News & Awards

Autonomous Vision Award 19-06-2018 Andreas Geiger receives the IEEE PAMI Young Researcher Award

Autonomous Learning Award 19-06-2018 Michal Rolinek is awarded with a CVPR Honorable Mention for the paper 'Efficient Optimization for Rank-based Loss Functions'

Autonomous Learning News 19-06-2018 CVPR Honorable Mention The paper 'Efficient Optimization for Rank-based Loss Functions', on which Michal Rolinek was contributing to, received the CVPR Honorable Mention award. Michal Rolinek

Dynamic Locomotion News 19-06-2018 Cooperation work on Oncilla Open-Source Quadruped Robot Open-Source Quadruped Robot Our publication behind the open-source Oncilla quadruped robot project, developed at the Biorobotics Laboratory at EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland and several other universities in Europe, just has been published. Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Haptic Intelligence News 15-06-2018 Hasti Seifi wins EuroHaptics Society prize for best Ph.D. thesis Dr. Hasti Seifi is the winner of the 2017 EuroHaptics Society award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of haptics. While Ms. Seifi is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart, the award honors research she conducted at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada, where she completed her doctorate in Computer Science under the supervision of Professor Karon E. MacLean. Hasti Seifi Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 15-06-2018 Postdoc Hasti Seifi wins the 2017 EuroHaptics Society prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of haptics; she earned her doctorate with Karon MacLean at UBC in Canada Hasti Seifi

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 12-06-2018 Kai Melde won the "Excellent Communication Award" at the International Conference on Ultrasonics 2018 in Caparica Portugal.

Empirical Inference News 05-06-2018 Machine Learning Frontiers in Precision Medicine Dept. Empirical Inference is part of this new scientific network The Marie Curie Innovative Training Network "Machine Learning Frontiers in Precision Medicine" is funded by the European Commission with 3.6 Mio € for four years (2019-2022). It is coordinated by Professor Karsten Borgwardt from the Machine Learning and Computational Biology Lab of ETH Zurich. Bernhard Schölkopf

Modern Magnetic Systems News 04-06-2018 Joachim Gräfe erhält Otto-Hahn-Medaille der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Der Nanomagnetismus-Forscher wird für seine innovative Forschung der Magnetisierungsdynamik auf der Nanoskala, insbesondere der Magnonik, durch den Einsatz modernster Röntgenmikroskopie ausgezeichnet. Joachim Gräfe

Modern Magnetic Systems Award 01-06-2018 Joachim Gräfe receives the Otto-Hahn-Medal for his PhD Thesis "Statische und dynamische Magnetisierungseigenschaften nanoskaliger Überstrukturen", written at the MPI for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart

Intelligent Control Systems Physics for Inference and Optimization Rationality Enhancement Embodied Vision Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 25-05-2018 Cyber Valley attracts research group leaders from around the world Research cooperation in the field of Intelligent Systems gains momentum Michael Black Tamara Almeyda

Autonomous Vision News 25-05-2018 Fully Funded PhD Positions at IMPRS-IS Application Deadline: Nov 15, 2018 The International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems is now hiring our 2019 generation of Ph.D. students. They will contribute to world-leading research in areas such as machine learning, computer vision, robot dynamics and control, micro- and nano-robotics, and haptics. Leila Masri

Haptic Intelligence News 23-05-2018 Brent Gillespie receives Humboldt Research Award The award will allow the visiting professor in the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart to extend his stay in Germany. Brent Gillespie Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Dynamic Locomotion News 21-05-2018 ICRA2018: Shaping in Practice: Training Wheels to Learn Fast Hopping Directly in Hardware Our paper 'Shaping in Practice: Training Wheels to Learn Fast Hopping Directly in Hardware' was accepted for ICRA2018. It will be presented in May 2018 in Brisbane. See you there! Steve Heim Felix Ruppert Alborz Aghamaleki Sarvestani Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Physical Intelligence News 17-05-2018 Research prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for Prof. Dr. David H. Gracias Sabbatical of the recipient will take place in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.

