News & Awards

Robotic Materials Appointment 15-06-2023 Philipp Rothemund is appointed as a tenure track professor at the University of Stuttgart. Philipp Rothemund

Social Foundations of Computation News 15-06-2023 Celestine Mendler-Dünner becomes fellow of Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg Celestine was recently selected as a new fellow of the Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck Society Celestine Mendler-Dünner

Perceiving Systems News 14-06-2023 Meshcapade raises $6M seed round The spin-off from Perceiving Systems Meshcapade is training foundation models for the analysis and generation of 3D humans Matrix leads seed round to expand Meshcapade's market-leading AI solutions that transform pictures, videos, text, and sensor data into 3D humans in the SMPL Standard body format. Meshcapade's technology and founding team spun out from the MPI for Intelligent Systems. Michael Black Naureen Mahmood Talha Zaman

Learning and Dynamical Systems News 13-06-2023 L4DC conference Two articles from our group will be presented at the Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference. Congratulations to Guanchun, Jan, Philip, and Hao for having their articles accepted at the Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference.

Learning and Dynamical Systems News 13-06-2023 UAI Conference Our article will be presented at the Conference for Uncertainty Quantification in Artificial Intelligence. Congratulations to Klaus and Julius!

Learning and Dynamical Systems News 12-06-2023 COLT conference Our article on stochastic gradient algorithms on manifolds has been accepted to the Conference on Learning Theory 2023. Congratulations to Sholom and Daniil!

Empirical Inference Award 10-06-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf received the 2022 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his groundbreaking research in the field of artificial intelligence.

Dynamic Locomotion Award 09-06-2023 Best Poster Presentation Award Human-like bipedal robot achieves fast walking gait with mono- and biarticular spring-tendon powered ankle push-off Bernadett Kiss Emre Cemal Gönen An Mo Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Dynamic Locomotion Award 09-06-2023 Best Robot Demo at AMAM 2023 Human-like bipedal robot achieves fast walking gait with mono- and biarticular spring-tendon powered ankle push-off Bernadett Kiss

Robotic Materials Award 08-06-2023 Hyeong-Joon Joo wins 2nd prize at the EuroEAP Society Challenge 2023 (presented at EuroEAP 2023) for his research on versatile jellyfish-like robots powered by electrohydraulic actuators

Organizational Leadership and Diversity 08-06-2023 Panel Discussion at Deutsche Bahn

Haptic Intelligence Award 06-06-2023 Doctoral student Yijie Gong wins a 500 USD travel grant to attend the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in London, England Yijie Gong

Embodied Vision Award 01-06-2023 Jörg Stückler receives an open-research award from the Max Planck Amazon Science Hub for the project "Physically plausible multi-object 6D pose estimation in object piles from RGB-D images". Jörg Stückler

Dynamic Locomotion Award 01-06-2023 IEEE Outstanding Locomotion Paper Award Abhishek Chatterjee, An Mo, Bernadett Kiss, Emre Cemal Goenen, and Alexander Badri-Spröwitz received the best paper award in the category 'outstanding locomotion paper award’, at ICRA 2023 Abhishek Chatterjee An Mo Bernadett Kiss Emre Cemal Gönen Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-06-2023 Immihan Ceren Garip became Assistant Professor at HKUST in China. Immihan Ceren Yasa

Empirical Inference Award 01-06-2023 Majid Khadiv received the outstanding reviewer award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters for the year of 2022

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-06-2023 Oncay Yasa became Assistant Professor at HKUST in China. Oncay Yasa

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-06-2023 Zhen Yin became Full Professor at Tongji University in China. Zhen Yin

Empirical Inference Award 23-05-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf elected Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain

Perceiving Systems Award 16-05-2023 Michael J. Black, Timo Bolkart, Jinlong Yang, Xu Chen, and Mathis Petrovich receive Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2023.

Empirical Inference News 03-05-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf receives the 2022 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his groundbreaking research in the field of artificial intelligence One of the world's most important prizes in the research field of AI goes for the first time to a scientist from the Max Planck Society, to Europe for the fourth time. Bernhard Schölkopf

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-05-2023 Jongkuk Ko became Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Kookmin University in S. Korea. Jongkuk Ko

Haptic Intelligence Award 28-04-2023 Rachael Bevill Burns is named an RSS Pioneer Rachael Burns

Empirical Inference News 27-04-2023 Casting a safety net: a reliable machine learning approach for analyzing coalescing black holes Self-checking algorithm interprets gravitational-wave data An interdisciplinary team from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics has developed an algorithm that immediately checks its own calculations of merging black holes’ properties and corrects its result if necessary – inexpensively and rapidly. The machine learning method provides very accurate information about the observed gravitational waves and will be ready for use when the global network of gravitational-wave detectors starts its next observing run in May. Maximilian Dax Jonas Wildberger Jakob Macke Bernhard Schölkopf

