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-<HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2017-09-24</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="http://h2020sarafun.eu/iros2017_hr/">IEEE/RSJ IROS
+<HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2024-04-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Möglichkeiten der KI bei klangrelevanten Arbeitsschritten
+    im Fertigungsprozess</i> at Digitalwissenschaftlicher Bildungsnachmittag, Musikinstrumentenbauschule Mittenwald.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-26</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://airov.at/">AIRoV – The First Austrian
+    Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 26.–27.3.2024</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-21</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber, Christopher Kelter, and Patrick Hofmann teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-14</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>The IMAGINE Project: Robot Intuition and Understanding for
+    Disassembly</i> at <a href="https://reconcycle.eu/erf2024/">Adaptive Robotics for
+    Recycling of Electronic Devices</a>, Rimini, Italy. (Workshop at the European Robotics Forum)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-14</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://reconcycle.eu/erf2024/">Adaptive Robotics for
+    Recycling of Electronic Devices</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-01-16</td><td>Samuele Tosatto gives an invited talk <i>Beyond Monte Carlo Off-Policy Policy Gradient</i> at <a href="https://www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/conferences/rl-2024">Mini-Workshop on Reinforcement Learning</a>, University of Mannheim.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-12-20</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber, Christopher Kelter, and Patrick Hofmann teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für die MS Schulzentrum Hall , Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-12-19</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber, Christopher Kelter, and Patrick Hofmann teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für die MS Matrei , Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-12-13</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited talk <i>From Bots to Bytes: Teaching with Interactive Machines and Effective Software Practices</i> at Vortrag f. das Akademische Gymnasium Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-12-07</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber, Christopher Kelter, and Patrick Hofmann teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für die MS Hötting West , Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-12-01</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.mediengipfel.at/at/archiv/veranstaltungen/2023.php">15.
+    Europäischer Mediengipfel</a>, Lech/Arlberg. (Wissenschaftsforum zum Thema „Künstliche Intelligenz – Fluch oder Segen für Politik, Medien, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft?)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-11-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Demystifying ChatGPT</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/betriebswirtschaft/dlc/">UIBK
+    Digital Leadership Club</a>, Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-11-13</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>ChatGPT: Wie es (nicht) funktioniert</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/disc/events/discussion-piater-rath/">Wie
+    „denkt“ ChatGPT? Begegnungen mit einer Künstlichen
+    Intelligenz</a>, Stadtbibliothek Innsbruck. (Öffentliche Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe DiSCussion des Digital Science Centers, organisiert gemeinsam mit dem Vizerektorat für Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-11-11</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Wie kann die Medizin von der Künstlichen Intelligenz
+    profitieren?</i> at <a href="https://www.dfpkalender.at/public-dfpkalender/viewEvent.jsf?id=784672">Winterfortbildung der Universitätsklinik Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe Innsbruck</a>, Wattens.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-10-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Ramping Up Robot Intelligence</i> at <a href="https://summer2023.reconcycle.eu/">ReconCycle Summer
+    School 2023</a>, Cala Ratjada, Mallorca, Spain.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-10-16</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited talk <i>Softwaremanagement in der Informatiklehre: Von Praktische Tools, Environment Setups bis hin zu CI/CD-Pipelines</i> at ARGE Informatiklehrer•innen, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-09-06</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>High-Level AI For Service Robotics</i> at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gmarobotics_gmar-summer-school-fhtw-activity-7076785981302939648-mdTV/">GMAR Robotics Summer School 2023</a>, FH Technikum Wien.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-08-15</td><td>Samuele Tosatto contributes a talk <i>A Continuous-Time Option Framework</i> at <a href="https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Workshops/IWIALS2023">International Workshop of Intelligent Autonomous Learning Systems 2023</a>, Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria. (Research talk about arXiv:2212.04407)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-07-27</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Wie generiert ChatGPT seine Antworten, und warum sollten
+    wir einen kritischen Blick auf diese bewahren?</i> at <a href="https://www.kreativland.tirol/events/chatgpt-in-der-unternehmenskommunikation/">ChatGPT
+    in der Unternehmenskommunikation</a>, Universität Innsbruck. (Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung des Public Relations Verbands Austria und digital.tirol)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-07-05</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der KI in der Robotik</i> at <a href="https://bodenseegespraeche.org/2023-1.html">Bodenseegespräche
+</a>, Hard bei Bregenz, Austria. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem31', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem31Abstract" style="display:none">Die künstliche Intelligenz hat in letzter Zeit gewaltige
+    Fortschritte gemacht. Sie bietet immer neue Möglichkeiten in der
+    Analyse und Generierung natürlicher Sprache und von Bildern und
+    Video, in der Robotik, sowie in ihren Kombinationen. Im ersten
+    Teil des Vortrags werde ich informell Kerntechnologien aktueller
+    KI vorstellen, um ein Gespür dafür zu vermitteln, wofür sich KI in
+    der Robotik mittelfristig einsetzen lassen wird. Anschließend
+    werde ich Grenzen der aktuellen KI charakterisieren und einige
+    Beispiele aus der Forschung beschreiben, die darauf abzielen,
+    diese Grenzen zu erweitern.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-06-05</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Generative Künstliche Intelligenz</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/foerderkreis1669/aktuelles/forum-forderkreis-1669/">Forum Förderkreis 1669</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-05-29</td><td>Samuele Tosatto contributes a talk <i>Temporal Abstraction via Variable Decision Frequency</i> at <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/rap4robots">Workshop on effective Reresentations, Abstractions, and Priors for Robot Learning (ICRA Workshop)</a>, ExCeL London. (Research talk about arXiv:2212.04407)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-05-25</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz &amp; ChatGPT: Möglichkeiten und
+    Grenzen in der Hochschullehre</i> at <a href="https://www.i-med.ac.at/itservices/aktuell/ki-chatgpt.pdf">Digitales
+    Lehren und Lernen</a>, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck und online. (Informations- und Diskussionsveranstaltung für Bedienstete und Studierende)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-05-23</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Robot Learning – von Imitation bis Kognition</i> at <a href="https://www.ove.at/ove-academy/seminare/detail/ove-it-kolloquium-maschinelles-lernen-aktuelle-entwicklungen-und-moegliche-anwendungsbereiche/">OVE-IT-Kolloquium:
+    Maschinelles Lernen</a>, OVE, Wien, und online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem35', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem35Abstract" style="display:none">Maschinelles Lernen hat vielfältige Anwendungen in der
+    Robotik. Roboter können lernen, Trajektorien abzufahren, auf
+    Effekte und äußere Ereignisse zu reagieren, Objekte zu erkennen
+    und zu manipulieren. In die Praxis halten diese Entwicklungen
+    jedoch nur langsam Einzug. Warum ist das so? Ich argumentiere,
+    dass Robotern - und heutigen KI-Systemen allgemein - echtes
+    Verständnis für ihre Umgebung fehlt, mit der sie über
+    Datenaustausch interagieren. Dies werde ich anhand einiger
+    Beispiele aus unserer Forschung illustrieren, mit der wir
+    versuchen, das Verständnis von Robotern für ihre Umgebung zu
+    erhöhen.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-05-11</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber, Patrick Hofmann, and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>STAIR Lab Workshop: Programmieren eines autonomen Roboters anhand einer selbstentwickelten KI</i> at INNALP Workshop für die NMS Hötting West, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-05-04</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/bibliothek2023/programm/abstracts-donnerstag-nachmittag/bibliotheken-und-ki.html">Künstliche
+    Intelligenz (KI) in Bibliotheken</a>, Congress Innsbruck. (Podiumsdiskussion am 1. Österreichischen Bibliothekskongress 2023)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-03-29</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber, Christopher Kelter, and Patrick Hofmann teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-02-13</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Making Robots Learn to Perceive and Act With Understanding</i> at Guest talk hosted by Gerald Steinbauer, TU Graz. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem39', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem39Abstract" style="display:none">The title of this talk is the motto of the Intelligent
