News & Awards

Empirical Inference Award 01-06-2023 Majid Khadiv received the outstanding reviewer award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters for the year of 2022

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-06-2023 Oncay Yasa became Assistant Professor at HKUST in China. Oncay Yasa

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-06-2023 Zhen Yin became Full Professor at Tongji University in China. Zhen Yin

Empirical Inference Award 23-05-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf elected Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain

Perceiving Systems Award 16-05-2023 Michael J. Black, Timo Bolkart, Jinlong Yang, Xu Chen, and Mathis Petrovich receive Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2023.

Empirical Inference News 03-05-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf receives the 2022 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his groundbreaking research in the field of artificial intelligence One of the world's most important prizes in the research field of AI goes for the first time to a scientist from the Max Planck Society, to Europe for the fourth time. Bernhard Schölkopf

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-05-2023 Jongkuk Ko became Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Kookmin University in S. Korea. Jongkuk Ko

Haptic Intelligence Award 28-04-2023 Rachael Bevill Burns is named an RSS Pioneer Rachael Burns

Empirical Inference News 27-04-2023 Casting a safety net: a reliable machine learning approach for analyzing coalescing black holes Self-checking algorithm interprets gravitational-wave data An interdisciplinary team from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics has developed an algorithm that immediately checks its own calculations of merging black holes’ properties and corrects its result if necessary – inexpensively and rapidly. The machine learning method provides very accurate information about the observed gravitational waves and will be ready for use when the global network of gravitational-wave detectors starts its next observing run in May. Maximilian Dax Jonas Wildberger Jakob Macke Bernhard Schölkopf

Robotic Materials Physical Intelligence News 25-04-2023 Jellyfish-like robots could one day clean up the world’s oceans Roboticists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a jellyfish-inspired underwater robot with which they hope one day to collect waste from the bottom of the ocean. The almost noise-free prototype can trap objects underneath its body without physical contact, thereby enabling safe interactions in delicate environments such as coral reefs. Jellyfish-Bot could become an important tool for environmental remediation. Tianlu Wang Hyeong-Joon Joo Shanyuan Song Wenqi Hu Christoph Keplinger Metin Sitti

Autonomous Learning News 20-04-2023 Albane Ruaud selected to join the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting The postdoctoral researcher from the Autonomous Learning Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen is one of 635 young scientists from across the world who are given the opportunity to participate in a week of scientific exchange with some of the world’s greatest minds. Albane Ruaud

Empirical Inference Award 14-04-2023 Julius von Kügelgen: Best Paper Award, CLeaR Conference 2023

Haptic Intelligence Award 12-04-2023 Doctoral student Nataliya Rokhmanova wins a 750 EUR travel grant to attend the 2023 CHI Doctoral Consortium in Hamburg, Germany Nataliya Rokhmanova

Perceiving Systems Award 05-04-2023 Shashank Tripathi receives the Meta PhD Research Fellowship Award 2023.

Robotic Materials Award 03-04-2023 Daniela Macari awarded 2nd place of the best poster award in RoboSoft 2023 Daniela Macari

Autonomous Learning Appointment 01-04-2023 Georg Martius is appointed W3 professor at the University of Tübingen

Physical Intelligence 01-04-2023 Mehmet Efe Tiryaki and Metin Sitti received the Best Medical Robotics Award Honorable Mention in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference Mehmet Efe Tiryaki Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 30-03-2023 Birgül Akolpoglu selected to join the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting The doctoral researcher from the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, is one of 635 young scientists from across the world who are given the opportunity to participate in a week of scientific exchange with some of the world’s greatest minds. Birgül Akolpoglu Metin Sitti

Robotic Materials News 22-03-2023 Biodegradable artificial muscles: going green in the field of soft robotics Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and at University of Colorado Boulder in the US developed fully biodegradable, high-performance artificial muscles. Their research project marks another step towards green technology becoming a lasting trend in the field of soft robotics. Ellen Rumley Philipp Rothemund Zachary Yoder Benjamin Karrer Christoph Keplinger Alona Shagan

Dynamic Locomotion 20-03-2023 Publication: Muscle prestimulation tunes velocity preflex in simulated perturbed hopping

Physical Intelligence Award 20-03-2023 Wenbin Kang received the Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship. Wenbin Kang

Empirical Inference Award 07-03-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf, Asteroid (53839) Schölkopf = 2000 EY 197

Haptic Intelligence Award 03-03-2023 Former doctoral student Alexis E. Block is selected for the "Microsoft Future Leaders in Robotics and AI" seminar series organized by the Maryland Robotics Center Alexis Block

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-03-2023 Wei Feng became Full Professor at University of Science and Technology of China in China. Wei Feng

Empirical Inference Award 28-02-2023 Francesco Locatello (Alumnus) received the Hector-Foundation-Award 2023

Dynamic Locomotion 25-02-2023 Slack-based Tunable Damping was published in Scientific Reports Our work on 'Slack-based Tunable Damping' was published in Scientific Reports An Mo Fabio Izzi Emre Cemal Gönen Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Haptic Intelligence Award 12-02-2023 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for her contributions to the peer-review process of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Embodied Vision News 02-02-2023 3 papers accepted at IEEE ICRA 2023 3 out of 3 paper submission got accepted at IEEE ICRA 2023!

