. The show was conceived by the BioRobotics Institute–Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies, Museo Galileo and University of Siena. The lectures were organized in collaboration with Florence Science Café and the Tuscan Regional Council. All of them are available on YouTube (Italian only).

Florence, Palazzo Bastogi (Via Cavour 18), 5:00 pm

Thursday, 28 January 2016
History of automatons from the Antiquity to the nineteenth century
Giovanni Di Pasquale (Museo Galileo)
The lecture on YouTube

Thursday, 4 February 2016
Bionic systems: Risks and opportunities
Silvestro Micera (BioRobotics Institute–Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies)
Chair: Giovanni La Penna (Italian Research Council and Florence Science Café)
The lecture on YouTube

Thursday, 11 February 2016
Biorobotics and bionics: Scientific, technological and social challenges
Paolo Dario (BioRobotics Institute–Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies)
The lecture on YouTube

Thursday, 18 February 2016
Robotics and sustainable technological development
Guglielmo Tamburrini (Federico II University of Naples)
Chair: Francesco Grasso (University of Florence and Florence Science Café)
The lecture on YouTube

Thursday, 25 February 2016
Robots and the aesthetics of communication
Mario Costa (University of Salerno)
The lecture on YouTube

Thursday, 3 March 2016
The sex of robots in the collective imagination
Riccardo Putti (University of Siena)
The lecture on YouTube

Thursday, 10 March 2016
Hypothesis on cyborg: Images, machines, worlds
Elena Bougleux (University of Bergamo)
The lecture on YouTube