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News 10-12-2024 Delivering medicines with microscopic flowers Joint research from the groups of Daniel Razansky and Metin Sitti These small particles are reminiscent of paper flowers or desert roses. Physicians can use them to guide medicines to a precise destination within the body. Better yet, the particles can easily be tracked using ultrasound as they scatter sound waves. These findings have just been reported by the groups led by Daniel Razansky and Metin Sitti in a study published in the journal external page Advanced Materials. Razansky is Professor of Biomedical Imaging with double appointment at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. Sitti is an expert in microrobotics and, until recently, was a professor at ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart prior to moving to Koç University in Istanbul. “Previously, researchers primarily investigated tiny gas bubbles as a method of transport through the bloodstream using ultrasound or other acoustic methods,” said Paul Wrede, co-author of the study and a CLS doctoral student. “We have now demonstrated that solid microparticles can also be acoustically guided.” The advantage of the flower particles over the bubbles is that they can be loaded with larger quantities of active ingredient molecules. (Image: Dong Wook Kim / Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, colorization: ETH Zurich)

Robotic Materials Award 06-12-2024 Daniela Macari wins the 2024 Gender Equality Award of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Daniela Macari

Organizational Leadership and Diversity Award 06-12-2024 Ksenia Keplinger wins the 2024 Gender Equality Award of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

Perceiving Systems Award 03-12-2024 ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Test-of-Time Award 2024 For the paper "MoSh: Motion and shape capture from sparse markers", published at SIGGRAPH Asia 2014. Co-authors: Matthew Loper, Naureen Mahmood, Michael J. Black. Michael J. Black Matthew Loper Naureen Mahmood

Perceiving Systems Blog Post 9 minute read 03-12-2024 MoSh: Motion and Shape Capture in the Age of AI Test-of-Time Award Winner, SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Michael J. Black Naureen Mahmood Matthew Loper

News 15-11-2024 Students honored at the National Artificial Intelligence School Contest BWKI Algorithms for intelligent traffic light control, sharp microscope images and against bee mortality – Federal President Steinmeier exchanges ideas with finalists in Tübingen Bernhard Schölkopf Wieland Brendel

Algorithms and Society 12-11-2024 Guest lecture Celestine holding a guest lecture at the ETH AI seminar on law and economics

Perceiving Systems Blog Post Michael J. Black 33 minute read 08-11-2024 Writing a good scientific paper

Physical Intelligence News 07-11-2024 3D robot navigation could enable multi-site medical procedures Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, developed a novel method for deploying several magnetic miniature robots which can easily navigate through a 3D matrix resembling a network of blood vessels. This new method could one day enable the simultaneous treatment of multiple locations in hard-to-reach areas of the human body, which is currently unattainable with conventional tools. This innovative approach could significantly reduce procedure time and increase the effectiveness of minimally invasive therapies. Chunxiang Wang Tianlu Wang Li Mingtong Rongjing Zhang Metin Sitti

Algorithms and Society 01-11-2024 Anna joining the group Anna will join for an internship

Empirical Inference Award 22-10-2024 Annalena Kofler receives Best Poster Award at the 2nd Tübingen Women in Machine Learning workshop.

News 15-10-2024 Forty years of robotics research showcased at ICRA@40 The fortieth anniversary of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40) took place from September 23 to 26 and showcased everything from robot design and control to AI tools and materials. The robotics community decided to celebrate this anniversary by holding a special conference in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The aim of the gathering was to look back at the robotic innovations that have shaped our past and to look forward to the technologies that will define the future of this research field. 82 distinguished faculty speakers from around the world took the stage to deliver short talks about their vision of robotics research. Among them was Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Director of the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS).

News 10-10-2024 Funded Ph.D. Positions at the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen collaborate to offer an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS). IMPRS-IS will accept its ninth generation of doctoral researchers in spring of 2025. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Sara Sorce Pannapa Huayhangtong

Haptic Intelligence Award 09-10-2024 Postdocs Yarden Sharon and Vani Sundaram are selected for the MPG workshop Sign Up! Yarden Sharon Vani Sundaram

Haptic Intelligence Award 03-10-2024 Doctoral student Nataliya Rokhmanova is selected to attend "Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering" held at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA Nataliya Rokhmanova

Human Aspects of Machine Learning Award 01-10-2024 Omri Ben-Dov received the ELSA mobility grant for a research visit in the university of Copenhagen Omri received the ELSA mobility grant for a research visit in the university of Copenhagen to work with Amartya Sanyal Omri Ben-Dov

Learning and Dynamical Systems Award 01-10-2024 Best Paper Award: UNSURE Workshop MICCAI Best Paper Award: UNSURE Workshop MICCAI Michael Muehlebach

Haptic Intelligence Appointment 01-10-2024 David Gueorguiev becomes Independent Scientist at UCLouvain, Belgium David Gueorguiev

Empirical Inference Appointment 01-10-2024 Dieter Büchler is now Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. Furthermore he was nominated for the CIFAR AI chair and part of Amii. Dieter Büchler

Algorithms and Society 01-10-2024 Haiqing joining the group

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-10-2024 Mengmeng Sun became Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore, Singapore. Mengmeng Sun

Empirical Inference Appointment 01-10-2024 Michel Besserve is now Professor for Artificial Intelligence at the TU Braunschweig, Germany. Michel Besserve

Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-10-2024 Mingchao Zhang became the Presidential Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore. Mingchao Zhang

Perceiving Systems Award 25-09-2024 Sai Kumar Dwivedi and Peter Kulits receive Outstanding Reviewer Awards, ECCV 2024. Sai Kumar Dwivedi Peter Kulits

Algorithms and Society 24-09-2024 Keynote talk Presenting our work on the use of LLMs in Social Science Research at the Cornell Thought Summit on the Future of Survey Science.