+    and Interactive Systems group at the University of Innsbruck. Our
+    long-term objective is to improve abstraction, generalization,
+    robustness, and ultimately explainability of robot perception and
+    action. Motivated by shortcomings of current machine-learning
+    methods, I will discuss examples of our recent work on learning
+    visual relational concepts, extrapolation of learned movements
+    beyond the training distribution, and learning of symbolic
+    concepts and rules from sensorimotor experience. As an added
+    bonus, I will show how to train neural networks of a thousand
+    layers without skip connections, batch normalization, dropout, or
+    any other architectural tweaks, using our so-called batch-entropy
+    regularization.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-01-21</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://www.diepresse.com/6240937/auch-ein-roboter-muss-hoeflich-sein">Auch ein Roboter muss höflich sein</a>. (Interview by Die Presse (in German))</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-12-19</td><td>Marko Zaric and Simon Haller-Seeber teach a tutorial <i>Einführung in die Programmierung mit dem BBC Micro:Bit</i> at Campustag NMS Hötting, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-12-06</td><td>Justus Piater, Matteo Saveriano, Hector Villeda, and Erwan Renaudo appear in the media: <a href="https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/ZuFo/periodical/pageview/8251030">Schritt
+    für Schritt</a>. (Zukunft Forschung – Das Magazin für Wissenschaft und Forschung der Universität Innsbruck 2 (2022)) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem42', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem42Abstract" style="display:none">Justus Piater lehrt seinem Roboter das Lernen – mit
+    Erfolg. So lernte der Roboter, wie sich  Objekte bewegen, wenn er
+    sie anschubst, und wie er diese stapeln kann. Nun soll er sich aus
+    gelernten Bewegungen neue erschließen und mit dem Menschen
+    interagieren lernen.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-12-01</td><td>Justus Piater, Erwan Renaudo, and Matthias Schurz appear in the media: <a href="https://innovationorigins.com/de/mithilfe-der-psychologie-forscher-wollen-robotern-soziale-faehigkeiten-beibringen/">Mithilfe
+    der Psychologie: Forscher wollen Robotern soziale Fähigkeiten
+    beibringen</a>. (Interview by Innovation Origins) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem43', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem43Abstract" style="display:none">Nachhaltigkeit - Wenn Roboter in menschlichen Umgebungen
+    arbeiten, dann brauchen Sie soziale Fähigkeiten. Forscher wollen
+    es ihnen beibringen und dabei das tatsächliche Lernverhalten von
+    Menschen nachbilden.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-11-17</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited talk <i>STAIR-Lab Workshop One and Outlook</i> at <a href="https://innalp.at/">INNALP Education Hub Beiratssitzung</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-11-08</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Robots, Understanding, and Causality</i> at Guest talk hosted by Georg Martius, Autonomous Learning
+    group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem46', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem46Abstract" style="display:none">The motto of my research group is &quot;Making robots learn
+    to perceive and act with understanding&quot;. Our long-term objective
+    is to improve abstraction, generalization, robustness, and
+    ultimately explainability of robot perception and action. I will
+    first present three of our recent lines of research: continual
+    learning from demonstration, how to train 1000-layer neural
+    networks with just a simple regularizer, and autonomous learning
+    of symbolic concepts and rules from sensorimotor interaction. In
+    the second half of my talk I will argue that &quot;understanding&quot; is a
+    meaningful notion in AI that goes beyond prediction and control,
+    and hypothesize that causlity theory is adequate to formalize it.
+    My goal is to launch a discussion on how to leverage causality
+    theory to raise the level of understanding that robots can acquire
+    by interacting with their environment.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-10-14</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Making robots learn to perceive and act with
+    understanding</i> at <a href="https://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/dii/114165/making-robots-learn-to-perceive-and-act-with-understanding">Department of Industrial Engineering Seminar</a>, University of Trento and online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem47', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem47Abstract" style="display:none">The title of the talk is the motto of the Intelligent
+    and Interactive Systems group at the University of Innsbruck. The
+    long-term objective of the group is to improve abstraction,
+    generalization, robustness, and ultimately explainability of robot
+    perception and action. Motivated by shortcomings of current
+    machine-learning methods, Prof. Piater will discuss examples of
+    the group's recent work on learning visual relational concepts,
+    extrapolation of learned movements beyond the training
+    distribution, and learning of symbolic concepts and rules from
+    sensorimotor experience. As an added bonus, Prof. Piater will show
+    how to train neural networks of many hundreds of layers without
+    skip connections, batch normalization, dropout, or any other
+    architectural tweaks, using the so-called batch-entropy
+    regularization.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-07-21</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://www.makademia.at/es-regnet-weil-menschen-die-schirme-aufspannen-warum-wir-noch-keine-allzu-grosse-angst-vor-kuenstlicher-intelligenz-haben-muessen/">„Es
+    regnet, weil Menschen die Schirme aufspannen“ – warum wir (noch)
+    keine allzu große Angst vor künstlicher Intelligenz haben
+    müssen</a>. (Makademia - Forschung einfach geknackt)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-06-14</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://roboticsworkshop.at/">Austrian Robotics
+    Workshop</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-06-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber, Patrick Hofmann, and Thomas Gatterer teach a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter, was macht eine KI? Entwickle deine eigene KI und programmiere unsere Minibots</i> at Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-06-02</td><td>Erwan Renaudo contributes a talk <i>Deep Learning for Fast Segmentation of E-waste Devices’
+    Inner Parts in a Recycling Scenario</i> at <a href="https://icprai2022.sciencesconf.org/">ICPRAI 2022</a>, Paris/online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem52', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem52Abstract" style="display:none">Recycling obsolete electronic devices (E-waste) is a
+    dangerous task for human workers. Automated E-waste recycling
+    is an area of great interest but challenging for current robotic
+    applications. We focus on the problem of segmenting inner parts
+    of E-waste devices into manipulable elements. First, we extend
+    a dataset of hard-drive disk (HDD) components with labelled
+    occluded and non-occluded points of view of the parts, in order
+    to increase the diversity and the quality of the learning data
+    with different angles. We then perform an extensive evaluation
+    with three different state-of-the-art models, namely CenterMask,
+    BlendMask and SOLOv2 (including variants) and two types of
+    metrics: the average precision as well as the frame rate. Our
+    results show that instance segmentation using state-of-the-art
+    deep learning methods can precisely detect complex shapes along
+    with their boundaries, as well as being suited for fast tracking of
+    parts in a robotic recycling system. (Rojas et  al. 2022)
+    </blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-05-20</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://radiothek.orf.at/podcasts/tir/derwoche/derwoche-maschinenzukunft">ORF
+    Tirol Podcast (in German)</a>. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem53', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem53Abstract" style="display:none">Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist bereits heute ein
+    täglicher Begleiter, doch vom universellen Haushaltsroboter sind
+    wir noch weit entfernt. Automatisierte Systeme werden zwar Jobs
+    übernehmen, Maschinen werden aber noch lange nicht die
+    Weltherrschaft an sich reißen, falls überhaupt. Zur Langen Nacht
+    der Forschung spricht Martin Kubin im #derWoche „Maschinenzukunft“
+    mit Prof. Justus Piater vom Institut für Informatik über Chancen
+    und Gefahren von KI. Er weiß auch, warum KI etwa die Justiz
+    unterstützen kann, aber ein KI-Richter niemals objektiv urteilen
+    könnte.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-05-17</td><td>Erwan Renaudo gives an invited talk <i>A Brief tour of autonomous robots' &quot;Cognition&quot;</i> at <a href="https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/ag-mueller/aktuelles/meldungsdetails-ag-mueller/2022/5/17/event/46426-Creating-Agency-and-Cogn/tx_cal_phpicalendar/">Creating Agency and Cognition in Automated Systems: What can we learn from the Octopus? International Hybrid Workshop</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem55', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem55Abstract" style="display:none">In the design of &quot;Cognitive Robots&quot; software architectures,
+    researchers had to face many organizational problems due to
+    the particular nature of robots. Not only should they manage
+    to achieve complex tasks with long-term goals, but they must
+    also be reactive to their surroundings to preserve their environment.
+    We will go over several layered control paradigms developed over
+    the history of robotics and see how these can relate to the
+    knowledge about the Octopus' brain organization, and discuss
+    how the Octopus itself can inspire cognitive robotic research.
