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Social Foundations of Computation News 12-05-2026 Moritz Hardt has contributed to the Legal Agent Benchmark launched by Harvey Moritz Hardt, who is a Director at our Tübingen site, has contributed to the Legal Agent Benchmark, an open benchmark for measuring AI agents on long-horizon legal work, launched by <a href="https://www.harvey.ai/">Harvey</a>. Moritz Hardt
Mechanics for Intelligent Structures News 12-05-2026 Renate Sachse awarded Elisabeth Schiemann Kolleg fellowship Max Planck Society mentoring network for women in the natural sciences Renate Sachse
Robotic Composites and Compositions News 07-05-2026 RoCoCo at RoboSoft 2026: Talks, Art, and Interactive Demonstrations Buse Aktaş
Robotic Composites and Compositions News 04-05-2026 RoCoCo Welcomes German–Austrian Physics Tournament Participants with Research Lab Demonstrations Ahmed Amr Hafez
Empirische Inferenz News 20-04-2026 Siyuan Guo one of Forbes` 30 Under 30 in Science Siyuan Guo
News 07-04-2026 A network for all neurodivergent employees of the Max Planck Society This article is based on an interview with Andrew K. Schulz, an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow and postdoctoral researcher in the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany, and an Associated Postdoc in the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS). Andrew was formally diagnosed with Autism during graduate school and has written about challenges of being Autistic in Germany in eLife. Rut Martinez Miras Andrew K. Schulz
News 25-03-2026 Paul Wrede selected as 2026 Schmidt Science Fellow Paul Wrede, CLS doctoral student at the professorship for biomedical imaging led by Prof. Daniel Razansky, ETHZ, has been awarded the 2026 Schmidt Science Fellowship. His goal is to explore how artificial cells can be developed to better communicate with the body and to understand fundamental biological processes.
News 24-03-2026 A record-setting 10th recruitment round for our IMPRS-IS doctoral program! 85+ new scholars to join! IMPRS-IS, our institute's main doctoral program, is celebrating a yet another record year! We have recruited more than 85 doctoral researchers for our 10th recruitment round! We also achieved an exceptional offer acceptance rate of over 90%, highlighting the program's strong global appeal among top candidates. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Leila Masri Sara Sorce Pannapa Huayhongtong
Empirical Inference Robotic Materials News 24-03-2026 Annalena Kofler and Daniela Macari selected to join the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting The two researchers from the Empirical Inference and Robotic Materials Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems are among over 600 young scientists from across the world who are given the opportunity to participate in a week of scientific exchange with some of the world’s greatest minds. Annalena Kofler Daniela Macari
News 17-03-2026 MPI-IS Researchers Participate in the 2nd German Robotics Conference (GRC 2026) The Robotics Institute Germany (RIG) hosted the second German Robotics Conference (GRC) in Cologne from March 11 to 13, 2026. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural meeting in Nuremberg, the conference brought together over 800 participants, including leading researchers, industry representatives, and policymakers working at the forefront of AI-powered robotics in Germany.
Biomimetic Materials and Machines News 09-03-2026 Florian Hartmann receives scholarship from Daimler and Benz Foundation Florian Hartmann
News 05-03-2026 Katia Bertoldi from Harvard University holds Max Planck Lecture 2026 Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Christoph Keplinger
Empirical Inference News 17-02-2026 Bernhard Schölkopf elected for UN AI Scientific Panel MPI-IS Director one of 40 members of the newly established Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. Bernhard Schölkopf
Physical Intelligence News 05-02-2026 OptoMaG: An Optoacoustically Augmented Magnetic Guidewire for Radiation-Free Image-Guided Therapies Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, ETH Zurich, Southeast University, and Koç University have developed an optoacoustically augmented magnetic guidewire (OptoMaG), that integrates optoacoustic imaging, magnetic navigation, and therapeutic functionality into a single flexible guidewire, enabling radiation-free, real-time navigation in complex vascular environments. Unlike conventional X-ray–guided interventions, OptoMaG provides high-contrast three-dimensional visualization in deep tissue and contact-free magnetic steering. Fan Wang Xianqiang Bao Erdost Yildiz Yan Yu Ren Hao Soon Jelena Zinnanti Metin Sitti Wenbin Kang Devin Sheehan
Mechanics for Intelligent Structures News 07-01-2026 Renate Sachse joins MPI-IS as new group leader She will lead the independent Cyber Valley Research Group "Mechanics for Intelligent Structures" at the Stuttgart site of our institute. Renate Sachse
News 17-12-2025 ELLIS Institute Tübingen joins CLS as Associated Partner It’s official: The ELLIS Institute Tübingen is now an <strong>Associated Partner</strong> of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS)!