Robotic Materials Appointment 19-09-2024 Christoph Keplinger joins the Editorial Advisory Board of Advanced Robotics Research Christoph Keplinger

Haptic Intelligence Award 19-09-2024 Doctoral student Bernadett Kiss wins an honorable mention for the prize for best poster presentation at the 2024 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Bernadett Kiss

Haptic Intelligence Award 19-09-2024 Doctoral student Iris Andrussow wins the prize for best poster presentation at the 2024 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Iris Andrussow

Robotic Materials News 18-09-2024 Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules shape-shift into versatile robots Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart combined soft artificial muscles with a rigid, magnetic exoskeleton to create building blocks for fast-moving reconfigurable robots. Ellen Rumley Zachary Yoder Ingemar Schmidt Philipp Rothemund Christoph Keplinger

Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 13-09-2024 VMV 2024 Best Paper Honorable Mention VMV 2024 Best Paper Honorable Mention for the work Controllable Action-aware Manifold for 3D Motion Synthesis, a collaboration with the group of Christian Theobalt (MPI-I). Balamurugan Thambiraja

Robotic Materials News 09-09-2024 Artificial muscles propel a robotic leg to walk and jump Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a robotic leg with artificial muscles. Inspired by living creatures, it jumps across different terrains in an agile and energy-efficient manner. The CLS team was led by Robert Katzschmann, Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich and Christoph Keplinger at MPI-IS. Their doctoral students Thomas Buchner and Toshihiko Fukushima are the co-first authors of the team’s publication team has now reported on an their animal-inspired musculoskeletal robotic leg in Nature Communications. (Image: Thomas Buchner / ETH Zurich und Toshihiko Fukushima / Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme).

Physics for Inference and Optimization Appointment 01-09-2024 Caterina De Bacco

Physics for Inference and Optimization Award 31-08-2024 Caterina De Bacco receives the Physical Review E Reviewer Excellence Award 2024 thanks to the work she has done while at MPI-IS, reviewing for the Physical Review E journal.

Robotic Materials Appointment 21-08-2024 Adrian Koh is appointed Associated Editor for RoboSoft 2025 Adrian Koh

Robust Machine Learning Award 01-08-2024 Emmy Noether Extension

Autonomous Learning Appointment 01-08-2024 Huanbo Sun becomes Assistant Professor in Peking University Test Abstract

News 17-07-2024 Learning from the Nobel Laureates in Lindau Early this July, two members of the MPI-IS community were invited to the 73rd Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting held in Lindau. Andrew Schulz, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and postdoctoral researcher in the Haptic Intelligence Department, and Zhijing Jin, a Ph.D. student in the Empirical Inference Department, had the time of their life meeting many inspiring nobel laureates. Zhijing Jin Andrew Schulz

Perceiving Systems Blog Post Michael J. Black 14 minute read 16-07-2024 Ask me anything -- July 2024 Conversations on X about vision and careers Michael J. Black

Perceiving Systems Blog Post 3 minute read 16-07-2024 Good-enough AI and the commoditization of intelligence

Haptic Intelligence Award 15-07-2024 Rachael Bevill Burns receives an honorable mention for the MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize Rachael Burns

Physical Intelligence Appointment 15-07-2024 Rongjing Zhang becomes Associate Professor at the Beihang University, China Rongjing Zhang

Empirical Inference News 15-07-2024 Siyuan Guo wins 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize Rachael Bevill Burns, Marilyn Keller and Cansu Sancaktar receive honorable mentions Siyuan Guo Marilyn Keller Rachael Burns Cansu Sancaktar Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Bernhard Schölkopf Florian Hartmann Alona Shagan

Empirical Inference Appointment 15-07-2024 Zhijing Jin will become Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto

Perceiving Systems Award 11-07-2024 Aamir Ahmad is one of the 2024 KI Champions Baden-Württemberg for the project "WildCap: Intelligente Flugroboter für den Wildtierschutz", funded by Cyber Valley.

Perceiving Systems Award 05-07-2024 Marilyn Keller wins Honorable Mention for the 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize.

Empirical Inference Award 05-07-2024 Siyuan Guo: 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize

Perceiving Systems Award 04-07-2024 Yao Feng was selected as WiGRAPH Rising Stars in Computer Graphics.

Organizational Leadership and Diversity 02-07-2024 KIT Speaker Series "Decisions & Design"

Algorithms and Society 02-07-2024 Keynote talk

Neural Capture and Synthesis Award 01-07-2024 Justus Thies receives the DAGM German Pattern Recognition Award 2024.

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