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Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Jiachen Zhang and Yichao Tang received the Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship.
Physical Intelligence Award 01-01-2019 Ziyu Ren, Tianlu Wang, Wenqi Hu, and Metin Sitti received the Best Paper Award in the Robotics Science and Systems Conference for the research paper entitled, "A Magnetically Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer".
Empirical Inference Award 31-12-2018 2018 Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation (Jan Peters et. al.)  
Physical Intelligence Award 19-12-2018 Hamed Shahsavan received the Canadian NSERC postdoctoral fellowship.
Haptic Intelligence Award 18-12-2018 Ph.D. student Mayumi Mohan is selected to participate in the HRI Pioneers 2019 Workshop Mayumi Mohan
Smart Nanoplasmonics Award 18-12-2018 Laura Na Liu receives the Rudolf-Kaiser prize 2018. The award honours a young scientist in experimental physics who has already achieved outstanding scientific achievements but who does not yet hold a German University chair. The prize is intended to improve the starting chances of those who are about to establish themselves scientifically.
Autonomous Motion News 14-12-2018 Launch of Playful, a success The robotic behavior orchestration software is now available to academia and industry. Vincent Berenz
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Empirical Inference Award 13-12-2018 Olivier Bousquet, Leon Bottou: Test of Time Award, 2018 Neural Information Processing Systems conference, for their 2007 paper on “The Tradeoffs of Large Scale Learning” reporting work originally started in 2003 when Olivier Bousquet was a member of our lab.  
Empirical Inference Award 10-12-2018 Bernhard Schölkopf receives the Landesforschungspreis 2018 for Basic Research by the State of Baden-Württemberg.
Empirical Inference News 10-12-2018 Bernhard Schölkopf erhält Landesforschungspreis 2018 Der Direktor der Abteilung für Empirische Inferenz am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme in Tübingen erhält den diesjährigen Landesforschungspreis Baden-Württemberg. Die Auszeichnung ist mit 100.000 Euro dotiert. Theresia Bauer, Ministerin für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, hat den Experten für Maschinelles Lernen im Rahmen eines Festakts in der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart geehrt. Bernhard Schölkopf
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Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems News 07-12-2018 Superhero Gecko´s latest mystery solved An international team of Scientists observed the reptil running across the surface of water – a skill no other more mid-sized creature has. How, the scientists wondered, do geckos manage to walk on water this quickly? The new discovery of the mechanisms geckos employ puts the lizard in the superhero category. Ardian Jusufi
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News 06-12-2018 European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) Launches Top European Machine Learning Scientists Join Forces to Establish European Excellence Network for Public Artificial Intelligence Research Bernhard Schölkopf Matthias Bethge
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Physical Intelligence Award 06-12-2018 Wenqi Hu, Guo Zhan Lum, and Metin Sitti received the Innovator of the Year Award in medical devices topic by the Design & Elektronik Magazine in Germany due to the invention of soft medical robots.
News 05-12-2018 Frequently asked questions regarding Cyber Valley Europe's largest research cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence is receiving a great deal of attention from politics, the media, science and people from the Stuttgart-Tübingen region and beyond. Here is a collection of the most frequently asked questions about this initiative. Matthias Tröndle Tamara Almeyda Anna Benzin
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Autonomous Learning News 04-12-2018 Poster @ NeurIPS 2018 presentation of our L4 Paper We had a busy 2h poster presentation with many interested visitors
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News 03-12-2018 Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz gestartet Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Cyber Valley Initiative – Schülerinnen und Schüler sollen deutschlandweit eigene KI-Prototypen entwickeln – Registrierung ab sofort möglich Bernhard Schölkopf
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Physical Intelligence Award 01-12-2018 Ahmet F. Tabak and Metin Sitti were the Best Medical Robotics Award Finalist in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference for the research paper entitled, “Mechanical Rubbing of Blood Clots Using Helical Robots Under Ultrasound Guidance”.
Perceiving Systems News 29-11-2018 Michael Black receives UBC Computer Science Department Alumni Research Award 2018 Michael Black was awarded the University of British Columbia, Computer Science Department, Alumni Research Award 2018. Michael Black
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Haptic Intelligence Award 29-11-2018 Ph.D. student Alexis E. Block wins a 2,500 USD research grant from the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics Alexis Block
News 29-11-2018 Österreichs Bundespräsident Van der Bellen besucht das Cyber Valley Am Donnerstag Vormittag, den 29. November 2018, besuchte der österreichische Bundespräsident Dr. Alexander Van der Bellen zusammen mit Baden-Württembergs Ministerpräsident Winfried Kretschmann das Cyber Valley. Bernhard Schölkopf Matthias Tröndle Julia Braun Claudia Daefler
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Autonomous Vision News 27-11-2018 Lars GTC talk on the Dynamics of Generative Adversarial Networks Lars GTC Europe talk on the Dynamics of Generative Adversarial Networks is now available.
