DEPARTMENTS

Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


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Autonomous Vision

Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

Probabilistic Learning Group


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Robotic Materials Article Biodegradable Electrohydraulic Actuators for Sustainable Soft Robots Rumley, E. H., Preninger, D., Shagan-Shomron, A., Rothemund, P., Hartmann, F., Baumgartner, M., Kellaris, N., Stojanovic, A., Yoder, Z., Karrer, B., et al. Science Advances, 9(12), 2023, Ellen H. Rumley and David Preninger were co-first authors, and Christoph Keplinger and Martin Kaltenbrunner were shared corresponding authors. (Published) YouTube video DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired microstructured adhesives with facile and fast switchability for part manipulation in dry and wet conditions Pang, C., Kim, J., Wu, Y., Wang, M. Y., Yu, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(38):2303116, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired rotary flight of light-driven composite films Wang, D., Chen, Z., Li, M., Hou, Z., Zhan, C., Zheng, Q., Wang, D., Wang, X., Cheng, M., Hu, W., et al. Nature Communications, 14(1):5070, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired self-assembled colloidal collectives drifting in three dimensions underwater Sun, M., Yang, S., Jiang, J., Jiang, S., Sitti, M., Zhang, L. Science Advances, 9(45):eadj4201, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Biomolecular actuators for genetically selective acoustic manipulation of cells Wu, D., Baresch, D., Cook, C., Ma, Z., Duan, M., Malounda, D., Maresca, D., Abundo, M. P., Lee, J., Shivaei, S., et al. Science Advances, 9(8):eadd9186, AAAS, Washington, 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Miscellaneous Borges und die Künstliche Intelligenz Bottou, L., Schölkopf, B. 2023, published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 December 2023, Nr. 294 (Published) PDF BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Broad-Wavelength Light-Driven High-Speed Hybrid Crystal Actuators Actuated Inside Tissue-Like Phantoms Kim, D. W., Hagiwara, Y., Hasebe, S., Dogan, N. O., Zhang, M., Asahi, T., Koshima, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(47):2305916, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Polymeric Coatings for Colorful Artificial Muscles and Motile Humidity Sensor Skin Integrated with Magnetic Composites Feng, W., Pal, A., Wang, T., Ren, Z., Yan, Y., Lu, Y., Yang, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(23), 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Embodied Vision Conference Paper Context-Conditional Navigation with a Learning-Based Terrain- and Robot-Aware Dynamics Model Guttikonda, S., Achterhold, J., Li, H., Boedecker, J., Stueckler, J. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2023 (Published) preprint code DOI URL BibTeX

Neural Capture and Synthesis Conference Paper DINER: Depth-aware Image-based Neural Radiance Fields Prinzler, M., Hilliges, O., Thies, J. In IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), CVPR, 2023, Accepted (Accepted) Video Code Arxiv URL BibTeX

Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Data-Efficient Online Learning of Ball Placement in Robot Table Tennis Tobuschat, P., Ma, H., Büchler, D., Schölkopf, B., Muehlebach, M. EEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Deployable Soft Origami Modular Robotic Arm With Variable Stiffness Using Facet Buckling Park, M., Kim, W., Yu, S., Cho, J., Kang, W., Byun, J., Jeong, U., Cho, K. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(2):864-871, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Designing Covalent Organic Framework-based Light-driven Microswimmers towards Intraocular Theranostic Applications Sridhar, V., Yildiz, E., Rodrı́guez-Camargo, A., Lyu, X., Yao, L., Wrede, P., Aghakhani, A., Akolpoglu, M. B., Podjaski, F., Lotsch, B. V., et al. Advanced Materials, 35(25), 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Direct observation of Néel-type skyrmions and domain walls in a ferrimagnetic DyCo3 thin film Luo, C., Chen, K., Ukleev, V., Wintz, S., Weigand, M., Abrudan, R., Prokes, K., Radu, F. Communications Physics, 6:2018, Nature Publishing Group, London, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Direct observation of propagating spin waves in the 2D van der Waals ferromagnet Fe5GeTe2 Schulz, F., Litzius, K., Powalla, L., Birch, M. T., Gallardo, R. A., Satheesh, S., Weigand, M., Scholz, T., Lotsch, B. V., Schütz, G., et al. Nano Letters, 23(22):10126-10131, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article Discovering causal relations and equations from data Camps-Valls, G., Gerhardus, A., Ninad, U., Varando, G., Martius, G., Balaguer-Ballester, E., Vinuesa, R., Diaz, E., Zanna, L., Runge, J. Physics Reports, 1044:1-68, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Dry adhesives and methods for making dry adhesives M Sitti, M. M. B. A. 2023, US Patent 11,773,298, 2023 () BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Ferromagnetic order controlled by the magnetic interface of LaNiO3/ La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 superlattices Soltan, S., Macke, S., Ilse, S. E., Pennycook, T., Zhang, Z. L., Christiani, G., Benckiser, E., Schütz, G., Goering, E. Scientific Reports, 13:3847, Nature Publishing Group, London, UK, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Hydrogel muscles powering reconfigurable micro-metastructures with wide-spectrum programmability Zhang, M., Pal, A., Zheng, Z., Gardi, G., Yildiz, E., Sitti, M. Nature Materials, 22(10):1243-1252, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Imaging of short-wavelength spin waves in a nanometer-thick YIG/Co bilayer Talapatra, A., Qin, H., Schulz, F., Yao, L., Flajsman, L., Weigand, M., Wintz, S., van Dijken, S. Applied Physics Letters, 122(20):202404, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Information theoretic measures of causal influences during transient neural events Shao, K., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. Frontiers in Network Physiology, 3, 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Integrated mechanologics for autonomous soft machines Pal, A., Byun, J., Ko, J., Sitti, M. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2023 () BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article Interpretable Symbolic Regression for Data Science: Analysis of the 2022 Competition Franca, F. D., Virgolin, M., Kommenda, M., Majumder, M., Cranmer, M., Espada, G., Ingelse, L., Fonseca, A., Landajuela, M., Petersen, B., et al. arXiv, 2023 () URL BibTeX