+    </blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-05-11</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Robots That Learn Like Humans?</i> at <a href="https://pintofscience.at/events/innsbruck">Pint of
+    Science</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem56', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem56Abstract" style="display:none">Wouldn't it be great to have a helper robot that we can
+    task with our annoying chores? How would we teach the robot to
+    perform these tasks? Can we build such robots by equipping them
+    with artificial intelligence? We will discuss how human and
+    machine learning differ and how this impacts what skills,
+    including for communication, our helper robot will be able to
+    learn.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-04-28</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber contributes a talk <i>STAIR Learning Lab</i> at <a href="http://rie.science">Robotics in Education 2022</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2022-02-19</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Learning as a Creative Process in Humans and
+    Machines</i> at <a href="https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/ag-mueller/online-workshop-on-agency-life-and-creativity/">Workshop
+    on “Agency, Life, and Creativity”</a>, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem58', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem58Abstract" style="display:none">Humans constantly engage in creative activity such as
+    finding explanations, improving technology, or solving novel
+    problems in everyday life. Even imitating other humans, e.g. while
+    learning a new skill, is creative in that the imitator has to
+    infer the conceptual structure underlying the observed
+    manifestation and to regenerate the latter from the former. In
+    contrast, current AI-enabled agents are unable to generate and
+    draw upon such conceptual structures. Their learning is mostly
+    driven by statistics, and any ability to produce novelty is
+    largely limited to trial and error. I will try to characterize
+    this fundamental difference between learning in human and
+    artificial agents, and will discuss possible technological
+    approaches that might help close this gap.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-11-24</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elsa-innsbruck_letzte-woche-fand-zum-elsa-day-am-24112021-activity-6871397038093869057-16-7">Privacy
+    in the Digital Age</a>, online. (Organized by ELSA Innsbruck)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-10-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Robotik und KI in der Medizin – nur
+    Bedarfserweckung?</i> at <a href="https://medical-update-hall.com/veranstaltungen/">Medical
+    Update Hall 2021 – Fit für das neue Jahrzehnt</a>, UMIT, Hall in Tirol.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-08-26</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Digital Science at the University of Innsbruck</i> at Aurora Research Conference Digital Society &amp; Global Citizenship, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem61', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem61Abstract" style="display:none">Growing data processing capacities and progress in
+    analytical methods and artificial intelligence are motivating
+    entire branches of science to raise new questions and to develop
+    new approaches. This digital transformation requires progressive,
+    interdisciplinary synergies between the computational sciences and
+    all other scientific disciplines.  The Digital Science Center
+    (DiSC) at the University of Innsbruck meets this challenge by
+    integrating and promoting digitalisation of scientific research.
+    In this talk I will present some examples of interdisciplinary
+    research by DiSC staff researchers who are experts in specific
+    aspects of digital science.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-08-24</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Picking and Placing</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/forschung/gmar-robotics-school-2021.html">2021 GMAR Summer School</a>, Villa Blanka, Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-07-01</td><td>Justus Piater and Matteo Saveriano give an invited talk <i>Making Robots Learn to Perceive and Act with Understanding</i> at <a href="https://webservices.scientificnet.org/rest/entries/api/v1/blobs/200894">Workshop
+    and Open Lab on Field Robotics - Interdisciplinary aspects of
+    robotics and its applications in outdoor scenarios</a>, NOI Techpark, Bolzano, Italy.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-05-26</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Intelligente und interaktive Systeme</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/aktuell/">GMAR Robotics Science
+    Talks</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-03-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Machine Learning, Perception, And Abstract Concepts</i> at Invited lecture at Ontario Tech U, Canada, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem65', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem65Abstract" style="display:none">With every spectacular achievement of a machine learning
+    system, the long-elusive AI breakthrough is popularly proclaimed
+    to be just around the corner.  Most recent successes have been due
+    in large part to massive data and computation, in particular using
+    deep artificial neural networks.  But can artificial cognition
+    really be achieved just by further scaling up existing
+    machine-learning techniques?  I discuss examples of simple,
+    perceptual problems that are easily solved by humans but very
+    difficult for today's machine learning methods.  These problems
+    reflect how humans conceptualize their world.  Their mastery is
+    thus likely to be an essential prerequisite for autonomous robots
+    to attain higher levels of cognitive abilities.  To get there, a
+    few core issues can be identified that should drive research in
+    cognitive robotics.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-01-28</td><td>Matteo Saveriano gives an invited talk <i>Making robots to learn from human observation?</i> at <a href="https://www.bmeia.gv.at/en/austrian-embassy-ottawa/news/events/detail/article/showcasing-young-austrian-scholars-and-scientists-an-original-seven-part-virtual-lectures-ser/">Showcasing Young Austrian Scholars and Scientists, Austrian cultural forum, Ottawa</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2021-01-14</td><td>Matteo Saveriano gives an invited talk <i>Hierarchical action decomposition and motion learning for the execution of manipulation tasks</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/aktuell/">Hello Tyrol calling! Robotics Talk online, GMAR, Innsbruck</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-11-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Elements of Robot Intelligence
+    – What does it take to make robots smart?</i> at Department Colloquium hosted by Florentin Wörgötter,
+    Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Universität
+    Göttingen, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem68', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem68Abstract" style="display:none">Robot learning is all the rage, but what does it take to
+    get robots to learn what we ultimately want them to do? I will
+    give a high-level characterization of some strengths and
+    weaknesses of current machine learning for robotics, and will try
+    to identify areas that require particular attention.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-11-19</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Machine Learning in Robotics</i> at <a href="https://baiome.org/">bAIome PI Talk, Center for
+    Biomedical AI, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf</a>, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem69', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem69Abstract" style="display:none">Machine Learning increasingly equips robots with
+    learning capabilities and flexibility.  This will enable them to
+    act purposefully in unstructured environments and to react to
+    unforeseen events.  People can teach them intuitively to perform
+    tasks instead of having to program them in painstaking ways.
+    Robots can learn from experience and can improve their behavior
+    over time.  In this talk I will give an overview of methods,
+    opportunities, and challenges of machine learning in
+    robotics.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-11-20</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Patrick Lamprecht present a show <i>Explainable AI: A sneak peek into the Black-Box</i> at <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=4NVfPwdLnCg&amp;t=17m43s">Science Slam</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-10-22</td><td>Matteo Saveriano, Erwan Renaudo, Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez, and Justus Piater co-organize the <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/conferences/hfr2020/">13th
+    International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics
+    (HFR 2020)</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-09-30</td><td>Erwan Renaudo contributes a talk <i>ROSSINI: RobOt kidS deSIgn thiNkIng</i> at <a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030674106">Robotics in
+    Education 2020</a>, online.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-06-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Conditional Neural Movement Primitives</i> at <a href="http://www.gdr-isis.fr/index.php?page=reunion&amp;idreunion=424">GdR
+    ISIS Réunion Apprentissage et Robotique</a>, online. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem73', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem73Abstract" style="display:none">Conditional Neural Movement Primitives (CNMP) constitute
+    a novel framework for robot programming by demonstration based on
+    Conditional Neural Processes (CNP).  Like Bayesian methods such as
+    Gaussian Processes (GP), CNP learn how target distributions depend
+    on data, and can be conditioned on specific data points to infer
+    new target distributions at test time.  Unlike GP that are
+    expensive to train and scale poorly to high dimensions, CNP are
+    neural networks and are trained by gradient descent.  CNMP
+    leverage CNP to represent motion trajectories that can be
+    conditioned, at test time, on task paramters such as goal
+    locations, via points, and/or force readings.  Moreover, CNMP are
+    conditioned on sensor readings during execution, resulting in
+    robust, reactive behavior.  This talk will present an overview of
