Kai Olav Ellefsen

Associate professor, Department for Informatics, University of Oslo

MishMash role: Member · WP1 , WP2 , WP4 , WP7

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Other projects

• Norwegian Centre for Embodied AI (NCEI)
• Predictive and Intuitive Robot Companion (PIRC)
• RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion
• ROBOFARMER - Safe and Reliable Sensing, Learning and Control of an Autonomous Multi-arm Agri-robot Platform
• Smart AUVs for detection and quantification of greenhouse gas seepage in the oceans

Latest results

Type

Book chapter

1. Book chapter, 2025

   Integrating Bilevel Planning and Offline Skill Learning for Enhancing Mobile Manipulation

   Shin Watanabe ; Geir Horn ; Jim Tørresen ; Kai Olav Ellefsen

2. Book chapter, 2025

   Integrating Sample Inheritance into Bayesian Optimization for Evolutionary Robotics

   Ege de Bruin ; Kyrre Glette ; Kai Olav Ellefsen

3. Book chapter, 2025

   Fast or Slow: Adaptive Decision Making in Reinforcement Learning with Pre-Trained LLMs

   Katrine Linnea Nergård ; Kai Olav Ellefsen ; Jim Tørresen

4. Book chapter, 2025

   Generational Replacement and Learning for High-Performing and Diverse Populations in Evolvable Robots

   Ege de Bruin ; Kyrre Glette ; Kai Olav Ellefsen

Journal article

1. Journal article, 2026

   Lamarckian Inheritance in Dynamic Environments: How Key Variables Affect Evolutionary Dynamics

   Ege de Bruin ; Kyrre Glette ; Kai Olav Ellefsen

2. Journal article, 2026

   Sensor movement drives emergent attention and scalability in active neural cellular automata

   Mia-Katrin Ose Kvalsund ; Kai Olav Ellefsen ; Kyrre Glette ; Sidney Pontes-Filho ; Mikkel Elle Lepperød

3. Journal article, 2026

   Dual Process Dreamer: Fast and Slow Decision-Making with World Models

   Tobias Lømo ; Adel Baselizadeh ; Kai Olav Ellefsen ; Jim Tørresen

4. Journal article, 2025

   Optimal Sampling Patterns for Robotic Environmental Monitoring

   Ivar-Kristian Waarum ; Ann Elisabeth Albright Blomberg ; Thomas Røbekk Krogstad ; Marius Dewar ; Kai Olav Ellefsen

Popular science article

1. Popular science article, 2026

   Fem grunner til at det ikke finnes virkelig intelligente roboter - Titan.uio.no

   Kai Olav Ellefsen

Book anthology

1. Book anthology, 2025

   2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)

   Shin Watanabe ; Geir Horn ; Jim Tørresen ; Kai Olav Ellefsen

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