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Symposium 02-03-2026 ELLIS Institute Tübingen Scientific Symposium 2026 All current employees of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, MPI-IS, and the Tübingen AI Center are welcome to attend. For any questions, please contact carmela.rianna@tue.ellis.eu.

Haptic Intelligence PhD Thesis Defense 26-02-2026 Modeling, Fabricating, and Evaluating Synergistic Soft‑Rigid Actuators Soft actuators offer lightweight, compliant, and safe alternatives to traditional mechanisms, but they often incur complicated actuation schemes, bulky support systems, and limited functionality when made solely from soft materials. Soft‑rigid designs that integrate rigid elements into primarily soft bodies are common, yet the potential of those rigid parts to shape actuation behavior without compromising the overall softness remains underexplored, and fabrication practices often lack reproducibility. In this talk, I will present two case studies of synergistic hybrid actuation systems ... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Ifat Gertler

Symposium 24-02-2026 2026 Scientific Symposium All current and former employees and partners of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems are welcome to attend this event. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Christoph Keplinger Eva Lämmerhirt

Organizational Leadership and Diversity Talk Elisabeth Kelan, Ph.D. 23-02-2026 Gender and the Future of Work in the Age of AI The MPI-IS community is invited to a talk by Professor Elisabeth Kelan, at the institute's Stuttgart site on February 23 at 11:00. The talk will be followed by a discussion moderated by the Athena Group representatives at 12:30. Ksenia Keplinger Andrew K. Schulz Naomi Tashiro Alona Shagan

Perceiving Systems Talk Nicolas Ugrinovic Kehdy 17-02-2026 SAM3D Body SAM 3D Body (3DB) is a promptable model for single-image full-body 3D human mesh recovery (HMR) that demonstrates state-of-the-art performance, with strong generalization and consistent accuracy in diverse in-the-wild conditions. 3DB estimates the human pose of the body, feet, and hands. It is the first model to use a new parametric mesh representation, Momentum Human Rig (MHR), which decouples skeletal structure and surface shape. 3DB employs an encoder–decoder architecture and supports auxiliary prompts, including 2D keypoints and masks, enabling userguided inference similar to the SAM fa... Hanz Cuevas Velasquez

Perceiving Systems Talk Zijian Dong 12-02-2026 Beyond the Scan: High-fidelity Human Digitalization at Scale As the digital world evolves into an immersive extension of our daily lives, the digital avatar has emerged as the critical interface between human reality and digital intelligence. However, current creation methods suffer from a persistent bottleneck: the "trade-off" between the realism of expensive industrial scanning rigs and the scalability of parametric models that often lack the texture and clothing detail necessary for true visual presence. This talk presents a principled 3D avatar framework designed to bridge this gap by enabling the automated creation of realistic, animatable di... Michael J. Black Shrisha Bharadwaj

Learning and Dynamical Systems Talk 11-02-2026 Keynote by Michael Muehlebach at 2026 IMPRS-IS Interview Symposium The MPI-IS community is invited to the February 11 keynote by Dr. Michael Muehlebach, the scientific highlight of the 2026 IMPRS-IS Interview Symposium, examining learning through the lens of dynamical systems and interaction. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Leila Masri Sara Sorce Pannapa Huayhongtong

AI Safety and Alignment Talk Mateo Rojas-Carulla 04-02-2026 Breaking Agent Backbones: Evaluating the Security of Backbone LLMs in AI Agents AI agents powered by large language models are being deployed at scale, but we lack a systematic understanding of how LLM choice affects agent security. Maksym Andriushchenko

Embodied Social Interaction Talk Philipp Müller 04-02-2026 Bridging Psychology and Multimodal AI for Human Behaviour Analysis ELLIS Unit Stuttgart Talk As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly integrated into our private and professional lives, enabling effective collaboration between humans and machines is more important than ever. For such collaboration to be valuable and intuitive, machines must develop a deeper understanding of human behaviour - how we communicate, express emotions, and direct our attention. In this talk, I will present my work on advancing the state of the art in human behaviour analysis, with an emphasis on the value of integrating perspectives from psychology with those offered by multimodal AI. This i...