Embodied Vision Conference Paper Learning-based Relational Object Matching Across Views Elich, C., Armeni, I., Oswald, M. R., Pollefeys, M., Stueckler, J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023 (Published) preprint code DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Liquid Metal Microdroplet-Initiated Ultra-Fast Polymerization of a Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogel Composite Zhang, J., Liao, J., Liu, Z., Zhang, R., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article MRI-powered Magnetic Miniature Capsule Robot with HIFU-controlled On-demand Drug Delivery Tiryaki, M. E., Dogangun, F., Dayan, C. B., Wrede, P., Sitti, M. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07197, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Machine Learning-Based Shear Optimal Adhesive Microstructures with Experimental Validation Dayan, C. B., Son, D., Aghakhani, A., Wu, Y., Demir, S. O., Sitti, M. Small, :2304437, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Magnetic Putty as A Reconfigurable, Recyclable, And Accessible Soft Robotic Material Li, M., Pal, A., Byun, J., Gardi, G., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, :2304825, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Magnetic field sensing elements made of quasi-trapezoidal magnetoplasmonic crystals based on thin permalloy films Murzin, D., Belyaev, V. K., Groß, F., Gräfe, J., Perov, N., Komanicky, V., Rodionova, V. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 588, NH, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Magnetic guidewire steering at ultrahigh magnetic fields Tiryaki, M. E., Elmacıoğlu, Y. G., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 9(17):eadg6438, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Magnetic phase transition in dimer-based metal-organic frameworks through structural modulation Kim, S., Schütz, G., Son, K., Oh, H. Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 38, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Magnetic trap system and method of navigating a microscopic device Son, D., Ugurlu, M., Bluemer, P., Sitti, M. 2023, US Patent App. 17/871,598 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Metrizing Weak Convergence with Maximum Mean Discrepancies Simon-Gabriel, C., Barp, A., Schölkopf, B., Mackey, L. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 24(184), 2023 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Micro-and nanofabrication of dynamic hydrogels with multichannel information Zhang, M., Lee, Y., Zheng, Z., Khan, M. T. A., Lyu, X., Byun, J., Giessen, H., Sitti, M. Nature Communications, 14(1):8208, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Mimicking Tumor Cell Heterogeneity of Colorectal Cancer in a Patient-derived Organoid-Fibroblast Model Atanasova, V. S., de Jesus Cardona, C., Hejret, V., Tiefenbacher, A., Mair, T., Tran, L., Pfneissl, J., Draganić, K., Binder, C., Kabiljo, J., et al. Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology, 15(6):1391-1419, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Article Muscle Preflex Response to Perturbations in locomotion: In-vitro experiments and simulations with realistic boundary conditions Araz, M., Weidner, S., Izzi, F., Badri-Spröwitz, A., Siebert, T., Haeufle, A. D. F. B. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 11, 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Nanoporous adsorbents for hydrogen storage Hirscher, M., Zhang, L., Oh, H. Applied Physics A, 129(2), Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Natural Language Processing for Policymaking Jin, Z., Mihalcea, R. In Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy, :141-162, 7, (Editors: Bertoni, E. and Fontana, M. and Gabrielli, L. and Signorelli, S. and Vespe, M.), Springer International Publishing, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Embodied Vision Ph.D. Thesis Object-Level Dynamic Scene Reconstruction With Physical Plausibility From RGB-D Images Strecke, M. F. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, 2023 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Learning and Dynamical Systems Conference Paper Orthogonal Directions Constrained Gradient Method: from Non-Linear Equality Constraints to Stiefel Manifold Schechtman, S., Tiapkin, D., Muehlebach, M., Moulines, E. Conference on Learning Theory, 2023 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Programmable mechanical devices through magnetically tunable bistable elements Pal, A., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(15):e2212489120, 2023 () DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Pump probe x-ray microscopy of photo-induced magnetization dynamics at MHz repetition rates Gerlinger, K., Pfau, B., Hennecke, M., Kern, L., Will, I., Noll, T., Weigand, M., Gräfe, J., Traeger, N., Schneider, M., et al. Structural Dynamics, 10(2):024301, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Quantifying the spin-wave asymmetry in single and double rectangular Ni80Fe20 microstrips by TR-STXM, FMR, and micromagnetic simulations Pile, S., Ney, A., Lenz, K., Narkowicz, R., Lindner, J., Wintz, S., Förster, J., Mayr, S., Weigand, M. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 59(11), Published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for the Magnetics Group, New York, NY, 2023 () DOI BibTeX