Stefan Schaal is Associate Professor of Computer Science, and is affiliated with the Neuroscience Program at the University of Southern California.

Auke Jan Ijspeert is SNF Assistant Professor and Head of the Biologically Inspired Robotics Group in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.

Aude Billard is Professor, School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Director of the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA).

Sethu Vijayakumar is Lecturer and Head of the Statistical Learning and Motor Control Group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

John Hallam is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and Senior Lecturer in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

Jean-Arcady Meyer is Emeritus Research Director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and a researcher at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris.