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Physical Intelligence News 07-07-2021 Roboter minimalinvasiv Attached is the article in c’t magazine
Physical Intelligence News 06-07-2021 Kirigami Metastructures: Liquid-Crystal-Elastomer-Actuated Reconfigurable Microscale Kirigami Metastructures (Adv. Mater. 25/2021) Achieving wireless miniaturized reconfigurable metastructures remains a challenge due to the difficult nature of the fabrication and actuation processes at the micrometer scale. In article number <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15214095/2021/33/25">2008605 </a>, Metin Sitti and co-workers develop an actuation platform for thermally reconfiguring micro-metasurfaces by using uniaxially aligned liquid crystal elastomers, which serve as efficient artificial muscles to provide energy for actuation of the microscale kirigami metastructures. Mingchao Zhang Hamed Shahsavan Yubing Guo Abdon Pena-Francesch Metin Sitti
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Empirical Inference Award 01-07-2021 Gary Becigneul: Dieter-Rampacher-Prize 2020
Rationality Enhancement News 01-07-2021 The Life Improvement Science 2021 inaugural conference concluded successfully on 13 June, 2021! Life Improvement Science (LIS) is an emerging transdisciplinary research field that investigates how we can help people do more good in better ways (well-doing). The ultimate goal of the conference was to promote the long-term well-doing of humanity. The conference featured invited talks on the most promising scientific approaches from motivation science, moral psychology, positive psychology, cognitive science, effective altruism, digital interventions, character education, social and personality psychology, coaching, wisdom scholarship, economics, sociology, and other relevant areas from some of the key researchers in these fields. We had more than 600 registered participants and we successfully gathered 100+ researchers to join the community after the conference and they will collaborate on the topic LIS in the future.
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Autonomous Vision Perceiving Systems News 26-06-2021 Bessere Entscheidungen, mehr Kontrolle: „Best Paper Award“ für Tübinger Forscher Zwei Cyber Valley Forschende ausgezeichnet für beste wissenschaftliche Arbeit bei weltweit renommierter Konferenz Großer Erfolg für zwei KI-Wissenschaftler aus dem Cyber Valley Ökosystem: Michael Niemeyer, Doktorand am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, und Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger von der Universität Tübingen wurden für ihre Arbeit „GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields“ bei der diesjährigen Conference on Computer Vision und Pattern Recognition (CVPR) mit dem „Best Paper Award“ geehrt. Andreas Geiger Michael Niemeyer
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 25-06-2021 Jan-Philipp Günther has won the the German Bunsen Society 2021 Agnes Pockels Ph.D. Award.
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 25-06-2021 Jan-Philipp Günther gewinnt den Agnes-Pockels-Promotionspreis Jan-Philipp Günther hat den Agnes-Pockels-Promotionspreis 2021 gewonnen, der jährlich von der Deutschen Bunsen-Gesellschaft für eine herausragende Doktorarbeit auf dem Gebiet der physikalischen Chemie vergeben wird. Jan-Philipp Günther Peer Fischer
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Empirical Inference News 24-06-2021 Gary Bécigneul awarded the Max Planck Society’s “Youngest Ph.D.” award Gary Bécigneul completed his doctoral studies at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems in July 2020, and has since continued to build the start-up he founded after completing his doctoral studies. Gary Becigneul Bernhard Schölkopf Sarah Danes Valerie Callaghan
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Rationality Enhancement News 24-06-2021 ICCM accepts paper on measuring and modelling how people learn how to plan! Great work Ruiqi, Yash, and Falk! Ruiqi He Yash Raj Jain Falk Lieder
Physical Intelligence News 21-06-2021 Savas Tasoglu receives Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers A new guest scientist joined the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for twelve months to continue his microfluidics and biomaterials research in Germany. Savas Tasoglu Metin Sitti
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Perceiving Systems Award 21-06-2021 Best Paper Candidate, IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021, for the paper "SCANimate: Weakly Supervised Learning of Skinned Clothed Avatar Networks" by Saito, S., Yang, J., Ma, Q., and Black, M. J.
