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Active Perception, Manipulation, and Personalized Navigation for Advanced Service Robots
Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo, Florian Dorner, Moritz Hardt: ICLR 2025 Oral with the paper "Training on the Test Task Confounds Evaluation and Emergence"
Florian Dorner, Vivian Nastl, Moritz Hardt: ICLR 2025 oral with the paper "Limits to Scalable Evaluation at the Frontier: LLM as Judge Won’t Beat Twice the Data"
Girls' Day
Predictive vs causal targeting of social interventions
Comparing Puncture-Detection Approaches for Manual Needle Insertions Through the Parietal Pleura
Dexterity and Haptics at the Manipulation and Touch Lab
Optimization of Scoring Rules
RIG hosts first German Robotics Conference
Magnetic microalgae on a mission to become robots
RIG internships high in demand at MPI-IS in Stuttgart
Artificial Muscles for Tremor Suppression
Neural network deciphers gravitational waves from merging neutron stars in a second
CameraHMR: Aligning People with Perspective
My Robot, My Motion: Expressive Real-Time Teleoperation
2025 Scientific Symposium
From research to startup: Polybot receives order for AI-based harvesting robotics
A miniature swimming robot inspired by marine flatworms
Highly agile flat swimming robot
Counterfactual Token Generation in Large Language Models
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the InsightApp: A Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial on Anxiety, Valued Action, and Psychological Resilience
Capturing and Recognizing Multimodal Surface Interactions as Embedded High-Dimensional Distributions
Geometric Inductive Biases of Deep Networks: The Role of Data and Architecture
Electrohydraulic Wearable Devices Create Unprecedented Haptic Sensations
Distributed Event-Based Learning via ADMM
Limits to Scalable Evaluation at the Frontier: LLM as Judge Won’t Beat Twice the Data
Flow Matching for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets: Where Reliability meets Adaptive Noise Levels
Adversarial Training for Defense Against Label Poisoning Attacks
Conformal Generative Modeling with Improved Sample Efficiency through Sequential Greedy Filtering
Wearable Electrohydraulic Actuation for Salient Full-Fingertip Haptic Feedback
Identifiable Exchangeable Mechanisms for Causal Structure and Representation Learning
In Search of Forgotten Domain Generalization
Interaction Asymmetry: A General Principle for Learning Composable Abstractions
Training on the Test Task Confounds Evaluation and Emergence
Democratizing 3D Human Digitization
Precision Haptics in Gait Retraining for Knee Osteoarthritis
Efficiently Dispatching Flash Attention For Partially Filled Attention Masks
Diversity and inclusion accelerate the pace of innovation in robotics
Vivian Nastl, Moritz Hardt: Spotlight Poster at NeurIPS 2024 for the paper "Do Causal Predictors Generalize Better to New Domains"
Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo, Moritz Hardt, Celestine Mendler- Dünner: NeurIPS 2024 oral with the paper "Questioning the Survey Responses of Large Language Models"
Next-Generation Biohybrids: Engineering Miniature Machines Inspired by Plant Systems
Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Pleasant Broad-Bandwidth Haptic Cues
Cooperate or Collapse: Emergence of Sustainability in a Society of LLM Agents
Do Finetti: On Causal Effects for Exchangeable Data
From Causal to Concept-Based Representation Learning
Causally Testing Gender Bias in LLMs: A Case Study on Occupational Bias
Simulation Training with Haptic Feedback of Instrument Vibrations Reduces Resident Workload During Live Robot-Assisted Sleeve Gastrectomy
Shaving Weights with Occam’s Razor: Bayesian Sparsification for Neural Networks using the Marginal Likelihood
PuzzleAvatar: Assembling 3D Avatars from Personal Albums