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Perceiving Systems News 31-10-2022 The Koenderink Prize at ECCV 2022 From cartoons to science: The Sintel dataset at 10 years The Sintel optical flow dataset appeared at ECCV 2012. Ten years later, at ECCV 2022, it was awarded the Koenderink Prize for work that has stood the test of time. Michael Black Jonas Wulff Daniel Butler Garrett Stanley

Haptic Intelligence Award 25-10-2022 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is selected as an honoree of 35 Women in Robotics Engineering and Science (WiRES), announced at IROS Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Perceiving Systems Award 25-10-2022 Michael J. Black et al: Koenderink Prize at ECCV 2022 for work that has stood the test of time. Awarded for the paper "A naturalistic open source movie for optical flow evaluation," by Butler, D. J., Wulff, J., Stanley, G. B., Black, M. J., which appeared at the European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), pages: 611-625, Part IV, LNCS 7577, October 2012

Perceiving Systems Award 24-10-2022 Ahmed A. A. Osman received Outstanding Reviewer Award from the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.

Dynamic Locomotion 24-10-2022 Published at ICRA 2022: Gastrocnemius and Power Amplifier Soleus Spring-Tendons Achieve Fast Human-like Walking in a Bipedal Robot Bernadett Kiss presents her work on lower leg biomechanics at ICRA 2022, and demos the Ecowalker robot. This is collaborative work together with Alexandra Buchmann and Daniel Renjewski (TU Munich). Bernadett Kiss Emre Cemal Gönen An Mo Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Empirical Inference News 18-10-2022 Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz zeichnet Schülerteams aus Deutschlands KI-Nachwuchs begeisterte beim Finale des führenden Wettbewerbs rund um Künstliche Intelligenz. Ziel aller Teilnehmenden: Mithilfe von KI-Anwendungen die Welt verbessern Bernhard Schölkopf Wieland Brendel

News 07-10-2022 CLS doctoral fellowships 2023: Call for applications In our fully-funded doctoral fellowship program, Ph.D. students are co-supervised by one advisor from ETH Zurich and one from the Max Planck Society, primarily the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Stuttgart / Tuebingen, Germany). All doctoral fellows will register as graduate students at ETH Zurich and, upon successful completion of their Ph.D. project, will be granted a doctoral degree by ETH. Sarah Danes

News 07-10-2022 ELLIS PhD Program: Call for applications 2022 Apply by November 15, 2022, to join the ELLIS PhD Program in 2023 Lynn Anthonissen

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Dong Wook Kim received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Germany. Dong Wook Kim

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Erdost Yildiz has been awarded the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Erdost Yildiz

Haptic Intelligence Appointment 01-10-2022 Gokhan Serhat becomes Assistant Professor at KU Leuven Gokhan Serhat

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Mengmeng Sun received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Germany. Mengmeng Sun

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Metin Sitti received the new grant from DFG, Soft Material Robotic Systems (SPP2100) Phase II Project, "Medizinische Miniaturroboter mit weichem Körper in unserem Körper," GZ: SI 2197/5-1. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 01-10-2022 Xianqiang Bao received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Germany. Xianqiang Bao

News 29-09-2022 CLS community gathers at the 2022 Fellows Retreat Event over three days at Hotel Schloss Weitenburg attracts 36 participants. Bernhard Schölkopf Sarah Danes

Organizational Leadership and Diversity 29-09-2022 Panel Discussion on Bias in AI

Perceiving Systems Award 27-09-2022 Huang, Y., Taheri, O., Black, M. J., Tzionas, D. received Honorable mention for best paper: "InterCap: Joint Markerless 3D Tracking of Humans and Objects in Interaction", GCPR 2022.

Perceiving Systems Award 27-09-2022 Partha Ghosh, Dominik Zietlow, Michael J. Black, Larry Davis, and Xiaochen Hu win Best Paper, German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR), 2022, for the paper "InvGAN: Invertible GANs"

Organizational Leadership and Diversity Award 17-09-2022 Wolfgang-Heilmann-Prize Ksenia Keplinger

Robotic Materials Award 09-09-2022 Sophie Kirkman is awarded best lightning talk at the IMPRS bootcamp. Sophie Kirkman

Modern Magnetic Systems News 09-09-2022 Super-dense packing of hydrogen molecules on a surface In a paper in Nature Chemistry, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Technische Universität Dresden, the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory describe the formation of a superdense monolayer of hydrogen on highly ordered mesoporous silica near the boiling temperature. Theoretical studies and simulations confirm the experimental observations of the unusually high hydrogen density in the adsorbed layer and may also open new possibilities for enhancing the volumetric capacity of cryogenic hydrogen storage systems. Rafael Balderas Xicohténcatl Michael Hirscher

Robotic Materials Appointment 07-09-2022 Christoph Keplinger is appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Stuttgart. Christoph Keplinger

Dynamic Locomotion Appointment 01-09-2022 Alexander Badri-Spröwitz becomes Associate Professor at KU Leuven Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 22-08-2022 Crash-landing robots take inspiration from geckos Insights gained from the hard landings of tree-climbing geckos leads to better and controlled perching in robotic aerial vehicles. Ardian Jusufi Mrudul Chellapurath Pranav Khandelwal Thomas David Rottier Fabian Schwab

News 15-08-2022 The One-Wheel Cubli New youtube video available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM74EBbetGU .

News 15-08-2022 The One-Wheel Cubli New youtube video available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM74EBbetGU .