+    how CNMP work and how they can be used in various robot
+    applications.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-06-03</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: Wie der Roboter denken lernt. (Newspaper article in Tiroler Tageszeitung)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-02-20</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Machine Learning, Perception, And Abstract Concepts</i> at Colloquium hosted by Georg Martius, Max Planck Institute of Intelligent Systems,
+    Tübingen. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem75', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem75Abstract" style="display:none">With every spectacular achievement of a machine learning
+    system, the long-elusive AI breakthrough is popularly proclaimed
+    to be just around the corner.  Most recent successes have been due
+    in large part to massive data and computation, in particular using
+    deep artificial neural networks.  But can artificial cognition
+    really be achieved just by further scaling up existing
+    machine-learning techniques?  I discuss examples of simple,
+    perceptual problems that are easily solved by humans but very
+    difficult for today's machine learning methods.  These problems
+    reflect how humans conceptualize their world.  Their mastery is
+    thus likely to be an essential prerequisite for autonomous robots
+    to attain higher levels of cognitive abilities.  To get there, a
+    few core issues can be identified that should drive research in
+    cognitive robotics.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-01-29</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Digital Science</i> at <a href="https://www.graduateacademy.uni-heidelberg.de/karriere/veranstaltungsreihen.html">Vortragsreihe
+    „Primers for Predocs – Strategien für eine erfolgreiche
+    Promotion“</a>, Universität Heidelberg. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem76', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem76Abstract" style="display:none">Massive availability of data and computing power are
+    promoting data-driven methods in all areas of science and
+    technology.  I will describe how the University of Innsbruck
+    supports this via its new Digital Science Center, and will give a
+    flavor of machine learning for data analysis.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-01-20</td><td>Joanna Chimiak-Opoka, Carina König, and Justus Piater appear in the media: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/ergaenzung-digital-science-erfolgreich-gestartet.html.de">Ergänzung Digital Science erfolgreich gestartet – UIBK Newsroom</a>. (News report on the successful start of the teaching activities of the Digital Science Center, in German)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2020-01-03</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz: Grundlagen, Erfolge,
+    Herausforderungen</i> at 47. Tagung des Innsbrucker Kreises von MoraltheologInnen
+    und SozialethikerInnen, Innsbruck. (In German.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-12-19</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/Tirol-heute/70023/Tirol-heute/14035670/Alexa-Siri-Co-Spione-im-eigenen-Haus/14610743">TV interview by ORF 2 Tirol Heute RedHaus (in German)</a>. (Interview about the functioning of Alexa, Siri, and similar systems)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-12-12</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Too Smart to Be Trusted – Do I Even Want to
+    Understand My Robot?</i> at <a href="http://www.trustrobots.eu/">TrustRobots Lecture series
+    Trust in Robots</a>, TU Vienna.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-12-05</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Heiko Neumann</span>, University of Ulm,  gives an invited colloquium <i>Biologically inspired visual-auditory processing – from
+    brain-like computation to neuromorphic algorithms</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/forschung/lunchtime-seminar/index.html.en">IFI Lunchtime Seminar</a>. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem81', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem81Abstract" style="display:none">A fundamental task of sensory processing is to detect
+    and integrate feature items to group them into perceptual units
+    segregating them from other objects and the background. A
+    framework is discussed which explains how perceptual grouping at
+    early as well as higher-level cognitive stages may be implemented
+    in cortex. Different grouping mechanisms are implemented which are
+    attuned to basic features and feature combinations and mainly
+    evaluated along the forward sweep of stimulus processing. However,
+    due to limitations of local feature detection mechanisms and
+    inherent ambiguities, top-down feedback is required to deliver
+    contextual information helping to disambiguate initial
+    measurements. Feedback of contextual information is demonstrated
+    to improve object recognition performance, stabilize learning of
+    object categories, and integrate multi-sensory representations.
+    The canonical principles of neural computation define a set of
+    core operations to implement above-mentioned mechanisms of
+    perceptual and cognitive inference. These operations can be
+    mapped, in a simplified form, onto neuromorphic platforms to
+    emulate brain-like computation. It is demonstrated that an
+    architecture composed of canonical circuit mechanisms can be
+    mapped onto neuromorphic chip technology facilitating low-energy
+    non-von Neumann computation.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-26</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Tamim Asfour</span>, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,  gives an invited keynote <i>Engineering Humanoids with Motion Intelligence</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/studium/inday-students/index.html.en">inday students</a>. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem82', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem82Abstract" style="display:none">Humanoid robotics plays a central role in robotics
+    research as well as in understanding intelligence. Engineering
+    humanoid robots that are able to learn from humans and
+    sensorimotor experience, to predict the consequences of actions
+    and exploit the interaction with the world to extend their
+    cognitive horizon remains a research grand challenge. Currently,
+    we are experiencing AI systems with superhuman performance in
+    games, image and speech processing. However, the generation of
+    robot behaviors with human-like motion intelligence and
+    performance has yet to be achieved. In this talk, I will present
+    recent progress towards engineering 24/7 humanoid robots that link
+    perception and action to generate intelligent behavior. I will
+    show the ARMAR humanoid robots performing complex grasping and
+    manipulation tasks in kitchen and industrial environments,
+    learning actions from human observation and experience as well as
+    reasoning about object-action relations.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-25</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Enabling Robots to Learn Abstract Concepts</i> at <a href="https://tricolore.inf.unibz.it/tricolore2019/program/">TriCoLore
+    – Creativity | Cognition | Computation</a>, Bolzano, Italy. (International Workshop)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Robots that play and work</i> at Informal workshop (5 invited speakers) organized by
+    Dr. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA FLOWERS, Talence, France.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-18</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz in einer menschlichen
+    Gesellschaft</i> at Robotik in Medizin und Pflege – Jubiläumssymposium
+    des Klinischen Ethikkommittees, A.ö. Landeskrankenhaus – Universitätskliniken
+    Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-08</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>AI Transparency in Autonomous Vehicles</i> at <a href="https://cogvehicles2019.github.io/">Towards Cognitive
+    Vehicles: perception, learning and decision making under
+    real-world constraints. Is bio-inspiration helpful?</a>, Macau. (Workshop at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-03</td><td>Justus Piater, Philipp Gschwandtner, and Simon Haller appear in the media: Österreich-Bild: Bits und Berge - 350 Jahre Forschung in Innsbruck; TV Documentary by ORF 2 (in German).</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-10-23</td><td>Simon Haller appears in the media: TV interview by ORF 2 Tirol Heute (in German).</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-10-11</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://issuu.com/eco.nova/docs/eco_06_2019_issuu/24">KI oder
+    die Geschichte einer gleichzeitigen Über- und Unterschätzung
+    (eco.nova, in German)</a>. (Comprehensive interview article (6 pages) on artificial intelligence in eco.nova, a nationwide magazine covering trends in economy, science, architectur, health &amp; wellness, tax, law, dining and lifestyle)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-10-10</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Georg Martius</span>, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems,
+    Tübingen,  gives an invited colloquium <i>Control What You Can – Intrinsically Motivated
+    Hierarchical RL</i> at IIS Colloquium. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem92', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem92Abstract" style="display:none">I will present present a hierarchical reinforcement
+    learning agent that is intrinsically motivated to learn how to
+    control its observation space in the fastest possible manner by
+    optimizing learning progress. The agent mimicks to some extend the
+    development process how a baby learns.  Our agent learns what can
+    be controlled, how to allocate time and attention, and the
+    relations between objects in the environment.  In a nutshell, our
+    work combines several task-level planning ideas (e.g.,
+    backtracking search on task graph, probabilistic road-maps,
+    allocation of search efforts, etc.), in the form of structured
+    prior, with deep RL control and relational reasoning to learn from
+    scratch.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-10-10</td><td>IIS guest <span style="font-weight:bold">Georg Martius</span>, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems,
+    Tübingen,  gives an invited colloquium <i>Self-Organization of Behavior in Autonomous Robot
