Francesco Mondada

Francesco Mondada is a Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the EE department. His research is associated with the Mobots Group. He holds multiple titles, including Professor titulaire, and is involved in various academic roles such as Director académique of the Centre des sciences de l'apprentissage and Director de programme doctoral a.i. for the Programme doctoral Learning sciences. He teaches courses such as Basics of mobile robotics, MICRO-452, and Robotics practicals, MICRO-453. His research interests include mobile robotics, bio-inspired robotics, and educational robotics.

Francesco Mondada is a robotics researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, specializing in Robotics, Education, and Mechatronics. His work focuses on developing educational tools and robotic systems for engineering education and research. Mondada has contributed significantly to the design of educational robots such as the e-puck and marXbot, which are used to teach engineering and foster computational thinking. His research also explores swarm robotics, including the development of heterogeneous robotic swarms and self-organized behaviors in robotic systems. He has investigated the integration of robots into groups of insects and the evolution of autonomous robotic behaviors through genetic algorithms and neural networks.