Publications

The collection of works that I contributed to produce, ordered by the type of the venue and by the date of publication.

Jour
Unraveling Creativity Through Variability: A Comparison of LLMs and Humans in an Educational Q&A Scenario

Michele Braccini, Gianluca Aguzzi, Paolo Baldini  —  Technology, Knowledge and Learning
February 2026

Jour
Fault Recovery through Online Adaptation of Boolean Network robots

Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli  —  Sensors
September 2025

Jour
Cell–Cell interactions: how coupled Boolean Networks tend to criticality

Paolo Baldini, Andrea Roli, Michele Braccini  —  Artificial Life
February 2025

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On the performance of Online Adaptation of robots controlled by Nanowire Networks

Paolo Baldini, Andrea Roli, Michele Braccini  —  IEEE Access
December 2023

Conf
On the LLM Robustness in a Simulated Conversational XR Scenario: A Preliminary Semantic Analysis

Michele Braccini, Gianluca Aguzzi, Paolo Baldini, Andrea Roli  —  ICIAP 2025 — 23rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing / HUARL 2025 — The 1st International Workshop on Humans in the eXtended Artificial Intelligence Loop, Rome, Italy
January 2026

Conf
Impact of LLM—assisted coding in creativity and robustness of robot controllers

Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli  —  HAIC 2025 — First International Workshop on Human-AI Collaborative Systems, Bologna, Italy
October 2025

Conf
Emergent dynamics in heterogeneous life-like Cellular Automata

Aarati Shrestha, Felix Reimers, Sanyam Jain, Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli, Stefano Nichele  —  XVIII International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Namur, Belgium
July 2025

Conf
Cooperation in evolved modular soft robots

Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Filippo Benvenuti, Eric Medvet, Andrea Roli, Francesco Rusin  —  XVIII International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Namur, Belgium
July 2025

Conf
An investigation of graceful degradation in Boolean Network robots subject to Online Adaptation

Michele Braccini, Paolo Baldini, Andrea Roli  —  XVII International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Venice, Italy
March 2024

Conf
Online Adaptation of robots controlled by Nanowire Networks: a preliminary study

Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Andrea Roli  —  XVI International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (WIVACE), Gaeta, Italy
April 2023

Pre-print
Reservoir Computing in robotics: a review

Paolo Baldini  —  arXiv
June 2022

Poster
Adattamento Online di sistemi robotici

Paolo Baldini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
September 2025

Thesis
Mechanisms for Online Adaptation in robots: a comparative study

Benedetta Pacilli. Supervisor: Andrea Roli, Co-Supervisor: Paolo Baldini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
July 2025

Thesis
Evolution in materia: esperimenti con le Nanowire Networks

Noemi Valentini. Supervisor: Andrea Roli, Co-Supervisor: Eric Medvet, Michele Braccini, Paolo Baldini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
July 2024

Thesis
Self-assembly in voxel-based robots

Filippo Benvenuti. Supervisor: Andrea Roli, Co-Supervisor: Eric Medvet, Michele Braccini, Paolo Baldini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
March 2024

Thesis
Online Adaptation of robots controlled by Nanowire Networks

Paolo Baldini. Supervisor: Andrea Roli, Co-Supervisor: Michele Braccini  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
March 2022

Thesis
Progettazione e sviluppo di un modulo sensoristico e di comunicazione per la piattaforma robotica AlpaBot

Paolo Baldini. Supervisor: Andrea Roli  —  Università di Bologna — Alma Mater Studiorum
October 2019
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