Learning and Dynamical Systems News 15-08-2022 The One-Wheel Cubli A new balancing robot, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM74EBbetGU .

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-08-2022 Amirreza Aghakhani became Assistant Professor at the University of Stuttgart Amirreza Aghakhani

Empirical Inference Award 01-08-2022 Bernhard Schölkopf: Thomas Mann Honorary Fellowship 2022, Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V.

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Appointment 01-08-2022 Hannah-Noa Barad becomes Assistant Professor at the Bar Ilan University

Rationality Enhancement News 31-07-2022 ''Boosting human decision-making with AI-generated decision aids” is going to be published! Our work „Boosting human decision-making with AI-generated decision aids" has been accepted in Computational Brain & Behavior. We extend our interpretability method for automated description of planning strategies and show that it can help people make better, more farsighted decisions. Our findings suggest that AI-powered boosting might have potential for improving human decision-making in the real world. Frederic Becker Julian Skirzynski Falk Lieder

Autonomous Learning News 26-07-2022 Georg Martius receives ERC Consolidator Grant Autonomous Learning research group at the MPI-IS in Tübingen is awarded € 2 million for a period of 5 years. Georg Martius

Haptic Intelligence Award 26-07-2022 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker participates in the Berlin Summit on Robotics 2022 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

News 22-07-2022 Zhenan Bao holds Max Planck Lecture 2022 Event continues with Intelligent Systems Summer Colloquium featuring a great line-up of speakers Metin Sitti Christoph Keplinger Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Autonomous Learning Award 21-07-2022 ERC Consolidator Grant for the project REAL-RL = Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Versatile Robots in the Real World.

Empirical Inference Award 20-07-2022 Bernhard Schölkopf, Dominik Janzing (Alumnus), Jonas Peters (Alumnus), Eleni Sgouritsa (Alumna), Kun Zhang (Alumnus) and Joris Mooij: Test of Time Honorable Mention at ICML 2022 for their 2012 paper "On causal and anticausal learning".

Dynamic Locomotion News 18-07-2022 Learning plastic matching Learning plastic matching of robot dynamics in closed loop Central Pattern Generators at Nature Machine Intelligence Felix Ruppert Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Dynamic Locomotion 18-07-2022 NMI publication: Learning plastic matching of robot dynamics in closed-loop central pattern generators We published our work on plastic learning in legged robots, with central pattern generators, in Nature Machine Intelligence. Felix Ruppert Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Dynamic Locomotion News 18-07-2022 Robot dog learns to walk in one hour Virtual spinal cord is continuously optimized Like a newborn animal, a four-legged robot stumbles around during its first walking attempts. But while a foal or a giraffe needs much longer to master walking, the robot learns to move forward fluently in just one hour. A computer program acts as the artificial presentation of the animal’s spinal cord, and learns to optimize the robot's movement in a short time. The artificial neural network is not yet ideally adjusted at the beginning, but rapidly self-adjusts. On July 18, the research work which is at the intersection of robotics and biology was published in the renowned journal Nature Machine Intelligence. Felix Ruppert Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Physical Intelligence News 15-07-2022 Bacteria-based biohybrid microrobots on a mission to one day battle cancer Scientists add artificial components to bacteria for better control and an extra therapeutic effect in seeking and destroying tumor cells Birgül Akolpoglu Yunus Alapan Nihal Olcay Dogan Saadet Baltaci Oncay Yasa Gulsen Aybar Tural Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 07-07-2022 Tianlu Wang is awarded Young Researcher Award at the 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference Tianlu Wang

Physical Intelligence News 07-07-2022 Young Researcher Award at the 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference Tianlu Wang won the Young Researcher Award at the 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Galway, Ireland! Tianlu Wang Metin Sitti

Materials Appointment 04-07-2022 Gunther Richter has been appointed Honorarprofessor at the University of Stuttgart

Physical Intelligence News 04-07-2022 Professor Xuanhe Zhao has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award Professor Xuanhe Zhao from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, Cambridge, USA, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation: Metin Sitti Christoph Keplinger

News 01-07-2022 Almost 20 million for Tübingen AI Center Permanent funding for AI competence centers in Germany Bernhard Schölkopf Matthias Bethge

Haptic Intelligence Appointment 01-07-2022 Yitian Shao becomes Junior Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden Yitian Shao

News 30-06-2022 2022 Science & Innovation Days Tübingen Hands-on Research! The Tübingen Max Planck Campus opens its doors and labs on Saturday, July 2, 2022 University of Tübingen, Max Planck Campus, Cyber Valley, Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media and the Technology Promotion Reutlingen-Tübingen offer four days of discussions, events, lectures and guided tours

Haptic Intelligence Award 29-06-2022 Guido Caccianiga and KJK are best poster finalists at the Hamlyn Symposium Guido Caccianiga

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 24-06-2022 Highlight in Phys. Rev. Letters: Amplification of acoustic forces Highlighted as Physics Focus & Editor's suggestion The work shows how centimeter-scale objects in liquid can be manipulated using the mutual attraction of two arrays of air bubbles in the presence of sound waves and it is part of an extensive Physics Focus by Philip Ball. Rahul Goyal Athanasios Athanassiadis Zhichao Ma Peer Fischer

Physical Intelligence News 23-06-2022 Erdost Yildiz receives Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Erdost Yıldız, a postdoctoral researcher in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship. The grant will allow him to conduct his postdoctoral research in Germany. Erdost Yildiz Metin Sitti Richard Segar

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