News 26-11-2025 RIGI Continues to Grow Our Stuttgart-based internship program RIGI attracted more than 900 applications for internship positions at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems during its 2026 recruitment round. Buse Aktaş Leila Masri Birgül Akolpoglu
CELLnROLL News 25-11-2025 CELLnROLL receives funding from EXIST Research Transfer Start-up develops automated cellular diagnostic devices for detecting diseases such as cancer Alp Can Karacakol Erdost Yildiz Ugur Bozüyük Sarah Scatigna
News 17-11-2025 Ausgezeichnete Schülerinnen und Schüler beim Bundeswettbewerb Künstliche Intelligenz Schlaganfälle schneller diagnostizieren, die Blackbox von Sprachmodellen öffnen oder Blutzuckerwerte schmerzfrei bestimmen – Gewinnerteams setzen mit KI-Projekten zukunftsweisende Impulse
News 15-11-2025 More room for world class research New building Cyber Valley I handed over to the University of Tübingen Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Science Petra Olschowski and Minister of Finance Dr. Danyal Bayaz handed over the new Cyber Valley I building to the University of Tübingen on Friday, 14 November. Max Planck research groups will also be based there.
News 13-11-2025 Agile, lightweight, efficient, intelligent: Researchers are developing next-generation robots New Institute for Adaptive Mechanical Systems (IAMS) is located at MPI-IS and focuses on new walking robots and soft robotics. C. David Remy Philipp Rothemund
Neuromechanics of Movement News 05-11-2025 Janneke Schwaner and Philipp Rothemund awarded prestigious grant through the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities The scientists receive funding for 'Tails in Motion' project The project is a step forward in the fundamental understanding of how muscles and tendons work together to control movement. The cutting-edge simulations and robotic systems developed may revolutionize the design of agile and maneuverable robots, inspiring a new generation of high-performing bioinspired robots. Philipp Rothemund Janneke Schwaner
Embodied Social Interaction News 01-11-2025 Philipp Müller starts as Cyber Valley Max Planck Independent Research Group Leader Group named "Embodied Social Interaction" is located at MPI-IS Stuttgart Philipp Müller
News 29-10-2025 IMPRS-IS Now Accepting Applications for 2026! We invite outstanding applicants to join its 10th generation of doctoral researchers in 2026. Apply by November 16, 2025, to pursue cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, robotics, and related fields.
Social Foundations of Computation News 23-10-2025 Vivian Nastl and Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo receive 2025 Google Ph.D. Fellowship Program supports exceptional graduate students working on innovative research in computer science and related fields Vivian Nastl Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo Moritz Hardt Bernhard Schölkopf
News 21-10-2025 Principal Investigator Positions (m/f/d) as Hector Endowed Fellows of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen The ELLIS Institute in Tübingen, Germany, invites applications for Principal Investigator (m/f/d) positions as Hector Endowed Fellows of the ELLIS Institute Tübingen.
News 15-10-2025 Antonia Georgopoulou starts as Cyber Valley Max Planck Independent Research Group Leader Group named "Cyborg Robotics and Intelligent Sensing" or CyRIS Antonia Georgopoulou
Empirical Inference News 09-10-2025 Siyuan Guo receives the MIT EECS Rising Star award Her research focuses on understanding learning and intelligence from first principles. Siyuan Guo
News 08-10-2025 Jonas Geiping awarded the German Pattern Recognition Award 2025 Geiping was awarded the German Pattern Recognition Award 2025 for his outstanding scientific contributions in the area of Understanding of Safety, Security, and Efficiency in Modern Pattern Recognition.
Cooperative Machine Intelligence for People-Aligned Safe Systems News 01-10-2025 Sahar Abdelnabi starts her position as new Group Leader She joins the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as PI and Hector Endowed Fellow and has a co-affiliation with the MPI-IS and the Tübingen AI Center as Independent Research Group Leader. Sahar Abdelnabi
Haptic Intelligence Organizational Leadership and Diversity News 30-09-2025 Carl Schneider Foundation supports innovative technology at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart Funding enables purchase of a functional near-infrared spectroscopy system Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Matthias Tröndle Ksenia Keplinger
News 24-09-2025 New Max Planck Artificial Intelligence Network Starts Call for Applications for its Ph.D. Program Join our new Max Planck Artificial Intelligence Network Ph.D. program The Max Planck Artificial Intelligence Network is a Ph.D. Program that provides doctoral researchers with fully funded Ph.D. fellowships and a pool of outstanding faculty comprising directors and independent research group leaders from across the Max Planck Society. Bernhard Schölkopf Matthias Tröndle Emna Eitel
Robotic Composites and Compositions News 23-09-2025 How We Touch Study captures how humans touch unfamiliar objects, offers potential lessons for human-robot interaction Buse Aktaş
News 15-09-2025 Apply until November 5, 2025 for a PhD in CLS Apply to do your Ph.D. in our research center between ETH Zurich, Switzerland and the Max Planck Society, primarily the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany.
