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Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Conference Paper Cheetah tail behavior during pursuit Patel, A., Jericevich, R., Knemeyer, A., Jusufi, A. In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(Supplement 1):S5-5, Oxford University Press, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB Annual Meeting 2021), January 2021 DOI URL BibTeX

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Conference Paper Tail responses facilitate lizard reorientation during directed aerial maneuverability Siddall, R., Ibanez, V., Byrnes, G., Full, R. J., Jusufi, A. In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(Supplement 1):S5-4, Oxford University Press, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB Annual Meeting 2021), January 2021 DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Melt Electrospinning Writing of Magnetic Microrobots Su, Y., Qiu, T., Song, W., Han, X., Sun, M., Wang, Z., Xie, H., Dong, M., Chen, M. Advanced Science, 8(3):2003177, January 2021 DOI URL BibTeX

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Conference Paper Body and tail undulation measured and emulated by soft sensors provides insight on stiffness control through co-contraction Lin, Y., Siddall, R., Banerjee, H., Schwab, F., Jusufi, A. In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(Supplement 1):7-1, Oxford University Press, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB Annual Meeting 2021), January 2021 DOI URL BibTeX

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems Conference Paper Self-righting in squirrels during unexpected falls – towards the crucial function of bushy tails in arboreal mammals Fukushima, T., Siddall, R., Byrnes, G., Nyakatura, J. A., Toussaint, S., Ardian, J. In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(Supplement 1):P11-2, Oxford University Press, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB Annual Meeting 2021), January 2021 DOI URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper Associating functional morphology of the lumbosacral organ and locomotion modalities in avians Kamska, V., Contreras, F. B., Daley, M., Badri-Spröwitz, A. In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(Supplement 1):E437-E437, Oxford University Press, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB Annual Meeting 2021), January 2021 DOI URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper Developing a mechanical model for intraspinal mechanosensing in avians Mo, A., Kamska, V., Contreras, F. B., Daley, M., Badri-Spröwitz, A. In Integrative and Comparative Biology , 61(Supplement 1):E618-E619, Oxford University Press, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB Annual Meeting 2021), January 2021 DOI URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article Do Behavioral Observations Make People Catch the Goal? A Meta-Analysis on Goal Contagion Brohmer, H., Eckerstorfer, L. V., van Aert, R. C., Corcoran, K. International Review of Social Psychology , 34(1):3, Online, January 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper Effects of tendon-network mechanisms on avian terrestrial locomotion Contreras, F. B., Daley, M., Badri-Spröwitz, A. In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(Supplement 1):E89-E90, Oxford University Press, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB Annual Meeting 2021), January 2021 DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article Emergent Goal-Anticipatory Gaze in Infants via Event-Predictive Learning and Inference Gumbsch, C., Adam, M., Elsner, B., Butz, M. V. Cognitive Science, 45(8), Wiley, January 2021 DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Getting in Touch with Children with Autism: Specialist Guidelines for a Touch-Perceiving Robot Burns, R. B., Seifi, H., Lee, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 12(1):115-135, January 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task Bustamante, L., Lieder, F., Musslick, S., Shenhav, A., Cohen, J. