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X-WR-CALNAME:SAB 2026 - October 21\, 2026
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DTSTAMP:20260824T152240Z
DTSTART:20261021T061500Z
DTEND:20261021T070000Z
SUMMARY:SAB 2026 - Registration
LOCATION:GNS Lobby Area
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DTSTAMP:20260824T152240Z
DTSTART:20261021T070000Z
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SUMMARY:SAB 2026 - Session (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
DESCRIPTION:Learning and Skill Acquisition\n\n9:00 am - 9:20 am: Emergence 
 of Hierarchical Utility Spaces through Contextual Knowledge Reuse in Lifel
 ong Open-Ended Learning (Speaker: Alejandro Romero) - J. A. Becerra\, A. R
 omero\, F. Bellas\, R. J. Duro\n9:20 am - 9:40 am: Neural Representations 
 in Sequential \\& Interleaved Training (Speaker: Georgios Detorakis) - G. 
 Detorakis\, A. Papoutsi\n9:40 am - 10:00 am: Guiding Autonomous Skill Acqu
 isition Toward Useful Sub-goals in Hierarchical Domains (Speaker: Andrea M
 orelli) - A. Morelli\, V. Santucci\n10:00 am - 10:20 am: BEACON: Belief-En
 abled Adaptive CONtrol for Imitation Learning under Uncertainty (Speaker: 
 Moonyoung Lee) - M. Lee\, S. Bhattacharya\, G. Kantor\, O. Kroemer\n10:20 
 am - 10:40 am: POSITION PAPER: From Optimal Policies to Individual Differe
 nces: Rethinking Reinforcement Learning for Biology (Speaker: Patrick Govo
 ni) - P. Govoni\, P. Bartashevich\, C. Bergerot\, V. Chirkov\, V. Lecheval
 \, P. Romanczuk\n10:40 am - 10:50 am: Dedicated Discussion of the Position
  Paper\n10:50 am - 11:00 am: Moderated Panel with Session Speakers\n11:00 
 am - 11:10 am: General Discussion
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DTSTAMP:20260824T152240Z
DTSTART:20261021T091000Z
DTEND:20261021T104000Z
SUMMARY:SAB 2026 - Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Self-catered
URL:https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1T2o_rQ9KnMT6p4qyCSLdHZSim
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DTSTAMP:20260824T152240Z
DTSTART:20261021T104000Z
DTEND:20261021T124000Z
SUMMARY:SAB 2026 - Session (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Perception\, Navigation\, and Manipulation\n\n12:40 
 pm - 1:00 pm: EMAPF: Emotionally Modulated Local Navigation with Artificia
 l Potential Fields (Speaker: Zoe Betta) - Z. Betta\, J. Hykin\, A. Sgorbis
 sa\, R. Murphy\n1:00 pm - 1:20 pm: Probing an Embodied LLM: When Higher Ob
 servation Fidelity Hurts Problem Solving (Speaker: Oussama Zenkri) - O. Ze
 nkri\, O. Brock\n1:20 pm - 1:40 pm: Target-Anchored Fovea-Periphery Vision
  Improves Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Manipulation (Speaker: Gianluc
 a Cioccolini) - G. Cioccolini\, E. Cartoni\, G. Baldassarre\n1:40 pm - 2:0
 0 pm: SoftPINCH: EMG-Driven Soft Exoskeleton Assistance for Finger Flexion
  and Grasping (Speaker: Saravana Prashanth Murali Babu) - N. Grønvall\, M
 . Nielsen\, X. Xiong\, S. P. Murali Babu\n2:00 pm - 2:20 pm: Tactile Discr
 imination in a Soft Octopus-Inspired Robot (Eleanore Kirshner) - E. Kirshn
 er\, A. Yuan\, J. Spurgiasz\, H. Espino\, J. Krichmar\n2:20 pm - 2:30 pm: 
 Moderated Panel with Session Speakers\n2:30 pm - 2:40 pm: General Discussi
 on
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DTSTAMP:20260824T152240Z
DTSTART:20261021T124000Z
DTEND:20261021T131000Z
SUMMARY:SAB 2026 - Coffee Break
LOCATION:GNS Lobby Area
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DTSTAMP:20260824T152240Z
DTSTART:20261021T131000Z
DTEND:20261021T151000Z
SUMMARY:SAB 2026 - Session (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
DESCRIPTION:The Effects of Physical and Social Constraints on Behavior\n\n3
 :10 pm - 3:30 pm: When Does the Body Matter? A Dynamical Signature of Coup
 ling Dependence in Evolved Neural Controllers (Speaker: Collin Lucken) - C
 . Lucken\n3:30 pm - 3:50 pm: A Robot-LLM Integration Framework for Social 
 Learning Interactions (Speaker: Anna Lange) - A. Lange\, H. Ackermann\, R.
  Lazarides\, V. V. Hafner\n3:50 pm - 4:10 pm: Interoceptive Attention as D
 ynamic Homeostatic Prioritization in a Foraging Agent (Speaker: St John Gr
 imbly) - St John Grimbly\, N. Kuske\, E. Boonstra\, B. Basset\, C. van Hoo
 f\, R. Hodson\, B. Rosman\, R. Smith\, M. Solms\, J. Shock\n4:10 pm - 4:30
  pm: Body-Grounded Perspective Formation and Conative Attunement in Artifi
 cial Agents (Speaker: Hongju Pae) - H. Pae\n4:30 pm - 4:50 pm: The Social 
 Buffering Hypothesis as an Adaptive Mechanism to Regulate Stress in Artifi
 cial Agents (Speaker: Lorenzo Aloe) - L. Aloe\n4:50 pm - 5:00 pm: Moderate
 d Panel with Session Speakers\n5:00 pm - 5:10 pm: General Discussion
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UID:sab2026-session-672@sab-conference.org
DTSTAMP:20260824T152240Z
DTSTART:20261021T151000Z
DTEND:20261021T152000Z
SUMMARY:SAB 2026 - Wrap-Up
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