Advances in Robot Learning : 8th European Workshop on Learning Robots EWLR 8 Lausanne Switzerland September 18 1999 Proceedings This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post workshop proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on Learning Robots EWLR99 held in Lausanne Switzerland in September 1999.The seven revised full workshop papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Also included are two invited full papers. Among the topics addressed are map building for robot navigation multi task reinforcement learning neural network approaches example based learning situated agents planning maps for mobile robots path finding autonomous robots and biologically inspired approaches