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21:453-471, January 2021, Laura Bustamante and Falk Lieder contributed equally to this publication. (Published) Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Tas DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Meta-Learning via Learned Loss Bechtle, S., Molchanov, A., Chebotar, Y., Grefenstette, E., Righetti, L., Sukhatme, G., Meier, F. In 2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), IEEE, January 2021 (Published) BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Patent Method for force inference, method for training a feed-forward neural network, force inference module, and sensor arrangement Sun, H., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. (PCT/EP2021/050231), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Ring 4, January 2021 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Neural Linear Models with Functional Gaussian Process Priors Watson, J., Lin, J. A., Klink, P., Peters, J. 3rd Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference , 3rd Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference (AABI 2021) , 2021 (Published) URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Article Reactive Balance Control for Legged Robots under Visco-Elastic Contacts Flayols, T., Prete, A. D., Khadiv, M., Mansard, N., Righetti, L. Applied Sciences, 11(1), MDPI, 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Patent Sensor Arrangement for Sensing Forces and Methods for Fabricating a Sensor Arrangement and Parts Thereof Sun, H., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. (PCT/EP2021/050230), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Ring 4, January 2021 BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper SMPLpix: Neural Avatars from 3D Human Models Prokudin, S., Black, M. J., Romero, J. In 2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2021), 1809-1818, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2021), January 2021 (Published) project official pdf video preprint code DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article 3D printed personalized magnetic micromachines from patient blood-derived biomaterials Ceylan, H., Dogan, N. O., Yasa, I. C., Musaoglu, M. N., Kulali, Z. U., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 7(36):eabh0273, 2021 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article 3D printing of elastomeric bioinspired complex adhesive microstructures Dayan, C. B., Chun, S., Krishna-Subbaiah, N., Drotlef, D., Akolpoglu, M. B., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 33(40):2103826, 2021 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article 3D-printed multi-stimuli-responsive mobile micromachines Lee, Y., Ceylan, H., Yasa, I. C., Kilic, U., Sitti, M. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(11):12759-12766, 2021 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article 3D‐printed pneumatically controlled soft suction cups for gripping fragile, small, and rough objects Koivikko, A., Drotlef, D., Dayan, C. B., Sariola, V., Sitti, M. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 3(9):2100034, 2021 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article 4D printing of continuous shape representation Ahn, S., Byun, J., Joo, H., Jeong, J., Lee, D., Cho, K. Advanced Materials Technologies, 6(6):2100133, 2021 DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article A Reinforcement Learning Approach to View Planning for Automated Inspection Tasks Landgraf, C., Meese, B., Pabst, M., Martius, G., Huber, M. F. Sensors, 21(6):2030, MDPI, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Robotics Miscellaneous A Robot Cluster for Reproducible Research in Dexterous Manipulation Wüthrich*, M., Widmaier*, F., Bauer*, S., Funk, N., Urain, J., Peters, J., Watson, J., Chen, C., Srinivasan, K., Zhang, J., et al. 2021, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper A System for Traded Control Teleoperation of Manipulation Tasks using Intent Prediction from Hand Gestures Oh, Y., Schäfer, T., Rüther, B., Toussaint, M., Mainprice, J. In 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021), 503-508, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021), 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Robotic Materials Article A Triboelectric-Nanogenerator-Based Gas–Solid Two-Phase Flow Sensor for Pneumatic Conveying System Detecting Wang, Y., Liu, D., Hu, Z., Chen, T., Zhang, Z., Wang, H., Du, T., Zhang, S. L., Zhao, Z., Zhou, T., et al. Advanced Materials Technologies, 6(5):2001270, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Article A diffusion wavelets-based multiscale framework for inverse optimal control of stochastic systems Ha, J., Chae, H., Choi, H. International Journal of Systems Science, 52(11):2228-2240, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Miscellaneous A model of Ponto-Geniculo-Occipital waves supports bidirectional control of cortical plasticity across sleep-stages Shao, K., Villegas, J. F. R., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. 2021 (In preparation) bioRxiv DOI BibTeX