Perceiving Systems Award 21-06-2021 Best Paper Candidate, IEEE/CVF Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021, for the paper "On Self-Contact and Human Pose" by Lea Müller, Ahmed Osman, Siyu Tang, Chun-Hao Paul Huang, and Michael Black.
Haptic Intelligence Award 18-06-2021 Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins Honorable Mention for Best Research Lightning Talk at the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Rachael Burns
Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 17-06-2021 Robotic fish learns to match its swimming speed to the current Fish have a sensory system known as the lateral line, which allows them to detect movements, vibrations and pressure gradients in the water. Scientists have now given a robotic fish its own version of that system, letting it determine the best swimming speed. Ardian Jusufi
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Robotic Materials News 16-06-2021 Elektrohydraulischer Arachno-Bot ein faszinierendes Leichtgewicht Von Spinnen inspirierte schnelle und effiziente Gelenke steuern eine Vielzahl an Robotern Ein Team von Wissenschaftlern des Max-Planck-Instituts für Intelligente Systeme und der University of Colorado Boulder entwickelt Gelenke, denen Spinnenbeine Modell standen, und bauen daraus leichte und filigrane Roboter. Christoph Keplinger Philipp Rothemund
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Learning and Dynamical Systems News 14-06-2021 PhD openings in Learning and Dynamical Systems Open PhD positions at the Learning and Dynamical Systems group.
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News 01-06-2021 Michael J. Black zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt Als Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme in Tübingen ist Black einer der weltweit führenden Wissenschaftler im Bereich Computer Vision Die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina hat am Freitag bekanntgegeben, dass sie Michael J. Black, Gründungsdirektor am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme in Tübingen, Honorarprofessor an der Universität Tübingen und Cyber Valley Sprecher, zum Mitglied gewählt hat. Michael Black Valerie Callaghan
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Empirical Inference Appointment 01-06-2021 Mijung Park becomes Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada
Physical Intelligence News 01-06-2021 Wei Feng receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his soft robotic research in Germany. Wei Feng Metin Sitti
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Rationality Enhancement News 25-05-2021 Transfer of the season! Julian starts his Ph.D. at the USCD! Julian Skirzynski
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Perceiving Systems Award 19-05-2021 Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya, Nikos Athanasiou, Michael Black, Timo Bolkart, Arjun Chandrasekaran, Vassilis Choutas, Partha Ghosh, Nikos Kolotouros, Dimitrios Tzionas, are recognized as CVPR 2021 Outstanding Reviewers.
Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 14-05-2021 Justus Thies is elected as EG Junior Fellow
Neural Capture and Synthesis Blog Post 1 minute read 14-05-2021 Justus Thies elected as EG Junior Fellow The Eurographics Junior Fellows have elected Justus Thies to join the EG Junior Fellows. Justus Thies
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Learning and Dynamical Systems Award 10-05-2021 Extension of Branco Weiss Fellowship Extension of Branco Weiss Fellowship Michael Muehlebach
Learning and Dynamical Systems News 10-05-2021 Extension of Branco Weiss Fellowship for Michael Mühlebach Fellowship is extended until the end of 2023. The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a community of exceptional young scientists who share a passion for taking research beyond the mainstream. Michael Muehlebach
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Dynamic Locomotion News 06-05-2021 Oezge Drama Ph.D. defense Oezge defends her Ph.D. Ph.D. defense. Oezge Drama
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Autonomous Learning News 05-05-2021 Maschinelles Lernen der Dynamik von Quantensystemen Forschende an der Universität Tübingen und am MPI-IS haben Methoden des maschinellen Lernens angewendet, um die Quantendynamik in physikalischen Modellen zu verstehen, die von aktuellen Experimenten inspiriert sind. Georg Martius Dominik Zietlow
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 01-05-2021 Vincent Kadiri has won Best Oral Award for his talk at the 2021 MRS Spring meeting.