Perceiving Systems Award 16-05-2018 Michael J. Black, Alumni Research Award, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 2018

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 16-05-2018 Best of luck – start at IIT Pisa Dr. Stefano Palagi moves back to Italy and joins the Bioinspired Soft Robotics research team at the IIT and the Center for Micro-BioRobotics in Pisa. Best of luck and lots of success! Stefano Palagi Peer Fischer

Dynamic Locomotion News 14-05-2018 SIMPAR2018: Learning from Outside the Viability Kernel Our paper 'Learning from Outside the Viability Kernel: Why we Should Build Robots that can Fail with Grace ' was accepted for SIMPAR2018. Steve Heim will present his work in May 2018 in Brisbane (SIMPAR: Brisbane, Australia, 16-19 May 2018). Steve Heim Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Autonomous Learning News 01-05-2018 ALIFE 2018 paper accepted Our paper 'Systematic self-exploration of behaviors for robots in a dynamical systems framework' was accepted for ALIFE 2018 and will be presented in Tokyo, July 2018. Cristina Pinneri Georg Martius

Haptic Intelligence Award 01-05-2018 Visiting Professor Brent Gillespie receives a Humbold Research Award Brent Gillespie

Dynamic Locomotion News 27-04-2018 Alexander Spröwitz presents research at final meeting of DFG project 'Das verdatete Tier' Alexander Spröwitz gives an invited talk at the final DFG project meeting 'Das verdatete Tier' at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. This DFG project final meeting is organized by Prof. Dr. Stefan Rieger and Ina Bolinski, M.A. . Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Physical Intelligence News 26-04-2018 Multifunctional bacterial microswimmer able to deliver cargo and destroy itself The untethered biohybrid microswimmer is able to transport and deliver cargo encapsulated into a guidable red blood cell, while an attached bacterium, one of the most efficient swimmers in nature, acts as a propeller to move it forward. Once it has reached its destination and delivered its cargo, the scientists can destroy the microswimmer using infrared light. Yunus Alapan Oncay Yasa Metin Sitti

Autonomous Motion Award 25-04-2018 Best Paper of RA-L 2017, Finalist of Best Robotic Vision Paper Award of ICRA 2017

Autonomous Motion News 25-04-2018 Best paper award in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters "Probabilistic Articulated Real-Time Tracking for Robot Manipulation" The paper has been published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 577-584, April 2017. It has been considered the best paper published on IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in 2017. IEEE RA-L published 305 papers in 2017. Cristina Garcia Cifuentes Manuel Wüthrich Stefan Schaal Jeannette Bohg Jan Issac

Empirical Inference News 24-04-2018 Initiative to establish a European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems Warnung vor der Konkurrenz aus USA und China Warning about the competition from the USA and China - appeal to politics Bernhard Schölkopf

Haptic Intelligence Award 21-04-2018 Postdoc Hyosang Lee is selected to participate in the RSS Pioneers 2018 Workshop Hyosang Lee

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 20-04-2018 Peer Fischer wins an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (2,5 M€).

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 20-04-2018 Peer Fischer receives ERC Advanced Grant The head of the Micro, Nano and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart receives 2.5 Mio Euro from the European Research Council (ERC), which funds cutting-edge research in all disciplines. Peer Fischer

Perceiving Systems Award 19-04-2018 CVPR 2018 Outstanding Reviewer awards for current and former PS members Varun Jampani, Christoph Lassner, Juergen Gall, Yi-Hsuan Tsai, Julietta Martinez, Fatma Güney, Lars Mascheder, Gernot Riegler, Deqing Sun.

Autonomous Vision News 16-04-2018 Eshed Ohn-Bar receives Humboldt Fellowship Eshed Ohn-Bar from CMU receives Humboldt Fellowship and will join AVG in December as a post-doctoral researcher!

Haptic Intelligence News 16-04-2018 Hyosang Lee receives fellowship from South Korean Government Another prestigious fellowship for one of the Postdocs of the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Hyosang Lee Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 16-04-2018 Postdoc Hyosang Lee receives a fellowship from the South Korean National Research Foundation to support his postdoctoral research in the HI Department Hyosang Lee

Smart Nanoplasmonics News 13-04-2018 Mimicking nanoscale natural movements with the help of DNA Origami Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems together with researchers at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Stuttgart use a technique called DNA origami to mimic a multitude of vital movements seen in nature, such as the sliding motion exerted by protein motors during cell division. Their invention, which is a thousand times smaller than a human hair, features a preliminary attempt to construct nanoscale analogues of the mysterious natural machines in living cells. Laura Na Liu Maximilian Urban Chao Zhou