Perceiving Systems Talk Prof. Dr. Pascal Fua 15-01-2026 Deep Shape Design We live in a world full of manufactured objects of ever-increasing complexity that require clever engineering to be functional. Today, individual parts that composite objects are made of are optimized separately, control is not fully accounted for at design time, and much manual tinkering is required. As a result, our machines are not as efficient as they could be. We aim to change this by developing end-to-end trainable pipelines that incorporate all these elements. In this talk I will present the approach to composite design and co-design for shape and control we are currently developing...

Organizational Leadership and Diversity Talk Dr. Ksenia Keplinger 14-01-2026 University of Stuttgart Lunch Talk "Fü(h)r divers!" Topic: Gender, diversity & inclusion, New at the University of Stuttgart Provider: uniqUS In this compact, approximately 45-minute lunch format, you will gain practical insights into diversity-sensitive leadership. We invite you to explore strategies that promote and shape diversity in your own work environment. As part of our Lunch Talk series, participants explore various diversity-conscious leadership styles and reflect on the role diversity plays in effective leadership. For this session, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Ksenia Keplinger, Independent Research Group Leader for Organizational Leadership & Diversity at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. She wi...

Event 18-12-2025 Tübingen AI Winter Poster Event 2025 Showcasing recent ML papers from Tübingen published in top-tier venues

Talk Andreas Geiger 11-12-2025 Special Talk: Towards Physical AI Physical AI is considered the next major frontier of AI. It refers to artificial intelligence embodied in physical systems that can sense, learn and act autonomously in the real world, bridging perception, cognition and action. In the first part of this talk, I will argue that spatial perception is relevant for Physical AI systems, but doesn’t necessarily emerge on its own. I will review some of our work that led to the revolution of coordinate-based 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis methods. In particular, I will show recent optimization-based and feed-forward methods for both... Moritz Hardt Eva Lämmerhirt Nisha Tyagi

Event 02-12-2025 Max Planck Innovation – From Research to Impact: Patents, Licensing, Start-ups & MAX!mize Sebastian Theiss Lanz Barbara Kettemann

Deep Models and Optimization Talk Nicolas Zucchet 28-11-2025 How does data shape learning in LLMs? A case study of factual recall and the surprising role of data diversity (by Nicolas Zucchet, ETH Zurich) Data drives LLM training, yet we have limited scientific understanding of how it shapes learning dynamics and thus the final model. This talk, based on two recent works [1 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21676> ][2 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17863> ] will examine these questions with a focus on factual recall. We will begin by analyzing how LLMs learn a synthetic factual recall task, that serves as a test bed for knowledge acquisition and where we can precisely control data distribution properties. Our experiments reveal that learning proceeds in distinct stages, and, surprisingly, that skewe... Antonio Orvieto

Social Foundations of Computation Talk Bilal Zafar 25-11-2025 On Counterfactual Reasoning Abilities of LLMs Benchmark results suggest that LLMs can match or even surpass human performance across a range of tasks. Do these impressive benchmark statistics reflect genuine understanding? In this talk, I will discuss some ongoing work that probes LLMs’ understanding through their ability to generate and evaluate counterfactual examples. We find that while LLMs are highly accurate on standard versions of benchmarks like GSM8K and FolkTexts, they often struggle to generate counterfactual versions of the inputs. Even when they do, their subsequent prediction often does not agree with their own counterfac... Moritz Hardt

Talk Jeannette Bohg 17-11-2025 Special Talk: From Scaling Data to Scaling Capability: Compositional, Multimodal, and Embodied Robot Learning Scaling robot learning has led to impressive progress, but also to an unsustainable dependence on large datasets collected mainly through robot teleoperation. Moving forward, we need approaches that scale capability rather than data. In this talk, I will present three complementary efforts in this direction. Masquerade exploits the abundance of human egocentric videos to scale robot policy learning from rich but unstructured demonstrations. DexForce couples visual and tactile modalities to enable dexterous, contact-rich manipulation. MobiPi generalizes manipulation policies to mobile robots... Moritz Hardt Eva Lämmerhirt Nisha Tyagi