Software Workshop Article A pupillary index of susceptibility to decision biases Eldar, E., Felso, V., Cohen, J. D., Niv, Y. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(5):653-662, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article ABCDP: Approximate Bayesian Computation with Differential Privacy Park, M., Vinaroz, M., Jitkrittum, W. Entropy, 23(8), MDPI, 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Conference Paper ACTrain@School: Can we bring AI to the classroom to foster self-regulated learning? Wirzberger, M. EARLI, 2021 URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Active spheres induce Marangoni flows that drive collective dynamics Wittmann, M., Popescu, M. N., Dominguez, A., Simmchen, J. The European Physical Journal E, 44(2):15, EDP Sciences; Societá Italiana di Fisica; Springer, Les Ulis; Bologna; Heidelberg, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Activity-Induced Collapse and Arrest of Active Polymer Rings Locatelli, E., Bianco, V., Malgaretti, P. Physical Review Letters, 126(9):097801, American Physical Society, Woodbury, N.Y., 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Adaptive self‐sealing suction‐based soft robotic gripper Song, S., Drotlef, D., Son, D., Koivikko, A., Sitti, M. Advanced Science, 8(17):2100641, 2021 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article An Upper Bound of the Bias of Nadaraya-Watson Kernel Regression under Lipschitz Assumptions Tosatto, S., Akrour, R., Peters, J. Stats, 4(1):1-17, 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Analyzing the Direction of Emotional Influence in Nonverbal Dyadic Communication: A Facial-Expression Study Shadaydeh, M., Müller, L., Schneider, D., Thuemmel, M., Kessler, T., Denzler, J. IEEE Access, 9:73780-73790, IEEE, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physics for Inference and Optimization Article Anomalous diffusion, nonergodicity, and ageing for exponentially and logarithmically time-dependent diffusivity: striking differences for massive versus massless particles Cherstvy, A. G., Safdari, H., Metzler, R. Journal of Physics D, 54(19):195401, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Antiresonant driven systems for particle manipulation Carusela, M. F., Malgaretti, P., Rubi, J. M. Physical Review E, 103(6):062102, American Physical Society, Melville, NY, 2021 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Are intrinsic neural timescales related to sensory processing? Evidence from abnormal behavioral states Zilio, F., Gomez-Pilar, J., Cao, S., Zhang, J., Zang, D., Qi, Z., Tan, J., Hiromi, T., Wu, X., Fogel, S., et al. NeuroImage, 226:14, 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Assessing Transferability From Simulation to Reality for Reinforcement Learning Muratore, F., Gienger, M., Peters, J. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 43(4):1172-1183, 2021 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Modern Magnetic Systems Article Bayesian Machine Learning for Efficient Minimization of Defects in ALD Passivation Layers Dogan, G., Demir, S. O., Gutzler, R., Gruhn, H., Dayan, C. B., Sanli, U. T., Silber, C., Culha, U., Sitti, M., Schütz, G., et al. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13(45):54503-54515, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2021 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Bayesian ODE solvers: the maximum a posteriori estimate Tronarp, F., Särkkä, S., Hennig, P. Statistics and Computing, 31(3):23, 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Behavior-dependent critical dynamics in collective states of active particles Loeffler, R. C., Bäuerle, T., Kardar, M., Rohwer, C. M., Bechinger, C. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 134(6):64001, IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2021 DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Article Benchmarking Unsupervised Object Representations for Video Sequences Weis, M., Chitta, K., Sharma, Y., Brendel, W., Bethge, M., Geiger, A., Ecker, A. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 22:61, 2021 (Published) Paper Project page URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article BirdBot: Avian-inspired leg clutching achieves energy-efficient gait with minimalistic control Badri-Spröwitz, A., Sarvestani, A. A., Sitti, M., Daley, M. Science Robotics, 2021 (Accepted) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Body Image Disturbances and Weight Bias After Obesity Surgery: Semantic and Visual Evaluation in a Controlled Study, Findings from the BodyTalk Project Meneguzzo, P., Behrens, S. C., Favaro, A., Tenconi, E., Vindigni, V., Teufel, M., Skoda, E., Lindner, M., Quiros-Ramirez, M. A., Mohler, B., et al. Obesity Surgery, 31(4):1625-1634, 2021 (Published) paper pdf DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Brownian systems perturbed by mild shear: comparing response relations Asheichyk, K., Fuchs, M., Krüger, M. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 33(40):405101, IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2021 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Capacitive energy storage in single-file pores: Exactly solvable models and simulations Verkholyak, T., Kuzmak, A., Kondrat, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 155(17):174112, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2021 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Capillary Ionization and Jumps of Capacitive Energy Stored in Mesopores Cruz, C., Kondrat, S., Lomba, E., Ciach, A. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125(19):10243-10249, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 2021 DOI BibTeX

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