Robotic Materials Physical Intelligence News 25-04-2023 Jellyfish-like robots could one day clean up the world’s oceans Roboticists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a jellyfish-inspired underwater robot with which they hope one day to collect waste from the bottom of the ocean. The almost noise-free prototype can trap objects underneath its body without physical contact, thereby enabling safe interactions in delicate environments such as coral reefs. Jellyfish-Bot could become an important tool for environmental remediation. Tianlu Wang Hyeong-Joon Joo Shanyuan Song Wenqi Hu Christoph Keplinger Metin Sitti

Autonomous Learning News 20-04-2023 Albane Ruaud selected to join the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting The postdoctoral researcher from the Autonomous Learning Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen is one of 635 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. Albane Ruaud

Empirical Inference Award 14-04-2023 Julius von Kügelgen: Best Paper Award, CLeaR Conference 2023

Haptic Intelligence Award 12-04-2023 Doctoral student Nataliya Rokhmanova wins a 750 EUR travel grant to attend the 2023 CHI Doctoral Consortium in Hamburg, Germany Nataliya Rokhmanova

Perceiving Systems Award 05-04-2023 Shashank Tripathi receives the Meta PhD Research Fellowship Award 2023.

Robotic Materials Award 03-04-2023 Daniela Macari awarded 2nd place of the best poster award in RoboSoft 2023 Daniela Macari

Autonomous Learning Appointment 01-04-2023 Georg Martius is appointed W3 professor at the University of Tübingen

Physical Intelligence 01-04-2023 Mehmet Efe Tiryaki and Metin Sitti received the Best Medical Robotics Award Honorable Mention in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference Mehmet Efe Tiryaki Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence News 30-03-2023 Birgül Akolpoglu selected to join the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting The doctoral researcher from the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, is one of 635 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. Birgül Akolpoglu Metin Sitti

Robotic Materials News 22-03-2023 Biodegradable artificial muscles: going green in the field of soft robotics Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and at University of Colorado Boulder in the US developed fully biodegradable, high-performance artificial muscles. Their research project marks another step towards green technology becoming a lasting trend in the field of soft robotics. Ellen Rumley Philipp Rothemund Zachary Yoder Benjamin Karrer Christoph Keplinger Alona Shagan

Dynamic Locomotion 20-03-2023 Publication: Muscle prestimulation tunes velocity preflex in simulated perturbed hopping

Physical Intelligence Award 20-03-2023 Wenbin Kang received the Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship. Wenbin Kang

Empirical Inference Award 07-03-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf, Asteroid (53839) Schölkopf = 2000 EY 197

Haptic Intelligence Award 03-03-2023 Former doctoral student Alexis E. Block is selected for the "Microsoft Future Leaders in Robotics and AI" seminar series organized by the Maryland Robotics Center Alexis Block

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-03-2023 Wei Feng became Full Professor at University of Science and Technology of China in China. Wei Feng

Empirical Inference Award 28-02-2023 Francesco Locatello (Alumnus) received the Hector-Foundation-Award 2023

Dynamic Locomotion 25-02-2023 Slack-based Tunable Damping was published in Scientific Reports Our work on 'Slack-based Tunable Damping' was published in Scientific Reports An Mo Fabio Izzi Emre Cemal Gönen Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Haptic Intelligence Award 12-02-2023 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for her contributions to the peer-review process of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Embodied Vision News 02-02-2023 3 papers accepted at IEEE ICRA 2023 3 out of 3 paper submission got accepted at IEEE ICRA 2023!

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-02-2023 Jaekang Kim became Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Gachon University in S. Korea. Jaekang Kim

Physical Intelligence Award 30-01-2023 Ziyu Ren was honored with the ETH Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis. Ziyu Ren

Physical Intelligence News 30-01-2023 Ziyu Ren wins ETH Silver Medal The postdoctoral researcher at MPI-IS was honored for his outstanding doctoral thesis Ziyu Ren Metin Sitti

News 19-01-2023 Nomination sought for the position of Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen The MPI for Intelligent Systems expects to have an opening for a director and scientific member of the Max Planck Society (MPG) in areas related to machine learning, including modern robotics, and natural language understanding. Eva Laemmerhirt

Physical Intelligence 01-01-2023 Metin Sitti was elected as the Highly Cited Researcher and received the Material Science Leader Award by Clarivate. Metin Sitti

Robotic Materials Award 15-12-2022 Christoph Keplinger is awarded a research grant, funded by the FHG-MPG Cooperation Program, for €2M, over 4 years, to develop wearable assistive exosuits for lower limb and human trunk (MaxwellSuits). Christoph M. Keplinger Adrian Koh

Empirical Inference Award 03-12-2022 Hamza Keurti, Hsiao-Ru Pan, Michel Besserve, Benjamin Grewe, Bernhard Schölkopf: Best abstract award at the NeurReps workshop @ NeurIPS 2022 for the paper "Homomorphism AutoEncoder — Learning Group Structured Representations from Observed Transitions"

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