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Robotic Materials News 18-09-2024 Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules shape-shift into versatile robots Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart combined soft artificial muscles with a rigid, magnetic exoskeleton to create building blocks for fast-moving reconfigurable robots. Ellen Rumley Zachary Yoder Ingemar Schmidt Philipp Rothemund Christoph Keplinger
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Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 13-09-2024 VMV 2024 Best Paper Honorable Mention VMV 2024 Best Paper Honorable Mention for the work Controllable Action-aware Manifold for 3D Motion Synthesis, a collaboration with the group of Christian Theobalt (MPI-I). Balamurugan Thambiraja Christian Theobalt
News 09-09-2024 Artificial muscles propel a robotic leg to walk and jump Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a robotic leg with artificial muscles. Inspired by living creatures, it jumps across different terrains in an agile and energy-efficient manner. The CLS team was led by Robert Katzschmann, Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich and Christoph Keplinger at MPI-IS. Their doctoral students Thomas Buchner and Toshihiko Fukushima are the co-first authors of the team’s publication team has now reported on an their animal-inspired musculoskeletal robotic leg in Nature Communications. (Image: Thomas Buchner / ETH Zurich und Toshihiko Fukushima / Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme).
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Physics for Inference and Optimization Appointment 01-09-2024 Caterina De Bacco
Physics for Inference and Optimization Award 31-08-2024 Caterina De Bacco receives the Physical Review E Reviewer Excellence Award 2024 thanks to the work she has done while at MPI-IS, reviewing for the Physical Review E journal.  
Robotic Materials Appointment 21-08-2024 Adrian Koh is appointed Associated Editor for RoboSoft 2025 Adrian Koh
Robust Machine Learning Award 01-08-2024 Emmy Noether Extension
Autonomous Learning Appointment 01-08-2024 Huanbo Sun becomes Assistant Professor in Peking University Test Abstract
News 17-07-2024 Learning from the Nobel Laureates in Lindau Early this July, two members of the MPI-IS community were invited to the 73rd Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting held in Lindau. Andrew Schulz, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and postdoctoral researcher in the Haptic Intelligence Department, and Zhijing Jin, a Ph.D. student in the Empirical Inference Department, had the time of their life meeting many inspiring nobel laureates. Zhijing Jin Andrew Schulz
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Haptic Intelligence Award 15-07-2024 Rachael Bevill Burns receives an honorable mention for the MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize Rachael Burns
Physical Intelligence Appointment 15-07-2024 Rongjing Zhang becomes Associate Professor at the Beihang University, China Rongjing Zhang
Empirical Inference News 15-07-2024 Siyuan Guo wins 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize Rachael Bevill Burns, Marilyn Keller and Cansu Sancaktar receive honorable mentions Siyuan Guo Marilyn Keller Rachael Burns Cansu Sancaktar Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Bernhard Schölkopf Leila Masri Florian Hartmann Alona Shagan
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Empirical Inference Appointment 15-07-2024 Zhijing Jin will become Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto
Perceiving Systems Award 11-07-2024 Aamir Ahmad is one of the 2024 KI Champions Baden-Württemberg for the project "WildCap: Intelligente Flugroboter für den Wildtierschutz", funded by Cyber Valley.
Perceiving Systems Award 05-07-2024 Marilyn Keller wins Honorable Mention for the 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize.
Empirical Inference Award 05-07-2024 Siyuan Guo: 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize
Perceiving Systems Award 04-07-2024 Yao Feng was selected as WiGRAPH Rising Stars in Computer Graphics. 
Organizational Leadership and Diversity 02-07-2024 KIT Speaker Series "Decisions & Design"
Algorithms and Society 02-07-2024 Keynote talk
Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 01-07-2024 Justus Thies receives the DAGM German Pattern Recognition Award 2024.
Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 01-07-2024 Justus Thies receives the EuroGraphics Young Researcher Award 2024.
Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 01-07-2024 The ERC Starting Grant Learning Digital Humans in Motion (LeMo) got accepted and will define the future research direction of the group.
Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-07-2024 Aarushi Bhargava becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Aarushi Bhargava
Learning and Dynamical Systems Award 01-07-2024 Amazon PhD Fellowship Amazon PhD Fellowship Michael Muehlebach
Perceiving Systems Award 01-07-2024 Eric Price and Aamir Ahmad, won Best Paper for "Airship Formations for Animal Motion Capture and Behaviour Analysis" at the 2nd International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems  (DELTAs) conference at IIT Bombay, India. 
Perceiving Systems Award 01-07-2024 Eric Price, Michael Black, and Aamir Ahmad receive the Uni Stuttgart Best Faculty Paper award for the paper "Viewpoint Driven Formation Control of Airships for Cooperative Target Tracking," in IEEE RA-L.
