Why can’t robots walk like a human?
Why did we end up having a brain?

South African scientist Lyall Watson quoted “If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.”

However, that doesn’t seem to discourage neuroscientists. On the contrary, it rather stimulates their curiosity and persistence  to – amongst other things – explore the causes of the evolution of human brain. Did human brain evolve in order to support our increased need for communication? Did it grow larger to store more information? Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert insists that human brain exists for one reason only: to control movement.

With his lecture entitled “Why do we have a brain”, on Saturday 9 April 2016 at 20:00, Dr Daniel Wolpert, Professor at the Department of Engineering of Cambridge University, will guide the Athens Science Festival audience through the complexity of the seemingly natural and effortless human movement and reveal why we still haven’t been able to create machines performing equally subtle movements.