AI Safety and Alignment Talk Eric Wong 14-11-2025 Lessons from the Impossibility of Safety What kind of results is impossible for safety research, and what pathways forward can we hope to achieve? First, we will discuss theoretical results on rule-following that demonstrate token-level jailbreaks as an architectural inevitability of attention (LogicBreaks). While initially pessimistic, these theoretical insights can also be leveraged to steer models to state of the art performance in five lines of code (InstABoost). Lastly, we will argue for a shift in safety strategy away from aligning model weights to stateful monitoring, as the only level at which one can hope to stop misuse (... Maksym Andriushchenko

Symposium 10-11-2025 Special Symposium on Intelligent Systems November 2025 On November 10th, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen will host a special symposium on the future directions in intelligent systems. Keynote lectures by leading international scientists will offer insights into groundbreaking research and emerging trends, giving attendees a forward-looking perspective on the global development of intelligent systems. Moritz Hardt Michael Black Bernhard Schölkopf Eva Lämmerhirt Nisha Tyagi

Haptic Intelligence PhD Thesis Defense 07-11-2025 An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Pose Estimation: Application to Sign Language Accessibility legislation mandates equal access to information for Deaf communities. While videos of human interpreters provide optimal accessibility, they are costly and impractical for frequently updated content. AI-driven signing avatars offer a promising alternative, but their development is limited by the lack of high-quality 3D motion-capture data at scale. Vision-based motion-capture methods are scalable but struggle with the rapid hand movements, self-occlusion, and self-touch that characterize sign language. To address these limitations, this dissertation develops two complementary... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Michael Black Maria-Paola Forte

Social Foundations of Computation Talk Elad Hazan 03-11-2025 Learning in Dynamical Systems Learning in dynamical systems is a fundamental challenge underlying modern sequence modeling. Despite extensive study, efficient algorithms with formal guarantees for general nonlinear systems have remained elusive. This talk presents a provably efficient framework for online learning in any bounded and Lipschitz nonlinear dynamical system, establishing the first sublinear regret guarantees in a dimension-free setting. Our approach combines Koopman lifting, Luenberger observers, and, crucially, spectral filtering to show that nonlinear dynamics are learnable. These insights motivate a new n... Moritz Hardt

Haptic Intelligence Talk Abdullah Muhammad 31-10-2025 What is so rapid about prototyping anyway? The declared objective of fabrication technology is to integrate into creative processes, i.e., sequences of design, prototyping, and testing activities, each of which commonly takes place on the minute to hour scale, often involving multiple people. Current fabrication technology, however, is too slow to be part of this process. People thus perform fabrication offline, the involved people spilt up, and the flow is broken. In this talk, I will challenge this traditional notion of rapid prototyping. Picking laser cutting as my weapon of choice, I will analyze the traditional fabrication p... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Perceiving Systems Talk Angela Yao 30-10-2025 Text, Touch and Trajectories: Reconstructing 3D Humans with 3T’s 3D human reconstruction requires more than just modeling geometry - it demands a nuanced understanding of semantics, contacts, and motions. This talk explores how we can rethink reconstruction through the lens of 3Ts: Text, Touch, and Trajectories, as three complementary signals to infer human and object structures in the wild. Text, or natural language, provides an intuitive prior for object shape and category and we use it as support for hand-object reconstruction. Touch, or contact, provide cues that link humans to the outside world. I will introduce our state-of-the-art approach on ... Nikos Athanasiou Melanie Feldhofer Nicole Overbaugh Michael J. Black

Robotic Materials Talk Dr. Peter Morshuis 29-10-2025 HVDC in Fast-Forward The focus of the first part of my presentation “HVDC in fast-forward” is on high voltage DC as an enabling technology for harvesting renewable energy. Ample attention will be given to the challenges and risks related to the fast roll-out of HVDC cable systems in Europe and in China. The need for developing on-line monitoring systems and non-intrusive sensors is discussed and research opportunities are highlighted. In the second part of my presentation I will provide a short overview of the expertise of the Institute of Electrical Insulation and Materials of Xi’an Jiaotong University, one ... Christoph Keplinger

AI Safety and Alignment Talk Alexander Meinke 13-10-2025 Stress Testing Deliberative Alignment for Anti-Scheming Training A core challenge in aligning powerful, goal-directed AI is the convergent incentive for an agent to preserve its own objectives against modification. A sufficiently capable model may therefore learn to 'scheme' by strategically appearing aligned when under oversight in order to avoid goal modification. In our latest work, we collaborated with OpenAI to study whether we can train models not to scheme by teaching o3 and o4-mini to avoid covert actions through deliberative alignment. The training reduces but doesn't eliminate covert behavior, and we show that some of the improvement comes from... Maksym Andriushchenko

Workshop 08-10-2025 Responsible Conduct in Research 2025 Remote via Zoom Principles of good scientific practice can be violated in many ways, from improper application of scientific methods or documenting data, to serious scientific misconduct through deliberate falsification or deceit. This workshop will provide an introduction to these important topics, with subject-specific input from senior IMPRS-IS and CLS researchers.

