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Robotic Materials Award 13-06-2024 Ellen Rumley and Zachary Yoder win 1st place of the 2024 EuroEAP Society Challenge. Ellen Rumley Zachary Yoder Johannes Walter Alona Shagan

Robotic Materials News 04-06-2024 EuroEAP 2024 comes to Stuttgart! 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. Philipp Rothemund Christoph Keplinger

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Award 01-06-2024 Our research won the Best Poster Award in ICRA2024 Workshop

Haptic Intelligence Award 27-05-2024 Doctoral student Nataliya Rokhmanova is selected by the Max Planck Society to be a nominee for 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows program Nataliya Rokhmanova

Haptic Intelligence Award 27-05-2024 Postdoc Mayumi Mohan and her team win the competition at MPG Career Evolution Games Week Mayumi Mohan

Organizational Leadership and Diversity 23-05-2024 ERC Starting grant interview Ksenia Keplinger

Haptic Intelligence Award 17-05-2024 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker debates on the Future of Robotics Research at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence News 17-05-2024 Katherine Kuchenbecker debates about the peer-review process at ICRA 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. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Embodied Vision Award 16-05-2024 Jörg Stückler is recognized as an Outstanding Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Jörg Stückler

Empirical Inference Award 16-05-2024 Julius von Kügelgen won the Cambridge PhD Prize in Quantitative Research (administered by G-Research) Julius von Kügelgen

Haptic Intelligence Appointment 10-05-2024 Hyosang Lee becomes Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology Hyosang Lee

Social Foundations of Computation News 07-05-2024 André Cruz, Moritz Hardt: ICLR 2024 Oral with the paper "Unprocessing Seven Years of Algorithmic Fairness"

Physical Intelligence Award 01-05-2024 Ali Amini Harandi received the NSREC postdoctoral fellowship from Canada. Ali Amini Harandi

News 25-04-2024 Diamond dust shines bright in Magnetic Resonance Imaging 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 Anna-Maria Wild Peter Schützendübe Anitha Shiva Metin Sitti

Empirical Inference Award 24-04-2024 Niki Kilbertus receives Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientists Niki Kilbertus

Physical Intelligence News 11-04-2024 Cyber Valley grants 500K to CELL’n’ROLL via 2023 Innovation Fellowship Program 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. Alp Can Karacakol Erdost Yildiz Ugur Bozuyuk

Haptic Intelligence Award 10-04-2024 Behnam Khojasteh, Yitian Shao, and KJK win best IEEE Transactions on Haptics short paper at the IEEE Haptics Symposium Behnam Khojasteh Yitian Shao Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Physical Intelligence Award 01-04-2024 CELLnROLL team has been awarded the CyberValley Innovation Fellowship. Erdost Yildiz Alp Can Karacakol Ugur Bozuyuk

Physical Intelligence Award 01-04-2024 Chong Hong, Yingdan Wu and Metin Sitti received the Best Workshop Poster Award in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference Chong Hong Yingdan Wu Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Award 01-04-2024 Xianqiang Bao and Metin Sitti received the Best Paper Award in Automation in the IEEE Int. Conference on Mechatronics and Automation Xianqiang Bao Metin Sitti

Dynamic Locomotion 29-03-2024 Patent granted for 'Advanced mechanism for segmented robotic legs' Patent granted for 'Advanced mechanism for segmented robotic legs' Alborz Aghamaleki Sarvestani Alexander Badri-Spröwitz

Organizational Leadership and Diversity 22-03-2024 AI Lunch Deutsche Bahn

News 21-03-2024 Zhijing Jin and Andrew Schulz selected to join the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 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 J. Kuchenbecker Bernhard Schölkopf

Haptic Intelligence Award 01-03-2024 Andrew K. Schulz wins a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship Andrew Schulz

Haptic Intelligence Appointment 01-03-2024 Saekwang Nam becomes Assistant Professor at Kyungpook National University Saekwang Nam

Haptic Intelligence Award 26-02-2024 Former Postdoc Hasti Seifi wins an NSF CAREER Award titled “Democratizing Haptics: Enabling Novice Designers with Vibrotactile Models and Tools” Hasti Seifi

Rationality Enhancement 20-02-2024 AAAI-24 Student Scholar Ruiqi He

News 06-02-2024 MAXMINDS impacts lives of students in Turkey and Syria Wir erinnern uns an die Erdbeben in der Türkei & in Syrien. 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. Erdost Yildiz

Physical Intelligence Award 06-02-2024 Metin Sitti is elected as a member of National Academy of Engineering Metin Sitti

Empirical Inference Award 05-02-2024 Vincent Stimper receives G-Research PhD Prize.