News 06-04-2018 Cyber Valley video: "Artificial Intelligence finds a center" Kurzes Video Cyber Valley is featured in a video produced by the Digital BW platform, featuring the initiative as an important part of Baden-Württemberg´s digitization strategy. Claudia Daefler

Autonomous Motion Award 03-04-2018 Best paper finalist at ICRA 2018

Autonomous Motion News 03-04-2018 Best paper finalist at ICRA 2018 This paper is among the 5 best of about 2500 submissions. The 2018 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will take place from 21 until 25 May 2018 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia. Franzi Meier Daniel Kappler Stefan Schaal

Haptic Intelligence Award 01-04-2018 Postdoc Hasti Seifi receives a two-year fellowship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada to support her postdoctoral research in the HI Department Hasti Seifi

Haptic Intelligence News 27-03-2018 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker at the IEEE Haptics Symposium 2018 The Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems leads the team that is organizing this vibrant forum for haptics researchers. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Perceiving Systems Award 24-03-2018 Best Poster Award, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Essstörungen (DGESS), 2018, Körper Sprache: Sprachliche Repräsentation von Körpern bei Patientinnen und Patienten mit Essstörungen, by Walder L., Quiros-Ramirez M.A., Mohler B., Black M.J., Keizer A., Zipfel S., Giel K., Mölbert S.

Empirical Inference Award 19-03-2018 Bernhard Schölkopf: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2018, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinsschaft (DFG).

Empirical Inference News 19-03-2018 Award Ceremony of 2018 Leibniz Prize Bernhard Schölkopf receives one of the Leibniz Prizes in Berlin - short video about his and his team´s research on machine learning (in German) "I am very pleased about the Leibniz Prize", says Director Bernhard Schölkopf. "I see it as an award for all my employees and for the research field of machine learning, and it should benefit both in the future. We are only at the beginning, and want to investigate further how computers and living beings can learn to better understand the organizational principles of intelligent behavior." Bernhard Schölkopf

Empirical Inference News 16-03-2018 Süddeutsche Zeitung publiziert Meinungsbeitrag von Bernhard Schölkopf Der Direktor der Abteilung für Empirische Inferenz veröffentlicht einen Gastbeitrag über Künstliche Intelligenz auf Seite 2 der Süddeutschen Zeitung. Thema ist die Kybernetische Revolution und dass Europa dafür die besten Köpfe braucht. Bernhard Schölkopf Claudia Daefler

Physical Intelligence News 12-03-2018 Yunus Alapan to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings The postdoctoral researcher from the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart is one of the 600 young scientists who is given the opportunity for a week of scientific exchange with the greatest minds in medical research. Yunus Alapan Metin Sitti

Dynamic Locomotion Award 09-03-2018 Steve Heim receives an ICRA 2018 RAS Travel Grant. Congratulations.

Haptic Intelligence Award 05-03-2018 Alexis E. Block is elected as co-general chair of the HRI Pioneers 2019 Workshop Alexis Block

Haptic Intelligence Award 05-03-2018 Rachael L'Orsa receives a four-month DAAD scholarship to visit the HI Department Rachael Lorsa

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 02-03-2018 Best of luck - Move to Cambridge Dr. Hyeon-Ho Jeong starts his Postdoc at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. We wish him lots of success. Jeong Hyeon-Ho Peer Fischer

Autonomous Vision Perceiving Systems News 01-03-2018 Andreas Geiger zum ordentlichen Professor an der Universität Tübingen berufen Am 1. März begann Geiger die Professur für "Learning-based Computer Vision" an der über 500 Jahre alten, renommierten Universität Tübingen. Geiger leitet weiterhin eine Forschungsgruppe am MPI-IS in Tübingen. Andreas Geiger

Dynamic Locomotion News 26-02-2018 Viktoriia Kamska joins DLG Viktoriia Kamska is joining DLG as a phd candidate researcher. Welcome! Viktoriia Kamska

Physical Intelligence News 22-02-2018 Four Postdoc researchers join the Physical Intelligence Department thanks to a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Each year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants approximately 500 fellowships to Postdoctoral Researchers of all nationalities and disciplines from abroad to continue their research in Germany. Four AvH fellows join the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart. Zoey Davidson Ville Liimatainen Utku Culha Metin Sitti Abdon Pena-Francesch

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