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Probabilistic Numerics News 23-11-2018 Top 40 under 40 This year Philipp Hennig is among the "Top 40 under 40" in the category Society and Science. For the eleventh time the magazine Capital has chosen the "Young Elite - the Top 40 under 40". According to Capital, these are the most important talents that shape our country. Philipp Hennig
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Physical Intelligence News 22-11-2018 Metin Sitti receives Rahmi Koç Medal of Science Award recognizes most promising researchers of Turkish origin Metin Sitti
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Physical Intelligence Award 21-11-2018 Metin Sitti received the Rahmi Koç Medal of Science, in Turkey, which is given to one world-wide pioneering Turkish-origin scientist each year.
Probabilistic Numerics Award 21-11-2018 Philipp Hennig has been named as one of Germany's "40 under 40" influential young people in the category Science and Society. 
Movement Generation and Control News 20-11-2018 "Revolutionizing" the way robots move in complex environment The Movement Generation and Control Group is an important partner of the new European Project Memmo The EU funded Memmo project aims to revolutionize the way robots with arms and legs move by developing novel real-time methods for motion generation of complex robot, able to cope with the complexity of humanoid and other legged robots in realistic industrial and medical environments. The 4-year-project, led by the LAAS-CNRS in France, involves 10 different partners across Europe including the Movement Generation and Control Group at MPI-IS. Ludovic Righetti Andrea Del Prete Ahmad Gazar
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News 19-11-2018 Cyber Valley and Bosch present AI CON 2018 "Im Cyber Valley schaffen Wissenschaft und Industrie gemeinsam ein Ökosystem für die beste KI-Forschung" - Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf The conference brings together leaders of AI in academic and corporate research Bernhard Schölkopf Tamara Almeyda Anna Benzin Claudia Daefler
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News 15-11-2018 Marc Toussaint becomes a Max Planck Fellow Robotics Professor from the University of Stuttgart ties a stronger knot with the MPI for Intelligent Systems Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
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Smart Nanoplasmonics Award 13-11-2018 Laura Na Liu receives the 2018 Kavli Foundation Early Career Award, which recognizes significant novel contributions to materials science by a young researcher.
Empirical Inference News 09-11-2018 Bernhard Schölkopf at the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin The International Conference on Future - Breakthroughs in Science and Society Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf, Director of the department "Empirical Inference", is talking about Artificial Intelligence. Friday, November 9, 4:45 p.m, Berlin, Radialsystem V, Holzmarktstraße 33. Bernhard Schölkopf
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Smart Nanoplasmonics News 09-11-2018 Laura Na Liu receives 2018 Kavli Foundation Early Career Award The award recognizes significant novel contributions to materials science by a young researcher Laura Na Liu
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Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems News 02-11-2018 Nanorobots propel through the eye Scientists developed specially coated nanometer-sized vehicles that can be actively moved through dense tissue like the vitreous of the eye. So far, the transport of nano-vehicles has only been demonstrated in model systems or biological fluids, but not in real tissue. The work was published in the journal Science Advances and constitutes one step further towards nanorobots becoming minimally-invasive tools for precisely delivering medicine to where it is needed. Zhiguang Wu Tian Qiu Peer Fischer
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News 26-10-2018 Visit by Science Minister Theresia Bauer Tübingen - On Thursday 26th October, Baden-Württemberg's Science Minister Theresia Bauer visited us at the Institute. Media representatives from the region were also invited. The reason for the event was to present the Cyber Valley Initiative - one of the largest research cooperations in Europe in the field of artificial intelligence - to the press.
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News 25-10-2018 Funded Ph.D. positions available at IMPRS-IS Want to contribute to world-leading research in areas such as machine learning, computer vision, robot dynamics and control, micro- and nano-robotics, or haptics? Then sign up for the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems or IMPRS-IS now! Leila Masri
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Haptic Intelligence Award 23-10-2018 Postdoc Yasemin Vardar is selected to participate in the MPG's Sign up! career-building program Yasemin Vardar
Rationality Enhancement News 15-10-2018 Lin Xu joined our lab Lin Xu has joined our lab for an internship on incentivizing self-directed learning with optimal brain points. She studied human-computer-interaction at the University of Munich and received her master’s degree in 2018. Welcome Lin! Lin Xu
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News 15-10-2018 Lin Xu joined our lab Lin Xu has joined our lab for an internship on incentivizing self-directed learning with optimal brain points. She studied human-computer-interaction at the University of Munich and received her master’s degree in 2018. Welcome Lin!
