News & Awards
Haptic Intelligence
News
09-02-2018
NSERC Postdoc Fellowship for Hasti Seifi
Dr. Hasti Seifi receives a prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the country´s federal funding agency for university-based research and student training in natural sciences and engineering.
Hasti Seifi
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Haptic Intelligence
News
11-12-2017
Feeling the Virtual World
Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker on the Future of Haptics
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Haptic Intelligence
News
15-09-2017
A Balanced Equation - Women in STEM Roadtrip
Breakthroughs come from breaking down barriers.
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Haptic Intelligence
News
28-07-2017
Can You Feel Me Now? The Science Of Digitizing Touch
Scientists are developing tools that allow you to digitally feel textures like wood and cotton.
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Haptic Intelligence
News
28-06-2017
Is Clinical Virtual Reality the Future of Therapy?
Out with the couch, on with the headset.
As the meteors came down from the sky, my heart thudded in my chest. There was only one way I could save the town below: Reach out into the air, make a fist, and in doing so, set off an explosion. And then another. And another. How else can one be expected to defend a village?
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Betty Mohler
Haptic Intelligence
News
20-05-2017
In Zukunft mit Gefühl
Roboter können erstaunliche Dinge. Doch unser Tastsinn ist ihnen noch überlegen. Warum sich das bald ändern könnte – und was das heißt
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Haptic Intelligence
News
20-04-2017
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker joins the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems as a new director
The Max Planck Society has appointed Katherine J. Kuchenbecker as a director at the Stuttgart location of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. She will lead the newly established "Haptic Intelligence" department, which focuses on incorporating the sense of touch into robotic systems.
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Haptic Intelligence
News
02-01-2017
Hasti Seifi wins EuroHaptics Society prize for best Ph.D. thesis
Dr. Hasti Seifi is the winner of the 2017 EuroHaptics Society award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of haptics. While Ms. Seifi is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart, the award honors research she conducted at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada, where she completed her doctorate in Computer Science under the supervision of Professor Karon E. MacLean.
Hasti Seifi
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