Perceiving Systems Talk Elin Hernlund 01-10-2025 Decoding animal health: Computer vision approaches to motion and emotional states in animals Animal body conformation plays an important role in health and athletic performance across species. The selective breeding process, introduced by humans in modern domestication, has shaped animal bodies to achieve visually appealing traits or functional specialisation. But these modifications can create predispositions to health issues that are challenging to detect. Assessment of body conformation, pose, and motion provides valuable insights into health parameters and forms a cornerstone of the veterinary clinical examination. However, traditional assessment methods face significant lim... Shashank Tripathi

Social Foundations of Computation Talk Moritz Hardt 25-09-2025 How benchmarking broke in the LLM era and what to salvage IMPRS-IS Keynote Lecture by Moritz Hardt Benchmarking is a process of continual improvement through competitive testing, central to engineering communities. Although benchmarking has long fueled progress in machine learning, there’s a growing crisis about recent generative models. In this talk, I'll discuss the causes of this crisis and how to achieve valid model comparisons—and, by extension, valid model rankings. Currently, different benchmarks yield contradictory comparisons, even when targeting the same task. Multi-task benchmarks exacerbate ranking disagreements, as do attempts to scale up evaluation. Toward diagnosing the pr...

Symposium 19-09-2025 2025 CaCTüS Scientific Symposium The symposium marks the conclusion of this year’s CaCTüS internship The CaCTüS interns will present the results of their research projects to the campus community, highlighting both their technical progress and the scientific soft skills they’ve developed over the summer. Following the presentations, we invite you to join us for a BBQ. Lea Nagel

Haptic Intelligence Talk Dr. Elizabeth Gregorio 18-09-2025 Snake Swimming Hydrodynamics, Biomechanics, and Maneuverability Snakes are anguilliform swimmers, they move through water by propagating a traveling wave of increasing amplitude along their body length. Their relatively simple body shape, swimming style, and high maneuverability has made them a popular model in robotics. Yet it is important to understand how snakes achieve swimming eﬃciency and maneuverability to successfully extend these qualities into robotics. As a snake swims its body pushes against the surrounding water, therefore, its undulation is the source of both its propulsion and drag force. We use digital defocusing particle tracking veloc... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Andrew Schulz

Perceiving Systems Talk Francesco Palandra 11-09-2025 Advancing Animal Shape and Pose Reconstruction from Video: Challenges and Optimization Strategies The reconstruction of animal shape and pose from video is a challenging problem in computer vision, with many approaches utilizing the SMAL as a prior. A promising refinement in this field involves applying Gaussian Splatting on top of those approaches to enhance the accuracy of these reconstructions. However, our observations show that directly applying Gaussian Splatting to each frame independently does not yield optimal results due to the limited precision of the backbone models. In this talk we will highlight the need for an additional optimization step, potentially using temporal const... Vanessa Sklyarova