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Embodied Vision News 12-10-2018 Michael Strecke receives DAGM Best Master’s Thesis Award Michael Strecke received the DAGM Best Master's Thesis Award at this year's GCPR conference for his thesis "Sublabel-accurate Convex Relaxation with Total Generalized Variation Regularization" which he wrote at Universität Konstanz. Michael Strecke
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Perceiving Systems News 11-10-2018 Siyu Tang receives DAGM MVTec 2018 Dissertation Award The German Association for Pattern Recognition praises her work to be “outstanding” Tübingen – Dr. Siyu Tang received the DAGM MVTec 2018 Dissertation Award at the German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) conference in Stuttgart today. Her thesis with the title “People Detection and Tracking in Crowded Scenes” was praised by the board and the technical committee of the DAGM (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung) to be outstanding. “There was quite some competition this year”, said Reinhard Koch, the President of DAGM, which can be translated as German Association for Pattern Recognition. “This year we even decided to double the award money and grant two first places. Mrs. Tang will receive one of both. Congratulations for this achievement!” The award comes with a price money of 2.500 Euro and was given during the DAGM Award ceremony on Wednesday afternoon. Siyu Tang
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Perceiving Systems Award 10-10-2018 Siyu Tang receives the DAGM MVTec 2018 Dissertation Award at the German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) for her thesis “People Detection and Tracking in Crowded Scenes”.
Perceiving Systems News 10-10-2018 Body perception research using virtual reality – is this avatar really me? How do we perceive our own body weight? Which body weight do we find attractive? An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems place test persons in front of their virtual selves and examine their self-perception. The aim of the studies is to investigate how accurately healthy women and men, incl. patients with anorexia nervosa, perceive their own body weight. The findings provide insights for new therapy approaches for people with eating disorders. Michael Black Anne Thaler Simone Behrens
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News 10-10-2018 Tübingen to host one of four new Competence Centers for Machine Learning in Germany University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Tübingen research robust learning algorithms Tübingen is to receive a competence center for artificial intelligence and machine learning. This will make it one of four locations at which Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research plans to pool scientific projects in artificial intelligence. The Tübingen AI Center will provide research groups at the University and at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems with a place to develop learning systems. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research will sponsor the center with some 6.6 million euros for an initial four years, starting 1 October. Three other AI centers are to be set up in Berlin, Dortmund and Munich. The centers are to play a key role in the German government’s artificial intelligence development strategy. Michael Black Matthias Tröndle
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News 09-10-2018 Cyber Valley goes new.New Das Festival bringt Unternehmer, Forscher und Start-ups zusammen. Da darf das Team rund um Cyber Valley nicht fehlen. Tamara Almeyda Anna Benzin
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News 08-10-2018 Quadruple Excellence Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems involved in four newly funded Clusters of Excellence in Stuttgart and Tübingen The German national Excellence Strategy has decided which new Clusters of Excellence will be funded from 2019 onwards. On September 27, 2018, the panel of experts and the Science Ministers of the Federal Government and the States announced the selection of 57 research alliances as Clusters of Excellence. These winners were chosen from 88 full proposals and 195 original applications. The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) was involved in four applications, all of which were selected for funding as Clusters of Excellence. In Stuttgart, MPI-IS scientists were directly involved in both of the successful proposals at the University of Stuttgart. In Tübingen, MPI-IS is involved in two of the University of Tübingen's three approved clusters. Michael Black Bernhard Schölkopf Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Metin Sitti
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Empirical Inference Award 01-10-2018 Dominik Janzing, Jonas Peters, Bernhard Schölkopf: Causality in Statistics Education Award (American Statistical Association).
Movement Generation and Control Award 01-10-2018 Ludovic Righetti was designated by New York University Provost’s Office, together with the Tandon School of Engineering as the Vivian G. Prins Global Scholar at New York University for 2018-2019.
Dynamic Locomotion Award 01-10-2018 Charlotte le Mouel receives a DAAD postdoctoral fellowship, and joins the Dynamic Locomotion Group. Congratulations, and welcome!
Autonomous Motion News 28-09-2018 Finalist Amazon Robotics Best Paper Awards AMD is one of three finalists for the Best Systems Paper Our paper on “Real-time Perception meets Reactive Motion Generation” was considered for the 2018 Amazon Robotics Best Paper Awards in Manipulation. Amazon Robotics selected our paper as one of three Finalists for Best Systems Paper. They received so many high quality submissions and wanted to acknowledge your paper as one of the best. Daniel Kappler Franzi Meier Jan Issac Jim Mainprice Cristina Garcia Cifuentes Manuel Wüthrich Vincent Berenz Stefan Schaal Nathan Ratliff Jeannette Bohg
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Autonomous Vision News 25-09-2018 PhD Position: Learning Interpretable Representations We are looking for a PhD student working on interpretable representations. Andreas Geiger
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Perceiving Systems Award 12-09-2018 The paper "Neural Body Fitting: Unifying Deep Learning and Model-Based Human Pose and Shape Estimation" wins Best Student Paper Award at 3DV 2018.