News 27-06-2024 Prof. Achim Menges appointed Max Planck Fellow at MPI-IS The world-renowned architect will set up a new research group on Intelligent Construction and Building Systems starting July 1, 2024 Christoph Keplinger Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
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Organizational Leadership and Diversity 24-06-2024 First conference presentation Vindhya Singh Vindhya Singh
News 21-06-2024 World's first ELLIS Institute opens The new ELLIS Institute stands for the convergence of European AI research and will attract bright minds from all over the world. Bernhard Schölkopf
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News 19-06-2024 MPI-IS joins forces to create the Robotics Institute Germany The Robotics Institute Germany (RIG), jointly announced by Germany’s leading robotics centers on June 18 at the "AI-based Robotics 2024" conference in Berlin, is to become the central hub for robotics in Germany. Prof Angela Schoellig from the consortium leader, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and RIG spokesperson Prof Tamim Asfour from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) presented the RIG concept for AI-based robotics. The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart and Tübingen is one of the main partners of the consortium, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the next four years, starting on July 1, 2024. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Christoph Keplinger Wieland Brendel Michael Muehlebach Dieter Büchler Florian Hartmann
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Haptic Intelligence Award 17-06-2024 Postdoc Mayumi Mohan receives the prize for best presentation at the ELLIS Unit Stuttgart Summer Symposium for her talk "Crafting Motion: From Robotic to Expressive" Mayumi Mohan
Robotic Materials Appointment 13-06-2024 Daniela Macari was elected president of the EuroEAP Society's Outreach and Dissemination Committee Daniela Macari
Robotic Materials Award 13-06-2024 Ellen Rumley and Zachary Yoder win 1st place of the 2024 EuroEAP Society Challenge. Ellen Rumley Zachary Yoder Johannes Walter Alona Shagan
Robotic Materials News 04-06-2024 EuroEAP 2024 comes to Stuttgart! Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems hosts international conference The International Conference on Soft Transducers and Electromechanically Active Polymers, EuroEAP 2024, organized by the EuroEAP Society, will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart from June 11 to 13, 2024, and will be accompanied by a EuroEAP Society Challenge. Philipp Rothemund Christoph Keplinger
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Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Award 01-06-2024 Our research won the Best Poster Award in ICRA2024 Workshop
Haptic Intelligence Award 27-05-2024 Doctoral student Nataliya Rokhmanova is selected by the Max Planck Society to be a nominee for 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows program Nataliya Rokhmanova
Haptic Intelligence Award 27-05-2024 Postdoc Mayumi Mohan and her team win the competition at MPG Career Evolution Games Week Mayumi Mohan
Organizational Leadership and Diversity 23-05-2024 ERC Starting grant interview Ksenia Keplinger
Haptic Intelligence Award 17-05-2024 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker debates on the Future of Robotics Research at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Haptic Intelligence News 17-05-2024 Katherine Kuchenbecker debates about the peer-review process at ICRA 2024 At this year’s five-day event in Yokohama, Kuchenbecker and other leading scientists from the robotics community argued the pros and cons of three controversial topics: single-blind peer review, generative AI, and the relevance of universities for modern robotics. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
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Embodied Vision Award 16-05-2024 Jörg Stückler is recognized as an Outstanding Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Jörg Stückler
Empirical Inference Award 16-05-2024 Julius von Kügelgen won the Cambridge PhD Prize in Quantitative Research (administered by G-Research) Julius von Kügelgen
Haptic Intelligence Appointment 10-05-2024 Hyosang Lee becomes Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology Hyosang Lee
Social Foundations of Computation News 07-05-2024 André Cruz, Moritz Hardt: ICLR 2024 Oral with the paper "Unprocessing Seven Years of Algorithmic Fairness"
Physical Intelligence Award 01-05-2024 Ali Amini Harandi received the NSREC postdoctoral fellowship from Canada. Ali Amini Harandi
News 25-04-2024 Diamond dust shines bright in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Potential alternative to widely used contrast agent gadolinium An unexpected discovery surprised a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart: nanometer-sized diamond particles, which were intended for a completely different purpose, shone brightly in a magnetic resonance imaging experiment – much brighter than the actual contrast agent, the heavy metal gadolinium. Could diamond dust – in addition to its use in drug delivery to treat tumor cells – one day become a novel contrast agent used for MRI? The research team now published their discovery in Advanced Materials. Jelena Zinnanti Eberhard Goering Anna-Maria Wild Peter Schützendübe Anitha Shiva Metin Sitti
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Empirical Inference Award 24-04-2024 Niki Kilbertus receives Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientists Niki Kilbertus
Physical Intelligence News 11-04-2024 Cyber Valley grants 500K to CELL’n’ROLL via 2023 Innovation Fellowship Program Cyber Valley Community is advancing diagnostics for the future CELL’n’ROLL aims to develop next-generation diagnostic solutions for detecting complex diseases such as cancer. Alp Can Karacakol Erdost Yildiz Ugur Bozuyuk
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Haptic Intelligence Award 10-04-2024 Behnam Khojasteh, Yitian Shao, and KJK win best IEEE Transactions on Haptics short paper at the IEEE Haptics Symposium Behnam Khojasteh Yitian Shao Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Physical Intelligence Award 01-04-2024 CELLnROLL team has been awarded the CyberValley Innovation Fellowship. Erdost Yildiz Alp Can Karacakol Ugur Bozuyuk