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-02-2023 Jaekang Kim became Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Gachon University in S. Korea. Jaekang Kim

Physical Intelligence Award 30-01-2023 Ziyu Ren was honored with the ETH Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis. Ziyu Ren

Physical Intelligence News 30-01-2023 Ziyu Ren wins ETH Silver Medal The postdoctoral researcher at MPI-IS was honored for his outstanding doctoral thesis Ziyu Ren Metin Sitti

News 19-01-2023 Nomination sought for the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen The MPI for Intelligent Systems expects to have an opening for a director and scientific member of the Max Planck Society (MPG) in areas related to machine learning, including modern robotics, and natural language understanding. Eva Laemmerhirt

Physical Intelligence 01-01-2023 Metin Sitti was elected as the Highly Cited Researcher and received the Material Science Leader Award by Clarivate. Metin Sitti

Robotic Materials Award 15-12-2022 Christoph Keplinger is awarded a research grant, funded by the FHG-MPG Cooperation Program, for €2M, over 4 years, to develop wearable assistive exosuits for lower limb and human trunk (MaxwellSuits). Christoph M. Keplinger Adrian Koh

Empirical Inference Award 03-12-2022 Hamza Keurti, Hsiao-Ru Pan, Michel Besserve, Benjamin Grewe, Bernhard Schölkopf: Best abstract award at the NeurReps workshop @ NeurIPS 2022 for the paper "Homomorphism AutoEncoder — Learning Group Structured Representations from Observed Transitions"

Physics for Inference and Optimization Award 01-12-2022 Caterina De Bacco has been awarded the MPI-IS Gender Equality Prize. The prize was established to honor a person who has contributed significantly to gender equality at MPI-IS in recent years. Caterina De Bacco

Physical Intelligence Award 01-12-2022 Alp Can Karacakol received the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems Postdoctoral Fellowship. Alp Can Karacakol

Embodied Vision News 01-12-2022 Best Student Paper Award at BMVC 2022 Best Student Paper Award at the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2022 for the paper "Event-based Non-rigid Reconstruction from Contours" by Yuxuan Xue, Haolong Li, Stefan Leutenegger, and Joerg Stueckler Yuxuan Xue Haolong Li Jörg Stückler

Embodied Vision Award 01-12-2022 Yuxuan Xue, Haolong Li, Stefan Leutenegger, and Jörg Stückler receive the Best Student Paper Award at the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2022 for their paper "Event-based Non-rigid Reconstruction from Contours". Yuxuan Xue Haolong Li Jörg Stückler

Learning and Dynamical Systems News 28-11-2022 Presentation at NeurIPS Our work "Sampling without replacement leads to faster rates in finite-sum minimax optimization" was accepted at NeurIPS 2023.

Organizational Leadership and Diversity Award 22-11-2022 Add-on Fellowship for interdisciplinary research Ksenia Keplinger

News 18-11-2022 Schokoroboter und Deepfakes – Ein Comic Essay über Künstliche Intelligenz Neuer Comic des Tübingen AI Center verbildlicht Gedanken Jugendlicher rund um Künstliche Intelligenz

Haptic Intelligence News 15-11-2022 Gokhan Serhat and Yitian Shao become faculty members at prestigious European universities KU Leuven and TU Dresden have hired outstanding postdoctoral researchers from the MPI-IS Haptic Intelligence Department Gokhan Serhat Yitian Shao

Physical Intelligence News 09-11-2022 Aarushi Bhargava receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his soft robotic research in Germany. Aarushi Bhargava Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 09-11-2022 Jongkuk Ko receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his soft robotic research in Germany. Jongkuk Ko Metin Sitti

Haptic Intelligence Appointment 08-11-2022 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Physical Intelligence News 08-11-2022 Mingchao Zhang receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his soft robotic research in Germany. Mingchao Zhang Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 07-11-2022 Aniket Pal receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his soft robotic research in Germany. Aniket Pal Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 06-11-2022 Yingdan Wu receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his soft robotic research in Germany. Yingdan Wu Metin Sitti

News 03-11-2022 Statement of the Max Planck Society on the brutal repression of protests in Iran The Max Planck Society strongly condemns the violence against students, university staff, and other peaceful protesters in Iran The Max Planck Society expresses its solidarity with the students and scientists in Iran in their desire for more freedom and equal rights. It condemns the brutal actions of the security forces in the strongest possible terms and demands the immediate release of all those arrested in the course of the protests.

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