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 01-05-2021 Best Oral Presentation Congratulations - Vincent Kadiri has won Best Oral Award for his talk entitled “Materials for Magnetically Actuated Micro- and Nanorobots” which he gave at the 2021 MRS Spring meeting. His presentation has been selected by the meeting chairs. Vincent Mauricio Kadiri
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Robust Machine Learning Award 01-05-2021 Emmy Noether Fellowship Wieland Brendel receives an Emmy Noether Fellowship
Rationality Enhancement News 30-04-2021 Nisha Tyagi joined our lab! Welcome, Nisha! Nisha Tyagi
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Physical Intelligence News 29-04-2021 Baukastensystem für die ausgeklügeltsten Roboter Spielwiese neuer Möglichkeiten beim Bau weicher Miniaturmaschinen Ein Team von Forschenden des Max-Planck-Instituts für Intelligente Systeme (MPI-IS) hat ein System entwickelt, mit dem sie passgenau Baustein für Baustein Miniaturroboter herstellen können. Jiachen Zhang Ziyu Ren Wenqi Hu Ren Hao Soon Immihan Ceren Yasa Zemin Liu Metin Sitti
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 22-04-2021 Eunjin Choi wins in "Science as Art" at the 2021 MRS Spring Meeting The depicted Art piece by Eunjin Choi is called "Snowman-village" and is based on an SEM image adapted from research published in ACS Nano “Arrays of plasmonic nanoparticle dimers with defined nanogap spacers”. It won 2nd place at this year's 2021 MRS Spring Meeting. More information can be found following the link provided by the MRS. Congratulations, Eunjin! EunJin Choi
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Physical Intelligence News 19-04-2021 MPI-IS beteiligt sich an Max Planck – University of Toronto Centre for Neural Science and Technology Metin Sitti forscht mit Neurochirurgen an Miniaturrobotern Bessere Therapien von Erkrankungen wie Demenz oder Parkinson, aber auch leistungsfähigere Computer und neue Verfahren der künstlichen Intelligenz – das sind die Ziele, die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler am Max Planck-University of Toronto-Centre for Neural Science and Technolgy verfolgen werden. Das Center wurde am 14. April 2021 in einer virtuellen Veranstaltung mit vielen prominenten Gästen eröffnet. Auch Metin Sitti, Direktor der Abteilung für Physische Intelligenz am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, war dabei. Metin Sitti
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Haptic Intelligence Award 07-04-2021 Ph.D. students Alexis E. Block, Rachael Bevill Burns, and Mayumi Mohan are selected to participate in the Gordon Research Seminar on the Future of Robotics: Possibilities for Transforming Healthcare Alexis Block Rachael Burns Mayumi Mohan
Haptic Intelligence News 06-04-2021 Challenging the design of electrovibrations to generate a more realistic feel A user should feel realistic haptic feedback on a touchscreen embedded with electrovibration technology – independent of the number of fingers used, the movements made, or the pressure applied to the screen. Unfortunately, not even the most advanced touchscreen devices provide a realistic user experience – all images feel like glass. In the near future, a completely rethought design of the electrical signals causing the haptic sensation could close the gap between reality and fiction. In an experiment, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Delft University of Technology laid the foundation for rethinking the design approach, generating more compelling tactile sensations on touchscreens, and improving the usability of mobile devices. Yasemin Vardar Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
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Perceiving Systems Award 31-03-2021 Michael Black is elected to the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina.