Haptic Intelligence Talk Vincenzo Marco De Luca 28-08-2025 Tempo-Relational Neural Networks for Advancing Team Modeling in the Operating Room Poor teamwork is a leading contributor to medical errors in the operating room. While team modeling has been studied from multiple perspectives, the literature still lacks a comprehensive analysis of which neural architectures best align with principles from social science. To address this gap, we propose a tempo-relational neural network that jointly predicts multiple team constructs while ensuring explainability. Our framework provides both factual explanations-clarifying the underlying causes of errors-and counterfactual explanations-offering actionable feedback for improving teamwork in... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Talk Mary Kate Gale 28-08-2025 Training for Teleoperation of Surgical Robots: A Neuroscience Perspective For many routine surgical procedures, robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) has become the state of the art, providing surgeons with enhanced dexterity, precision, and control. However, the most effective methods for training surgeons to operate these systems remain unknown, and ineffective training can lead to errors with serious implications for patient safety. In this talk, I will present my research into optimizing training for surgical robotics, drawing on user studies involving the design, manipulation, and evaluation of multisensory performance feedback. I will also discus... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence IS Colloquium Prof. Malte F. Jung 11-08-2025 Machine-Mediated Teamwork As AI driven systems increasingly become integrated into team contexts, understanding how even subtle machine behaviors influence human interactions and relationships is critical. In this talk, I explore how simple machine actions—like allocation decisions by robots or language suggestions from generative AI—can profoundly affect interpersonal dynamics within teams. Drawing on empirical studies, I illustrate how machine behaviors impact perceptions of fairness, dominance, cooperation, and affiliation among team members. Findings from experiments involving robotic allocation tasks and AI... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Robotic Materials Talk Viktoriia Kamska 25-07-2025 Color dynamics: Novel structural color mechanisms may mediate camouflage strategies of blue sharks Numerous animals exhibit remarkable adaptations for dynamically altering skin coloration. For instance, chameleons modify guanine crystal spacing in their cells, flounders regulate skin pigment visibility, and cephalopods utilize complex light-diffusing structures to achieve effective camouflage. While shark skin is often perceived as grey, some species demonstrate diverse coloration and camouflage strategies, including countershading and bioluminescence. Recent reports suggest that great white sharks possess dynamic camouflage, as evidenced by the great white shark's skin color changes to ... Christoph Keplinger

Perceiving Systems Talk Rao Fu 24-07-2025 Capturing Dexterity: Large-Scale Demonstration Acquisition and Dynamic Contact Modeling for Bimanual Hand–Object Interaction Achieving dexterous manipulation in AI and robotics depends on learning from high-quality, generalizable demonstrations with detailed annotations. In this talk, I first present Gigahands, a massive and richly annotated dataset capturing diverse bimanual hand object interactions. Existing datasets often fall short in scale, diversity, and detail, limiting the effective training of generative models and policy learners. Gigahands offers the possibility of overcoming these limitations by providing a robust foundation of diverse demonstrations paired with comprehensive text annotations, which a...

Robotic Materials Talk Prof. Arjang Ruhparwar, MD 24-07-2025 Prospects of artificial muscles for cardiac support Medical soft robots represent a promising field in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, offering a potential for millions of patients suffering from heart failure worldwide. In this context, we present our work and review the current state and future direction of artificial muscle-based soft robotic biomedical devices that support the inotropic function of the heart, with a particular focus on emerging electrothermal and pnumatic powered artificial heart muscles. These artificial muscle-powered soft robotic devices are capable of mimicking the actions of complex biological systems, suc... Christoph Keplinger

Robotic Materials Talk Aurore Claverie 11-07-2025 The S3® WEC (Wave Energy Converter) Journey SBM will present the S3® WEC (Wave Energy Converter) journey an innovative concept developed by SBM for over ten years, which has captured the imagination and interest of many people. The S3® WEC aimed to harness the power of ocean waves using electro-active polymers - advanced materials capable of generating energy through mechanical deformation. Despite notable technical achievements, testing, and the development of deep expertise across multiple domains, SBM made the strategic decision to discontinue the project. Ultimately, the S3® WEC could not demonstrate a clear path to commercial ... Christoph Keplinger

Social Foundations of Computation Talk David Blei 30-06-2025 Hierarchical Causal Models Analyzing nested data with hierarchical models is a staple of Bayesian statistics, but causal modeling remains largely focused on “flat” models. In this talk, we will explore how to think about nested data in causal models, and we will consider the advantages of nested data over aggregate data (such as means) for causal inference. We show that disaggregating your data replacing a flat causal model with a hierarchical causal model can provide new opportunities for identification and estimation. As examples, we will study how to identify and estimate causal effects under unmeasured confounder... Moritz Hardt

Haptic Intelligence PhD Thesis Defense 30-06-2025 Towards Robust and Flexible Robot State and Motion Estimation through Optimization and Learning For autonomous agents to operate reliably in the real world, they must perceive their environment, estimate their own and the environment's state, and derive appropriate actions based on their beliefs and the given task. While extensive research has been conducted on robot state estimation and geometric mapping, many existing methods remain tailored to specific hardware configurations or problem setups, limiting their scalability and applicability to future, more diverse scenarios. This thesis explores new directions for state and motion estimation, mapping, and localization, rendering i... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Julian Nubert