+    Development</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/forschung/lunchtime-seminar/index.html.en">IFI Lunchtime Seminar</a>. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem93', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem93Abstract" style="display:none">I am studying the question how robots can autonomously
+    develop skills.  Considering children, it seems natural that they
+    have their own agenda. They explore their environment in a playful
+    way, without the necessity for somebody to tell them what to do
+    next. With robots the situation is different. There are many
+    methods to let robots learn to do something, but it is always
+    about learning to do a specific task from a supervision
+    signal. Unfortunately, these methods do not scale well to systems
+    with many degrees of freedom, except a good prestructuring is
+    available.  The hypothesis is that if the robots first learn to
+    use their bodies and interact with the environment in a playful
+    way they can acquire many small skills with which they can later
+    solve complicated tasks much quicker. In the talk I will present
+    my steps into this direction. Starting from some general
+    information theoretic consideration we provide robots with an own
+    drive to do something and explore their behavioral
+    capabilities. Technically, this is achieved by considering the
+    sensorimotor loop as a dynamical system, whose parameters are
+    adapted online according to a gradient ascent on an approximated
+    information quantity.  I'll show examples of simulated and real
+    robots behaving in a self-determined way and present future
+    directions.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-17</td><td>Matteo Saveriano contributes a talk <i>From Intuitive Skill Transfer to Large-Scale Robotic Knowledge Bases</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/disc/events/">DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series</a>, Department of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>David Peer contributes a talk <i>Vector Routing in Capsule Networks</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>Sayantan Auddy contributes a talk <i>Progress, Compress and Expand - A framework for lifelong learning of
+robotics tasks</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Towards Open-Ended Robot Learning</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-15</td><td>Matteo Saveriano contributes a talk <i>Learning Structured Robotic Tasks via Human Imitation</i> at School of Learning, Perception and Robotics (SPROuT), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-12</td><td>Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz appear in the media: Sport und Roboter gehen Hand in Hand (in Liechtensteiner Vaterland).</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-07-04</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Introduction to Prototyping autonomous Robots using the Robot
+Operating System (ROS)</i> at Institut für Informatik, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-06-27</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Selbst lernende Roboter der Zukunft</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/aktuell/">GMAR Robotics Talks
+    Reloaded</a>, Vienna.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-06-27</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik - Ein Überblick und Reality Check</i> at Campustag NMS Götzis, Institut für Informatik, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-06-13</td><td>Simon Haller gives an invited talk <i>Coding Literacy –
+    Konzepte und Anwendungen in der Schule und im Alltag</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/2019/06/13/kuenstliche-intelligenz-und-robotik-als-theologisch-ethische-...">Künstliche
+    Intelligenz und Robotik als theologisch-ethische
+    Herausforderung</a>, Universität Innsbruck. (Tagung organisiert vom Institut für Islamische Theologie und Religionspädagogik)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-06-13</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz in einer menschlichen
+    Gesellschaft</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/2019/06/13/kuenstliche-intelligenz-und-robotik-als-theologisch-ethische-...">Künstliche
+    Intelligenz und Robotik als theologisch-ethische
+    Herausforderung</a>, Universität Innsbruck. (Tagung organisiert vom Institut für Islamische Theologie und Religionspädagogik)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-24 – 2020-12-31</td><td>Erwan Renaudo edits a guest edition <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10337/computational-models-of-affordance-for-robotics/">Special Issue on Computational Models of Affordance in Robotics</a> in <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurorobotics">Frontiers in Neurorobotics</a>. (Special Issue organized as a follow-up of the Workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-24</td><td>Philipp Zech and Erwan Renaudo co-organize the <a href="https://r1d1.github.io/iwcmar/">2nd International
+    Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in Robotics
+    </a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-09</td><td>Erwan Renaudo contributes a talk <i>Action representations in robotics: A taxonomy
+    and systematic classification</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/forschung/lunchtime-seminar/events/2019-05-09.html">IFI
+    Lunchtime Seminar</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-05-02</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Digitalization: Promises and Challenges</i> at <a href="https://www.andrassyuni.eu/nachrichten/innovation-trifft-geschichte-oder-wie-kommunizieren-wir-digital-und-analog.html">Möglichkeiten
+    und Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung</a>, Universität Innsbruck. (7. Interdisziplinäres Doktorandenkolloquium im Rahmen der Kooperation zwischen der Andrássy Universität Budapest und der Autonomen Region Trentino-Südtirol)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-04-26 – 2019-04-27</td><td>Birgit Juen, Cornelia Vidovic, Manuela Resch, Justus Piater, and Simon Haller co-organize the <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/schule/robocupjunior/index.html.de">RoboCup Junior Austrian Open 2019</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-04-26</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: TV interview on educational and societal aspects of robot
+    technology by ORF 2 Tirol Heute (in German). (TV report on the RoboCup Junior Austrian Open 2019)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-03-28</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Coding und Robotik - Makerspaces mit Einplatinencomputern</i> at <a href="https://www.efuture-day.tsn.at/content/programmablauf-2019">eFuture-Day</a>, Grillhof Vill.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-03-26</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Selbst lernende Roboter der Zukunft</i> at <a href="https://www.standort-tirol.at/page.cfm?vpath=veranstaltungen&amp;genericpageid=25174">GMAR Robotics Talk: Robotik in Fertigung, Montage und
+    Forschung</a>, INNIO Jenbacher.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-03-26</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://www.standort-tirol.at/page.cfm?vpath=veranstaltungen&amp;genericpageid=25174">GMAR Robotics Talk: Robotik in Fertigung, Montage und
+    Forschung</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-02-20</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz in der Robotik</i> at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.de/e/smart-city-finale-2019-tickets-56007354505">Smart City Finale 2019</a>, HTL Dornbirn.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-01-18</td><td>Simon Haller gives an invited colloquium <i>Educational Robotics Initiativen (an der Universität Innsbruck))</i> at <a href="https://www.ocg.at/de/educational-robotics">Jährlicher Educational Robotics Workshop (ERW) des OCG</a>, OCG, Wien.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-01-10</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>High-Level, Skill-Based Robot Programming Using Autonomous
+    Playing and Autonomous Testing</i> at <a href="https://www.standort-tirol.at/page.cfm?vpath=veranstaltungen&amp;genericpageid=23118">Taste Digitalization – CAMPUS:digi:TOUR (4)</a>, ICT, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-10-27</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000085351600/des-menschen-angst-vor-der-maschine">Des Menschen Angst vor der Maschine. Newspaper
+    article (Der Standard) following interview</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-10-05</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Perception of Abstract Concepts</i> at <a href="http://iros2018-uvsp.org/">Unconventional Sensing and
+    Processing for Robotic Visual Perception</a>, Madrid, Spain. (Workshop at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-09-21</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Concept Learning For Robot Intelligence</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/quantum-machine-learning-plus/index.html.en">Conference
+    on Quantum Machine Learning Plus</a>, Innsbruck, Austria. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem123', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem123Abstract" style="display:none">Current robot learning, and machine learning in general,
+    requires carefully-engineered setups (environments, objective
+    functions, training data, etc.) for learning to succeed.
+    Perception and action spaces are specially crafted to meet the
+    requirements of the learning objective, which is specified in
+    advance.  How can we construct robot learning systems that can
+    learn in an open-ended fashion, acquire skills not foreseen by its
+    designers, and scale up to virtually unlimited levels of
+    complexity?  I argue that a key to achieving this lies in the
+    robot's ability to learn abstract concepts that can be reused as a
+    basis for future learning, both in autonomous exploration and for
+    teaching by humans.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-07-17</td><td>Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz appear in the media: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/news/medienspiegel/nachlesen/2018_07_17_roboter_zu_besuch_in_liechtenstein-liechtensteiner-vaterland.pdf">
+    Roboter zu Besuch in Liechtenstein
+    </a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-07-03</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Wie kann ein Roboter lernen, die Welt zu verstehen?</i> at Campustag BORG Schwaz, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-30</td><td>Philipp Zech, Barry Ridge, and Emre Ugur co-organize the <a href="https://afford.gitlab.io/rss-workshop/">1st
+    International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in