Empirical Inference News 19-08-2025 Six new members elected to the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz Bernhard Schölkopf was elected as a corresponding member.
Physical Intelligence News 29-07-2025 EndoSurge wins 3rd place in Science2Start competition Max Planck Start-up develops MRI-compatible catheter system to treat cardiovascular disease Martin Phelan Siddhant Prakash
News 29-07-2025 Max Planck Scientists at Christopher Street Day in Stuttgart A Grassroots Celebration of Pride and Inclusion Vani Sundaram Rut Martinez Miras Antonio Orvieto Buse Aktaş
News 24-07-2025 MPG Diversity Excellence Fund Award supports RIGI Internship The MPI-IS has secured funding from the Max Planck Society's Diversity Excellence Fund for their Robotics Institute Germany Internship program. Buse Aktaş Birgül Akolpoglu Leila Masri Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Robotic Materials News 21-07-2025 Humboldt Fellow from the US conducts research in robotics to one day harvest energy from ocean waves The Humboldt Research Fellowship Program for Postdocs fosters partnerships between international researchers and leading German research institutions. Linda Behringer Lawrence Smith Christoph Keplinger
Empirical Inference News 15-07-2025 Zhijing Jin receives honorable mention for the Wilhelm Schickard Dissertation Award The Wilhelm Schickard Dissertation Award recognizes the most outstanding dissertation in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tübingen, celebrating innovative and impactful research embodying Schickard’s spirit of intellectual curiosity and technological advancement. Zhijing Jin Bernhard Schölkopf
Social Foundations of Computation News 14-07-2025 Paper co-authored by Moritz Hardt receives 10-Year Test of Time Award at ACM STOC 2025 "Preserving Statistical Validity in Adaptive Data Analysis" published in 2015 is co-authored by Cynthia Dwork, Vitaly Feldman, Moritz Hardt, Toniann Pitassi, Omer Reingold, Aaron Roth. Moritz Hardt
News 14-07-2025 Shiwei Liu starts his position as new Group Leader He joins the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as PI and Hector Endowed Fellow and has a co-affiliation with the MPI-IS and the Tübingen AI Center as Independent Research Group Leader. Shiwei Liu
News 10-07-2025 MPI-IS researchers with 11 papers at upcoming ICML The International Conference on Machine Learning is one of the world's leading conferences in the field of machine learning. Linda Behringer
News 07-07-2025 Vivian Nastl wins 2025 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize Melis Ilayda Bal, Maria-Paola Forte, and Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo receive honorable mentions Melis Ilayda Bal Maria-Paola Forte Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo Vivian Nastl Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Moritz Hardt
News 28-05-2025 T. Konstantin Rusch starts his position as new Group Leader He will join the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as PI and Hector Endowed Fellow and have a co-affiliation with the MPI-IS and the Tübingen AI Center as Independent Research Group Leader.
News 22-05-2025 Double excellence Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems involved in two further funded Clusters of Excellence at the University of Stuttgart and the University of Tübingen MPI-IS was involved in three applications, of which two were selected for further funding as Clusters of Excellence. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Michael J. Black Moritz Hardt Bernhard Schölkopf
Robotic Composites and Compositions News 08-05-2025 First team members join the new Robotic Composites and Compositions Group Group leader Buse Aktaş joins the Elisabeth Schiemann Kolleg as a fellow Buse Aktaş
Computational Applied Mathematics & AI Lab News 02-05-2025 Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics from the brain Research co-authored by our new group leader Konstantin Rusch Text by
Neuromechanics of Movement News 28-04-2025 Janneke Schwaner starts Neuromechanics of Movement research group From May 1, 2025, Janneke Schwaner will lead the Neuromechanics of Movement research group at the Stuttgart site of the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems. Janneke presented her research at the 2024 Scientific Symposium and thereafter received the call to join the Institute. Janneke Schwaner
Social Foundations of Computation News 24-04-2025 Florian Dorner, Vivian Nastl, Moritz Hardt: ICLR 2025 Oral with the paper "Limits to Scalable Evaluation at the Frontier: LLM as Judge Won’t Beat Twice the Data"