Symposium 26-06-2025 - 27-06-2025 2025 Special Symposium on Intelligent Systems On June 26 and 27, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen will host a special symposium on the future directions in intelligent systems. Keynote lectures by leading international scientists will offer insights into groundbreaking research and emerging trends, giving attendees a forward-looking perspective on the global development of intelligent systems. Moritz Hardt Bernhard Schölkopf Michael Black Eva Lämmerhirt Nisha Tyagi

Haptic Intelligence IS Colloquium Mathieu Chollet 10-06-2025 Socially Aware Computing for Augmenting Virtual Social Interactions Human-computer interaction is increasingly concerned with the social. Social signal processing – a sub-field of artificial intelligence dealing with the recognition of social cues – enables computers to detect our social behaviour reliably; at the same time, new forms of remote social interaction, such as social virtual reality, attempt to reproduce genuine social interactions such as through tracking non-verbal behaviour and reproducing them on avatars. My research explores how these new computing paradigms dealing with social behaviour can augment, or create new forms of, virtual social i... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Organizational Leadership and Diversity Retreat 02-06-2025 Puzzle Box Study Poster Presented at 2025 MPI-IS Retreat in Schluchsee

Event 01-06-2025 - 30-09-2025 Puzzle Box Study Successfully Completed Data Collection

Haptic Intelligence Talk Dr. Chelsea Sidrane 30-05-2025 Neural Network Verification for Autonomous Systems Data-driven methods have proven very effective for control, planning and estimation onboard complex robotic systems. Unfortunately, the safety and reliability of the resulting system consequently becomes much more difficult to analyze. One answer to this problem is the small but growing body of work focused on formal verification of neural networks. However, many of the first works published in this area considered simple settings where the networks were analyzed in isolation. My PhD thesis, completed in 2022, and current research as a postdoctoral fellow focuses on developing methods to fo... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Robotic Materials Talk Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kremer 22-05-2025 Glassy dynamics, charge transport and electrode polarization in low molecular weight (ionic) liquids Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS) [1], as one of the major tools in molecular physics, benefits from several advantages; (i) based on one of Maxwell´s equations it measures both, charge transport of mobile charge carriers and relaxations of the polar moieties in a molecular system, (ii) it covers an extraordinary wide spectral range from typically 10-5Hz – 109Hz or higher, (iii) with modern equipment the experiments can be carried out at widely varying electrical field strength and temperatures and (iv) its sensitivity increases with decreasing thickness of a sample capacitor and he... Christoph Keplinger Adrian Koh

Haptic Intelligence IS Colloquium Prof. Dr. Jürgen Steimle 12-05-2025 Human-Computer Integration The integration of computing with the human body is unlocking exciting opportunities for intelligent systems that enhance human capabilities. This talk will explore approaches to human-computer integration at the physical, sensory, and behavioral levels. First, seamless physical integration with the body requires a new generation of soft sensing and acting devices with unique form factors and material properties. I will present results from my research on multi-modal electronic skin. Second, I will discuss technologies for rich sensory integration using physiological sensors and feel-throug... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence IS Colloquium Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz 05-05-2025 Active Perception, Manipulation, and Personalized Navigation for Advanced Service Robots Service robots acting in human environments must actively perceive their environment, act foresightedly, and adapt to individual user preferences. In this talk, I will first present methods to enable robots to efficiently perceive the environment and carefully manipulate objects in cluttered scenes. In particular, I will introduce an active mapping approach for confined spaces such as household shelves or horticultural crop rows, where significant occlusions pose challenges for service robots. In these scenarios, robots need to manipulate objects to reduce occlusions and improve visibility.... Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Outreach 03-04-2025 - 19-03-2025 Girls' Day Interessante Einblicke in Forschung und Technik Linda Behringer

Social Foundations of Computation Talk Bryan Wilder 03-04-2025 Predictive vs causal targeting of social interventions Machine learning is increasingly used to inform which people receive limited interventions in a wide range of domains, including healthcare, human services, education, development, and more. What is the right quantity for such models to predict? Moritz Hardt

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