+    Robotics</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-30</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Objects, Parts, Functions, Affordances, Actions, and Tasks</i> at <a href="https://afford.gitlab.io/rss-workshop/">1st
+    International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in
+    Robotics</a>, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (Workshop at the Robotics: Science and Systems conference) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem128', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem128Abstract" style="display:none">Human-made objects are constructed with functional
+    parts.  These are closely related to affordances; e.g., a handle
+    is a part whose function is to be grasped and that affords
+    grasping.  It is these affordances that robots need to detect to
+    perform tasks flexibly using unknown objects.  Since affordances
+    are often associated with parts, it makes sense for the
+    segmentation of unknown objects into parts for affordance
+    detection to be driven by known affordances.  Then, the
+    suitability of an object for a given task is often characterized
+    by the combination of the actions its various parts afford. For
+    example, to drive a nail into the wall you would like an object
+    that possesses a part that affords pounding and another that
+    affords grasping.  I will discuss methods that allow robots to
+    learn to segment objects in terms of their affordances, and to
+    learn the suitability of objects for specific tasks as a function
+    of their combination of affordances.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-12</td><td>Justus Piater, Simon Haller, and Olaf Köhler appear in the media: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/music-globe-und-cubeat.html.de">
+    Music Globe und Cubeat
+    </a>. (Newsroom of the University of Innsbruck)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-12</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Robotics im Klassenzimmer</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/schule/inday-teachers/index.html.de">InDay Teachers 2018</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-05-04</td><td>Senka Krivic gives an invited colloquium <i>Learning Predictive Models for Robotics</i> at  Colloquium hosted by Dr. Lorenzo Natale , Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-05-02</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Making Robots Learn to Perceive and Act with Understanding</i> at Talk as part of the Theoretical Physics seminar
+    series, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of
+    Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem133', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem133Abstract" style="display:none">The title of this talk is the motto of my research
+    group.  In this talk, I describe our high-level agenda and present
+    some representative research projects it motivated.  These include
+    a robot vision system for object detection, recognition and pose
+    estimation using probabilistic models, and methods allowing a
+    robot to bootstrap higher-level knowledge and skills by
+    exploratory interaction with objects.  All our work heavily relies
+    on machine learning.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-04-27</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Machine Learning, Perception, And Abstract Concepts</i> at Colloquium hosted by Prof. Andreas Müller, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-04-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Intelligente Roboter – Freund, Feind oder
+    Hirngespinst?</i> at <a href="http://www.wissensdurst-festival.at/innsbruck18-di-machine">Popular
+    science talk within the WissensDurst series</a>, Innsbruck, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-04-11</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten/rechtswissenschaftliche/aktuelles/2018/podiumsdiskussion--ai---wird-der-mensch-ersetzbar-.html">AI
+    – Wird der Mensch ersetzbar?, organized by the Faculty of Law and
+    the European Law Students’ Association Austria</a>, Innsbruck, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-04-10</td><td>Philipp Zech, Justus Piater, and Cornelia Vidovic appear in the media: <a href="http://www.tt.com/lebensart/web/14222291-91/roboter-bauen-ist-ja-kinderleicht.csp">
+      Roboter bauen? Ist ja kinderleicht
+    </a>. (Newspaper article in Tiroler Tageszeitung)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-04-05</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>High-Level, Skill-Based Robot Programming Using Autonomous
+    Playing and Autonomous Testing</i> at RSS Area Chair Symposium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-03-23</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Was sind Roboter? Wie verstehen Roboter? Wie baut man einen einfachen Roboter?</i> at Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-02-09</td><td>Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz teach a tutorial <i>Digitale Selbstverteidigung: Security und Privacy im Internet</i> at Safer Internet Tag, Jugenzentrum Tivoli.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-01-18</td><td>Simon Haller and Philipp Zech give an invited colloquium <i>Educational Robotics Initiativen in Westösterreich</i> at <a href="https://www.ocg.at/de/educational-robotics">Jährlicher Educational Robotics Workshop (ERW) des OCG</a>, OCG, Wien.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-12-20</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Machine Learning, Perception, And Abstract Concepts</i> at <a href="https://www.informatik.kit.edu/7009.php/event/34536">Colloquium
+    hosted by Prof. Tamim Asfour</a>, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-12-13</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Build your own Mini Robot</i> at AK Informatiklehrer, Universität Innsbruck. (Build and code your own mini robot.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-12-01</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/news/medienspiegel/nachlesen/01122017_zukunftforschung_piater.pdf">Frage
+    der Tradition.  Interview about Open Access publishing by Zukunft
+    Forschung, the science and research magazine of the University of
+    Innsbruck</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-11-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Scale Up Machine Learning, And Cognition Will Emerge.  Will
+    It?</i> at <a href="http://www.eucognition.org/index.php?page=2017-zurich-general-info">EUCognition
+    Meeting</a>, Zürich, Switzerland.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-11-15</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Digitale Kompetenzen entwickeln mit Micro:Bits, Calliope Mini und Co</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/medien-kommunikation/events/workshops/eintraege/digitale-kompetenzen-entwickeln-mit-microbits-calliope-mini-co.html">Programm EduMediaLab 2017</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-11-09</td><td>Simon Haller and Philipp Zech teach a tutorial <i>Wie kann ein Roboter lernen, die Welt zu verstehen?</i> at <a href="http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/vwa-und-diplomarbeiten/">VWA- und Diplomarbeitentag</a>, Universität Innsbruck. (VWA- und Diplomarbeitentag für Schülerinnen und Schüler von AHS und BHS.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-10-05</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Open-Ended Robot Learning: First Steps and Next
+    Challenges</i> at <a href="http://www.imol-conf.org/">The
+    Third International Workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended
+    Learning (IMOL 2017)</a>, Rome, Italy.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-09-24</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="http://h2020sarafun.eu/iros2017_hr/">IEEE/RSJ IROS
     Workshop on Human in-the-loop robotic manipulation: on the
     influence of the human role</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-09-15</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.museum-joanneum.at/museum-fuer-geschichte/ihr-besuch/programm/events/event/6511/die-maschine-denkt-die-maschine-lenkt">Die
     Maschine denkt – die Maschine lenkt: Wie gefährlich ist Künstliche
-    Intelligenz?</a> in Graz, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-08-28</td><td>Simon Haller and Andrea Bou-Vinals teach a tutorial <i>Bau eines hydraulischen Roboter Arms</i>, <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/jungeuni/veranstaltungen/ksu/2017/programm-kinder-sommer-unis.pdf">Kinder-Sommer-Uni 2017 (Programm)</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-08-25</td><td>Simon Haller gives an invited talk <i>Ö1 Children’s University Alpbach – Science and Technology for Kids:
+    Intelligenz?</a>, Graz, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-08-28</td><td>Simon Haller and Andrea Bou-Vinals teach a tutorial <i>Bau eines hydraulischen Roboter Arms</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/jungeuni/veranstaltungen/ksu/2017/programm-kinder-sommer-unis.pdf">Kinder-Sommer-Uni 2017 (Programm)</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-08-25</td><td>Simon Haller and Katharina Seeber teach a tutorial <i>Ö1 Children’s University Alpbach – Science and Technology for Kids:
-     Technik zum Nutzen der Natur und des Menschen? Zukunft Robotik</i>, <a href="https://www.alpbach.org/en/session/tec17-o1-childrens-university-alpbach-science-and-technology-for-kids-08-25-09-00/">European Forum Alpbach 2017 / Technology Symposium</a>, Forum Alpbach.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-08-25</td><td>Simon Haller and Katharina Seeber teach a tutorial <i>Ö1 Children’s University Alpbach – Science and Technology for Kids:
+    Workshop for the construction of hydraulic robot arms</i> at <a href="https://www.alpbach.org/en/session/tec17-o1-childrens-university-alpbach-science-and-technology-for-kids-08-25-09-00/">European Forum Alpbach 2017 / Technology Symposium</a>, Forum Alpbach.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-07-27</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen</i> at Sommertechnikum MINT, Universität Innsbruck. (Schnuppervorlesung)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-07-19</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Learning to Grasp Using More or Less Vision</i> at <a href="http://rmc.dlr.de/soma-summerschool/">Summer School on
-    Workshop for the construction of hydraulic robot arms</i>, <a href="https://www.alpbach.org/en/session/tec17-o1-childrens-university-alpbach-science-and-technology-for-kids-08-25-09-00/">European Forum Alpbach 2017 / Technology Symposium</a>, Forum Alpbach.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-07-19</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Learning to Grasp Using More or Less Vision</i>, <a href="http://rmc.dlr.de/soma-summerschool/">Summer School on