Empirical Inference Award 16-01-2024 Zhijing Jin receives 3 Rising Star awards: EECS Rising Star, Rising Star in Data Science, and Rising Star in Machine Learning and invited to the 73. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2024 Metin Sitti was elected as the Highly Cited Researcher and received the Material Science Leader Award by Clarivate. Metin Sitti

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-01-2024 Tianlu Wang becomes Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii Tianlu Wang

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-01-2024 Yingdan Wu became Assistant Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology in China. Yingdan Wu

Empirical Inference News 01-01-2024 Zhijing Jin receives three Rising Star Awards 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. Zhijing Jin Bernhard Schölkopf

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-01-2024 Ziyu Ren became Associate Professor at Beihang University, China Ziyu Ren

Learning and Dynamical Systems News 14-12-2023 Branco Weiss Lecture Public lecture on "(un)"predictability - a journey through elements of chaos and control theory, quantum mechanics, machine learning, and how humans deal with (un)predictability.

Perceiving Systems Award 13-12-2023 Marilyn Keller, Keenon Werling, Soyong Shin, Scott Delp, Sergi Pujades, C. Karen Liu, and Michael J. Black receive Honorable Mention for Best Paper at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 for the paper "From Skin to Skeleton: Towards Biomechanically Accurate 3D Digital Humans".

Learning and Dynamical Systems Award 01-12-2023 Extension of Emmy Noether Fellowship Extension of Emmy Noether Fellowship Michael Muehlebach

Physical Intelligence Award 01-12-2023 Ugur Bozüyük receives the ETH Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis "Magnetic Surface Microrollers for Endovascular Navigation". Ugur Bozuyuk

News 25-11-2023 Branco Weiss Lecture Public lecture about (un)predictability.

Perceiving Systems Award 24-11-2023 Soubhik Sanyal receives the NeurIPS 2023 Top Reviewer Award.

Learning and Dynamical Systems News 24-11-2023 Presentation at NeurIPS Our work "Online Learning under Adversarial Nonlinear Constraints" was accepted to NeurIPS23.

News 22-11-2023 Deutschlands KI-Nachwuchs beim Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz ausgezeichnet Ob Fake-Fotos entlarven, Igel vor dem Mähroboter schützen oder Lebensmittel retten – die Gewinnerteams 2023 wollen mit KI gesellschaftliche und ökologische Probleme lösen. Bernhard Schölkopf Wieland Brendel

Haptic Intelligence Award 22-11-2023 Giulia Ballardini is selected for the MPG workshop Sign Up! Giulia Ballardini

Empirical Inference Award 16-11-2023 Amir-Hossein Karimi receives the ETH Silver Medal for his outstanding doctoral thesis "Advances in Algorithmic Recourse: Ensuring Causal Consistency, Fairness, & Robustness".

News 31-10-2023 Science & Innovation Days 2023 - unser MPI macht mit! Mehr als 50 Veranstaltungen an vier Tagen – Vorträge, Workshops, Podiumsdiskussionen und vieles mehr

News 30-10-2023 Mit KI für eine bessere Zukunft: Jugendliche im Finale des Bundeswettbewerbs Künstliche Intelligenz Schülerinnen und Schüler wollen mit Künstlicher Intelligenz Fake- Fotos entlarven, Igel vor dem Mähroboter schützen oder mit kosten- günstigen Analysen die Gesundheitsversorgung verbessern

News 19-10-2023 First Principal Investigators join the ELLIS Institute Tübingen gGmbH as Hector Endowed Fellows Finanzierung durch die Hector-Stiftung Tübingen, Germany - After the launch in July 2023, the ELLIS Institute Tübingen is growing, with the first Principal Investigators joining the Institute as Hector Endowed Fellows in the fall of 2023. Carmela Rianna Bernhard Schölkopf

News 15-10-2023 Funded Ph.D. Positions at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems Apply to do a Ph.D. in the joint academic program between ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Society, primarily the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart and Tübingen. We are currently accepting applications to join our program in 2024. Sarah Danes Helena Dalmau Felderhoff

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