Three are planned, one in each year, all associated with aninternational conference with an appropriate attendance. The first workshop is on the techniques of dynamic shape acquisition, associated with a large vision conference. The second is on the techniques of accurate collection of bat acoustics, associated with a large bat conference. Year 3's workshop on biomimetic engineering, associated with one of the large Robotics Conferences, will hopefully be a showcase for some of the project's early complete sets of results, including a robotic prototype.

The workshop Visual observation and analysis of animal and insect behavior was held on December 7, 2008 in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2008) in Tampa, Florida, USA.

12 papers were accepted, about 30 people attended.

A workshop on computational techniques for analysing, restructuringand reproducing bat calls will be held in September, 2009 in conjunction with the 5th Animal Sonar Symposium in Kyoto, Japan.

Further details later.

To be decided.

A presentation of the main points of the project.

2002-2005: CIRCE (Chiroptera Inspired Robotic CEphaloid; IST-2001-35144) which reproduced, at a functional level, the echolocation system of bats by constructing a bionic bat head that was used to systematically investigate how the world is not just perceived but actively explored by bats. This bionic bat head is of similar size to a real bat head to reproduce the relevant physics and consist of an emission/reception system capable of generating/processing bat vocalisations in real-time, a multi-degree of freedom mechanical system to allow realistic pinnae movement.

2005-2010: CILIA (Customized Intelligent Life-inspired Arrays; IST-2005-016039), about sensory systems based on arrays of hairs. The project aims to identify the common principles underlying the widespread use in nature of arrays of mechanical sensory cells for the extraction of meaning under adverse conditions and to make those principles available for design of engineered systems.