+    Soft Manipulation</a>, Lake Chiemsee, Germany.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-06-28</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Bootstrapping Robot Cognition From Sensorimotor
-    Soft Manipulation</a>, Lake Chiemsee, Germany.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-06-09</td><td>Simon Haller, Erwan Renaudo, and Philipp Zech present a show <i>1. Tiroler Pop-, Rock- und Tanz-Märchen für Erwachsene - &quot;König Laurins Rosengarten&quot; - Open Air</i>, <a href="http://www.maerchenfestival.at/index.php?id=170">Tiroler Märchenfestival</a>, Vögelsberg.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-05-23</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>A quick glance at BBC Micro:Bit and Calliope Mini</i>, <a href="http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/inday-teachers-2017">“inday teachers”</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-04-21</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Maschinelles Lernen – Eine Einführung mit Blick auf
+    Interaction</i> at Forschungsseminar am Institut für Christliche Philosophie, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-06-09</td><td>Simon Haller, Erwan Renaudo, and Philipp Zech present a show <i>1. Tiroler Pop-, Rock- und Tanz-Märchen für Erwachsene - &quot;König Laurins Rosengarten&quot; - Open Air</i> at <a href="http://www.maerchenfestival.at/index.php?id=170">Tiroler Märchenfestival</a>, Vögelsberg. (Mehrfache Auftritte beim 1. Tiroler Pop-, Rock- und Tanz-Märchen für Erwachsene am: 9./23.6.2017 und 8./9.7.2017)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-05-23</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>A quick glance at BBC Micro:Bit and Calliope Mini</i> at <a href="http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/inday-teachers-2017">“inday teachers”</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-05-15</td><td>Justus Piater contributes a talk <i>Making Robots Learn to Perceive and Act with Understanding</i> at <a href="http://lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2017/901/info.php3?wsid=901&amp;venue=Oort">Lorentz
-    Digitale Geisteswissenschaften</i>, <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/brenner-archiv/xml/workshop_201704/">Workshop
+    Workshop on Perspectives on Developmental Robotics</a>, Leiden, Netherlands.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-04-27</td><td>Senka Krivic gives an invited colloquium <i>Towards Adaptive Mobile Manipulations</i> at <a href="http://www.ausy.tu-darmstadt.de/Teaching/TalksPriorToFall2013">Talk in the Oberseminar - Intelligent Autonomous Systems</a>, TU Darmstadt.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-04-21</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Maschinelles Lernen – Eine Einführung mit Blick auf
+    Digitale Geisteswissenschaften</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/brenner-archiv/xml/workshop_201704/">Workshop
     über Digitale Methoden in den Geisteswissenschaften</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-03-23</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Progress in Robot Learning – Is Modeling
-    Crucial for Success?</i>, <a href="https://www.eu-robotics.net/robotics_forum/events/systems-engineering---progress-in-robot-modeling---why-modeling-is-crucial-for-success.html">Systems
+    Crucial for Success?</i> at <a href="https://www.eu-robotics.net/robotics_forum/events/systems-engineering---progress-in-robot-modeling---why-modeling-is-crucial-for-success.html">Systems
     Engineering - Progress in Robot Modeling - Why Modeling is Crucial
-    for Success</a>, Edinburgh, Scotland.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-03-17</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Programming the BBC Micro:Bit</i>, <a href="https://git.uibk.ac.at/c703101/micro-bit">Slides and Code</a>, AGI, Innsbruck, Angerzellgasse 15 .</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-02-05</td><td>Simon Haller appears in the media: <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/simon/2017_02_06_Haller_TTBeilage.pdf">Die liebste Himbeere der Bastler. TT Magazin Interview.</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-12-09</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>From Machine Learning to Agency</i>, <a href="http://www.eucognition.org/index.php?page=2016-vienna-general-info">EUCognition Meeting</a>, Vienna, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-11-26</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Roboter für Menschen – Menschen für Roboter</i>, <a href="http://www.ausservillgraten.gv.at/images/dateien-hp/B%C3%BCrgerservice/Gemeindezeitung_-_Archiv/Dez-2016-HP.pdf">Uni im Dorf 2016</a>, Ausservillgraten.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-11-26</td><td>Simon Haller and Katharina Seeber teach a tutorial <i>Bau eines hydraulischen Roboter Arms</i>, <a href="http://www.ausservillgraten.gv.at/images/dateien-hp/B%C3%BCrgerservice/Gemeindezeitung_-_Archiv/Dez-2016-HP.pdf">Uni im Dorf 2016</a>, Ausservillgraten.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-11-08</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Prototyping (autonomous) Robots using Python and ROS</i>, <a href="https://git.uibk.ac.at/c703101/prototyping-robots">Slides and Code</a>, Innsbruck, Adamgasse 22.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-11-06</td><td>Senka Krivic appears in the media: <a href="http://itgirls.ba/supergirls/senka-krivic-razvijam-robote-koji-ce-djeci-pomagati-u-pospremanju-igracaka/">Webportal
+    for Success</a>, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Workshop at the European Robotics Forum)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-03-17</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Programming the BBC Micro:Bit</i> at <a href="https://git.uibk.ac.at/c703101/micro-bit">Slides and Code</a>, AGI, Innsbruck, Angerzellgasse 15 .</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-02-05</td><td>Simon Haller appears in the media: <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/simon/2017_02_06_Haller_TTBeilage.pdf">Die liebste Himbeere der Bastler. TT Magazin Interview.</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2017-01-30</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Probabilistic Visual Models for Gestural Human-Robot
-article (ITgirls.ba) following interview (in Bosnian)</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-10-14</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Bootstrapping Complex Skills by Building on Experience</i>, <a href="http://mlhlcr2016.tanichu.com/">Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities</a>, at IROS, Daejeon, Korea.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-10-04</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>From Machine Learning to Agency</i>, <a href="http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/blog/2015/10/31/cognitive-development-and-symbol-emergence-in-humans-and-robots/">NII Shonan Meeting on Cognitive Development and Symbol Emergence in Humans and Robots</a>, Shonan Village Center, Japan.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-09-26</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>From Machine Learning to Agency</i>, <a href="http://robo21century.physik3.gwdg.de">“Robotics in the 21st century: Challenges and Promises“</a>, Gottingen, Germany.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-09-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>From Machine Learning to Agency</i>, <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/agency-and-physics/events/aqpic.html">Conference on Agency and (Quantum) Physics</a>, Konstanz, Germany.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-08-12</td><td>Simon Haller and Andrea Bou-Vinals teach a tutorial <i>Das Innenleben eines Computers</i>, <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/jungeuni/veranstaltungen/ksu/kinder-sommer-uni-2016.pdf">Kinder-Sommer-Uni 2016 (Programm)</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-08-03</td><td>Simon Haller and Andrea Bou-Vinals teach a tutorial <i>Das Innenleben eines Computers</i>, <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/jungeuni/veranstaltungen/ksu/kinder-sommer-uni-2016.pdf">Kinder-Sommer-Uni 2016 (Programm)</a>, University of Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-05-01</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="http://derstandard.at/2000035773928/Wie-Robin-gelernt-hat-einen-Turm-zu-bauen">Wie Robin gelernt hat, einen Turm zu bauen. Newspaper
+    Interaction</i> at Colloquium hosted by Prof. Nicolae Sebe, University of Trento.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-12-09</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>From Machine Learning to Agency</i> at <a href="http://www.eucognition.org/index.php?page=2016-vienna-general-info">EUCognition Meeting</a>, Vienna, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-11-26</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Roboter für Menschen – Menschen für Roboter</i> at <a href="http://www.ausservillgraten.gv.at/images/dateien-hp/B%C3%BCrgerservice/Gemeindezeitung_-_Archiv/Dez-2016-HP.pdf">Uni im Dorf 2016</a>, Ausservillgraten.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-11-26</td><td>Simon Haller and Katharina Seeber teach a tutorial <i>Bau eines hydraulischen Roboter Arms</i> at <a href="http://www.ausservillgraten.gv.at/images/dateien-hp/B%C3%BCrgerservice/Gemeindezeitung_-_Archiv/Dez-2016-HP.pdf">Uni im Dorf 2016</a>, Ausservillgraten.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-11-08</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Prototyping (autonomous) Robots using Python and ROS</i> at <a href="https://git.uibk.ac.at/c703101/prototyping-robots">Slides and Code</a>, Innsbruck, Adamgasse 22.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-11-06</td><td>Senka Krivic appears in the media: <a href="http://itgirls.ba/supergirls/senka-krivic-razvijam-robote-koji-ce-djeci-pomagati-u-pospremanju-igracaka/">Webportal
-    article (Der Standard) following interview and demonstration</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-05-01</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="http://www.tt.com/lebensart/11446802-91/wie-roboter-die-zukunft-der-arbeit-ver%C3%A4ndern.csp">Wie Roboter die Zukunft der Arbeit verändern.  Newspaper