Neural Capture and Synthesis News 29-03-2021 Die virtuelle Welt noch realistischer darstellen Neue Forschungsgruppe am MPI-IS für die KI-basierte Erfassung und Synthese von Menschen, Objekten und Räumen Die reale Welt einfangen, synthetisieren und Menschen, Objekte und Räume so realistisch modellieren, dass ein Betrachter den Unterschied nicht mehr wahrnimmt – Justus Thies hat sich für die kommenden fünf Jahre ehrgeizige Ziele gesetzt. Mit seiner Forschung hat er bereits einen wesentlichen Beitrag dazu geleistet, Videoinhalte fotorealistisch darzustellen. Das bringt eine große Verantwortung mit sich. Die Reinszenierung von Gesichtern prominenter Personen zum Beispiel sieht täuschend echt aus; damit wird es für Laien immer schwieriger zu erkennen, ob die Person einen Satz auch wirklich gesagt hat. Mit dem Wissen über den Entstehungsprozess manipulierter Medieninhalte – sogenannter Deep Fakes – will Thies einen Schwerpunkt auf die Entwicklung von Algorithmen legen, die gefälschte Videoinhalte automatisch erkennen und kennzeichnen.
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Learning and Dynamical Systems News 26-03-2021 „Wir möchten komplexe dynamische Systeme besser in die Lage versetzen, sich an veränderte Bedingungen anzupassen“ Michael Mühlebach ist seit kurzem Leiter der Forschungsgruppe „Learning and Dynamical Systems“ am MPI-IS Mühlebachs Forschung wird durch die renommierten Branco Weiss und Emmy Noether Fellowships unterstützt Michael Muehlebach Valerie Callaghan
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Rationality Enhancement News 18-03-2021 Nishad Singhi joined our lab! Welcome, Nishad! Nishad Singhi
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Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 18-03-2021 Underwater swimming robot responds with feedback from soft lateral line A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany, from Seoul National University in Korea and from Harvard University in the US, successfully developed a predictive model and closed-loop controller of a soft robotic fish, designed to actively adjust its undulation amplitude to changing flow conditions and other external disturbances. Ardian Jusufi Yu-Hsiang Lin Hritwick Banerjee Toshihiko Fukushima Fabian Schwab Robert Siddall
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Rationality Enhancement News 16-03-2021 Congratulations to Gabriela Iwama and Falk Lieder on publishing! "Toward a formal theory of proactivity" is now online! Gabriela Iwama Falk Lieder
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Physical Intelligence News 16-03-2021 Metin Sitti and his team finalists for the 2020 Cozzarelli Prize The highly prestigious annual Cozzarelli Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the scientific disciplines represented by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Winners and finalists are chosen among articles that appeared in the journal last year in the six broadly defined classes under which the NAS is organized. Additionally, the Editorial Board has recognized six papers – one in each class – as finalists for the 2020 Cozzarelli Prize. Metin Sitti Hamed Shahsavan Amirreza Aghakhani Yubing Guo Zoey Davidson
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Dynamic Locomotion News 15-03-2021 Bernadett Kiss joins DLG New group member Bernadett Kiss becomes new Dynamic Locomotion Group member. Bernadett Kiss
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Empirical Inference News 12-03-2021 Teilnehmende für COVID-19 Studie gesucht Künstliche Intelligenz soll Früherkennung eines schweren Krankheitsverlaufs ermöglichen Bernhard Schölkopf Annika Buchholz Stefan Bauer
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Haptic Intelligence Award 11-03-2021 Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins first place at the HRI 2021 Student Elevator Pitch Competition Rachael Burns
Physical Intelligence News 08-03-2021 Jaekang Kim receives Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship The scientist working in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart will be supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for two years to continue his bio-inspired adhesive research in Germany Jaekang Kim Metin Sitti
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Rationality Enhancement News 08-03-2021 Our article on computational models of goal pursuit received positive reviews "Resource-Rational Models of Human Goal Pursuit" Benjamin Prystawski Florian Mohnert Mateo Tosic Falk Lieder
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Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-03-2021 Donghoon Son was appointed Assistant Professor at the Pusan National University
Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-03-2021 Sungwoo Chun will become Assistant Professor at Korea University