News & Awards

Haptic Intelligence Award 27-10-2025 Postdoc Mayumi Mohan is selected for the MPG career building program Sign Up For Leadership Mayumi Mohan

Haptic Intelligence Award 27-10-2025 Postdoc Rachael L'Orsa is selected for the MPG career building program Sign Up For Your Career Rachael Lorsa

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Award 16-10-2025 Doctoral student Maria-Paola Forte is recognized as a NeurIPS 2025 Top Reviewer She is awarded a non-transferable complimentary registration to attend the conference. Maria-Paola Forte

Haptic Intelligence Award 26-09-2025 Postdoc Andrew Schulz and Fatemeh Farsijani win the top prize for outstanding demo at the Stuttgart open house of the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Andrew K. Schulz Fatemeh Farsijani

Haptic Intelligence Award 11-07-2025 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker wins the Top Work-in-Progress Contributor Award at the 2025 IEEE World Haptics Conference Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 04-07-2025 Postdoc Andrew Schulz wins the prize for best poster at the ELLIS Unit Stuttgart Summer Symposium for his poster "Material Intelligence of Animal Whiskers" Andrew K. Schulz

Haptic Intelligence Award 01-07-2025 Postdoc Giulia Ballardini and Fatemeh Farsijani are accepted to the Touch Sensing and Processing Summer School 2025 Giulia Ballardini Fatemeh Farsijani

Haptic Intelligence Award 27-06-2025 Doctoral students Maria-Paola Forte and Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo receive honorable mentions for the 2025 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize Maria-Paola Forte Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo

Haptic Intelligence Award 04-06-2025 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker wins the MPI-IS Community Award 2025 at the institute's retreat Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 03-03-2025 Postdoc Yarden Sharon wins a 6,000 EUR stipend from the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (CNV) Foundation Yarden Sharon

Haptic Intelligence Award 09-10-2024 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

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

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

Haptic Intelligence Award 17-06-2024 Postdoc Mayumi Mohan receives the prize for best presentation at the ELLIS Unit Stuttgart Summer Symposium for her talk "Crafting Motion: From Robotic to Expressive" Mayumi Mohan

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

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

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

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

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

Haptic Intelligence Award 01-10-2023 Arnaud Allemang-{-}Trivalle is selected for the ICMI Doctoral Consortium Arnaud Allemang--Trivalle

Haptic Intelligence Award 15-09-2023 Iris Andrussow wins the top prize for best demonstration at the Tübingen open house at the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Iris Andrussow

Haptic Intelligence Award 13-09-2023 Doctoral student Rachael Bevill Burns wins an honorable mention for the prize for best demonstration at the Stuttgart open house at the 2023 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Rachael Burns

Haptic Intelligence Award 13-09-2023 Yijie Gong and Guido Caccianiga win the top prize for best demonstration at the Stuttgart open house at the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Yijie Gong Guido Caccianiga

Haptic Intelligence Award 05-09-2023 Part-time postdoc David Gueorguiev wins an ERC Starting Grant at CNRS in Paris David Gueorguiev

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

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

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

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

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

Haptic Intelligence Award 25-10-2022 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is selected as an honoree of 35 Women in Robotics Engineering and Science (WiRES), announced at IROS Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 26-07-2022 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker participates in the Berlin Summit on Robotics 2022 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 29-06-2022 Guido Caccianiga and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker are best poster finalists at the Hamlyn Symposium Guido Caccianiga

Haptic Intelligence Award 25-05-2022 Alexis E. Block, Hasti Seifi, Sammy Christen, Bernard Javot, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker win Best Demo at EuroHaptics 2022 for their demonstration of "HuggieBot: a human-sized haptic interface" Alexis Block Hasti Seifi Bernard Javot Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 22-03-2022 Ravali Gourishetti and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker win an honorable mention for their IEEE Transactions on Haptics short paper at the IEEE Haptics Symposium Ravali Gourishetti Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 15-03-2022 Former doctoral student Alexis E. Block is selected to receive the Max Planck Society's Otto Hahn Medal for her doctoral dissertation; she is the first doctoral student from MPI-IS to win this prize from the new research direction of intelligent systems Alexis Block

Haptic Intelligence Award 10-03-2022 Doctoral student Mayumi Mohan wins third place at the HRI 2022 Student Elevator Pitch Competition Mayumi Mohan

Haptic Intelligence Award 23-11-2021 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker has been named an IEEE Fellow effective January 1, 2022, for contributions to interactive haptic systems and robotic touch perception Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 22-07-2021 Ph.D. student Alexis E. Block is selected as a 2021 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) to support her postdoctoral research with Veronica Santos at UCLA in the USA Alexis Block

Haptic Intelligence Award 10-07-2021 Postdoc Yitian Shao receives a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship to support his postdoctoral research in the HI Department Yitian Shao

Haptic Intelligence Award 09-07-2021 Ph.D. student Saekwang Nam and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker jointly win Honorable Mention for their IEEE Transactions on Haptics short paper at the 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference Saekwang Nam Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Haptic Intelligence Award 09-07-2021 Postdoc Yitian Shao wins the 2020 EuroHaptics Society prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of haptics; he earned his doctorate with Yon Visell at UCSB in the USA Yitian Shao

Haptic Intelligence Award 18-06-2021 Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins Honorable Mention for Best Research Lightning Talk at the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp Rachael Burns

Haptic Intelligence Award 07-04-2021 Ph.D. students Alexis E. Block, Rachael Bevill Burns, and Mayumi Mohan are selected to participate in the Gordon Research Seminar on the Future of Robotics: Possibilities for Transforming Healthcare Alexis Block Rachael Burns Mayumi Mohan

Haptic Intelligence Award 11-03-2021 Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins first place at the HRI 2021 Student Elevator Pitch Competition Rachael Burns

Haptic Intelligence Award 01-01-2021 Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns is selected to participate in the HRI Pioneers 2021 Workshop Rachael Burns

Haptic Intelligence Award 29-11-2020 Ph.D. student Saekwang Nam receives a KIST Europe Scholarship Award from the Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in Germany Saekwang Nam