Institute News
Prof. Achim Menges appointed Max Planck Fellow at MPI-IS
- 27 June 2024
The world-renowned architect will set up a new research group on Intelligent Construction and Building Systems starting July 1, 2024
World's first ELLIS Institute opens
- 21 June 2024
The new ELLIS Institute stands for the convergence of European AI research and will attract bright minds from all over the world.
MPI-IS joins forces to create the Robotics Institute Germany
- 19 June 2024
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 Kuchenbecker Christoph Keplinger Wieland Brendel Michael Muehlebach Dieter Büchler Florian Hartmann Linda Behringer
EuroEAP 2024 comes to Stuttgart!
- 04 June 2024
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.
Katherine Kuchenbecker debates about the peer-review process at ICRA 2024
- 17 May 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.
Diamond dust shines bright in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- 25 April 2024
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 Peter Schützendübe Anitha Shiva Metin Sitti Linda Behringer
Cyber Valley grants 500K to CELL’n’ROLL via 2023 Innovation Fellowship Program
- 11 April 2024
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.
Zhijing Jin and Andrew Schulz selected to join the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
- 21 March 2024
The two researchers from the Empirical Inference and Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems are among 650 young scientists from across the world who are given the opportunity to participate in a week of scientific exchange with some of the world’s greatest minds.
Zhijing Jin Andrew Schulz Katherine Kuchenbecker Bernhard Schölkopf Linda Behringer
MAXMINDS impacts lives of students in Turkey and Syria
- 06 February 2024
On February 6, 2024, one year after the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, we remember with deep sorrow the lives lost and extend our condolences to their families and loved ones. In the past 12 months after the disaster, members of the Max Planck Society set up a mentorship initiative to support affected university students in their careers: MAXMINDS.
Zhijing Jin receives three Rising Star Awards
- 01 January 2024
Ph.D. student Zhijing Jin receives the EECS Rising Star, Rising Star in Data Science, and Rising Star in Machine Learning award. Her research focuses on socially responsible NLP by causal inference.