+article (ITgirls.ba) following interview (in Bosnian)</a>. (IT magazine interview on the SQUIRREL project and its challenges intended for a public audience.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-10-14</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Bootstrapping Complex Skills by Building on Experience</i> at <a href="http://mlhlcr2016.tanichu.com/">Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities</a>, at IROS, Daejeon, Korea.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-10-04</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>From Machine Learning to Agency</i> at <a href="http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/blog/2015/10/31/cognitive-development-and-symbol-emergence-in-humans-and-robots/">NII Shonan Meeting on Cognitive Development and Symbol Emergence in Humans and Robots</a>, Shonan Village Center, Japan.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-09-26</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>From Machine Learning to Agency</i> at <a href="http://robo21century.physik3.gwdg.de">“Robotics in the 21st century: Challenges and Promises“</a>, Gottingen, Germany.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-09-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>From Machine Learning to Agency</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/agency-and-physics/events/aqpic.html">Conference on Agency and (Quantum) Physics</a>, Konstanz, Germany.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-08-12</td><td>Simon Haller and Andrea Bou-Vinals teach a tutorial <i>Das Innenleben eines Computers</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/jungeuni/veranstaltungen/ksu/kinder-sommer-uni-2016.pdf">Kinder-Sommer-Uni 2016 (Programm)</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-08-03</td><td>Simon Haller and Andrea Bou-Vinals teach a tutorial <i>Das Innenleben eines Computers</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/jungeuni/veranstaltungen/ksu/kinder-sommer-uni-2016.pdf">Kinder-Sommer-Uni 2016 (Programm)</a>, University of Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-05-01</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="http://derstandard.at/2000035773928/Wie-Robin-gelernt-hat-einen-Turm-zu-bauen">Wie Robin gelernt hat, einen Turm zu bauen. Newspaper
-    article (Tiroler Tageszeitung) following interview</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-05-01</td><td>Simon Haller appears in the media: <a href="https://www.6020online.at/ausgaben/mai-2016/lebensretter-und-rampensaeue/">Lebensretter und Rampensäue, 6020 Interview.</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-21</td><td>Justus Piater, Emre Ugur, and Simon Hangl appear in the media: <a href="http://tvthek.orf.at/program/Tirol-heute/70023/Tirol-heute/12501058/Lernen-wie-ein-Kind-Lange-Nacht-der-Forschung/12506816">TV
+    article (Der Standard) following interview and demonstration</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-05-01</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="http://www.tt.com/lebensart/11446802-91/wie-roboter-die-zukunft-der-arbeit-ver%C3%A4ndern.csp">Wie Roboter die Zukunft der Arbeit verändern.</a>. (Newspaper article in Tiroler Tageszeitung following interview)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-05-01</td><td>Simon Haller appears in the media: <a href="https://www.6020online.at/ausgaben/mai-2016/lebensretter-und-rampensaeue/">Lebensretter und Rampensäue, 6020 Interview.</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-21</td><td>Justus Piater, Emre Ugur, and Simon Hangl appear in the media: <a href="http://tvthek.orf.at/program/Tirol-heute/70023/Tirol-heute/12501058/Lernen-wie-ein-Kind-Lange-Nacht-der-Forschung/12506816">TV
     report on child-like robot learning by ORF 2 Tirol Heute (in
-    German)</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-21</td><td>Justus Piater and Emre Ugur appear in the media: <a href="http://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2769952/">Web report
+    German)</a>. (TV interview on the SQUIRREL and Xperience projects and their challenges intended for a public audience.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-21</td><td>Justus Piater and Emre Ugur appear in the media: <a href="http://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2769952/">Web report
     on child-like robot learning by ORF (in German)</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-21</td><td>Justus Piater, Emre Ugur, and Simon Hangl appear in the media: <a href="http://oe1.orf.at/programm/434380">Radio report on
-    child-like robot learning by ORF Ö1 Wissen Aktuell (in German)</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-16</td><td>Philipp Zech appears in the media: <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/_media/public/16042016news_zech_lnf_full.pdf">Print Article (News)</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-05</td><td>Simon Haller appears in the media: <a href="http://www.tt.com/lebensart/freizeit/11331126-91/die-zukunft-der-roboter.csp">Die Zukunft der Roboter, TT Interview.</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-02 – 2016-04-03</td><td>Simon Haller, Sebastian Stabinger, Cornelia Vidovic, and Justus Piater co-organize the <a href="http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/robocupjunior-2016-austrian-open-roboter-im-wettkampf/">RoboCupJunior Austrian Open 2016</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-03-02</td><td>Simon Haller gives an invited talk <i>Tips and Tricks for Rapid Prototyping using ROS</i>, <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?eid=aGY5c21lc2JzZ210am9yMWpoczl1ZmNzb2cgY21wZS5ldmVudHNAbQ#eventpage_6">Robotics Seminar at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi</a>, Istanbul, Turkey.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-02-29 – 2016-03-04</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the Winter School on Interactive Mobile Manipulation.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-02-21</td><td>Emre Ugur gives an invited talk <i>Closing the loop: From continuous exploration to symbolic
+    child-like robot learning by ORF Ö1 Wissen Aktuell (in German)</a>. (Radio report on the SQUIRREL and Xperience projects and their challenges intended for a public audience.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-16</td><td>Philipp Zech appears in the media: <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/_media/public/16042016news_zech_lnf_full.pdf">Print Article (News)</a>. (News magazine interview on the SQUIRREL project and its challenges intended for a public audience.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-05</td><td>Simon Haller appears in the media: <a href="http://www.tt.com/lebensart/freizeit/11331126-91/die-zukunft-der-roboter.csp">Die Zukunft der Roboter, TT Interview.</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-04-02 – 2016-04-03</td><td>Simon Haller, Sebastian Stabinger, Cornelia Vidovic, and Justus Piater co-organize the <a href="http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/robocupjunior-2016-austrian-open-roboter-im-wettkampf/">RoboCupJunior Austrian Open 2016</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-03-02</td><td>Simon Haller gives an invited talk <i>Tips and Tricks for Rapid Prototyping using ROS</i> at <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?eid=aGY5c21lc2JzZ210am9yMWpoczl1ZmNzb2cgY21wZS5ldmVudHNAbQ#eventpage_6">Robotics Seminar at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi</a>, Istanbul, Turkey.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-02-29 – 2016-03-04</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the Winter School on Interactive Mobile Manipulation.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-02-21</td><td>Emre Ugur gives an invited talk <i>Closing the loop: From continuous exploration to symbolic
-    planning</i>, <a href="http://www.cnr.osaka-u.ac.jp/?p=1707&amp;lang=en">2nd
+    planning</i> at <a href="http://www.cnr.osaka-u.ac.jp/?p=1707&amp;lang=en">2nd
-    International Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics</a>, Osaka, Japan.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-02-04</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: Interview about potential for exploitation of ICT research
+    International Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics</a>, Osaka, Japan.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-02-12 – 2016-02-17</td><td>Safoura Rezapour contributes a talk <i>Learning Compositional Object Representation with
+    Functionality</i> at <a href="https://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2016/aaai16robotics-fellowships.php">AAAI-16
+    Robotics Fellowship Session</a>, PHoenix, AZ, USA.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-02-04</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: Interview about potential for exploitation of ICT research
     by the Technology Transfer Center of Western Austria
-    (WTZ West).</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-02-03</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="http://www.tt.com/panorama/11075798-91/fast-wie-science-fiction-ein-roboter-der-lernt-wie-ein-kind.csp?tab=article">Newspaper
+    (WTZ West). (Public interview regarding economic challenges that are addressed by projects conducted or participated by IIS.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-02-03</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="http://www.tt.com/panorama/11075798-91/fast-wie-science-fiction-ein-roboter-der-lernt-wie-ein-kind.csp?tab=article">Newspaper
     article (Tiroler Tageszeitung) following interview and robot
-    demonstrations</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-22</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Grasping and Manipulation</i>, <a href="http://www.gmar.at/pdf/call_gmar_winterschool1.pdf">GMAR Winter School on
+    demonstrations</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-22</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Grasping and Manipulation</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/pdf/call_gmar_winterschool1.pdf">GMAR Winter School on
-    Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016</td><td>Emre Ugur edits a guest edition <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/emre/cfp.html">Computational
+    Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria. (Tutorial on grasping and manipulation held at the GMAR winter school in Graz.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-21</td><td>Philipp Zech contributes a talk <i>Grasp Affordance Density Learning</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/pdf/call_gmar_winterschool1.pdf">GMAR
+    Winter School on Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria. (Contributed talk on grasp affordance learning held at the GMAR winter school in Graz.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-21</td><td>Simon Haller contributes a talk <i>Integrating Perception Neuron motion capturing into ROS</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/pdf/call_gmar_winterschool1.pdf">GMAR
+    Winter School on Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria. (Contributed talk on motion capturing held at the GMAR winter school in Graz.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-21</td><td>Senka Krivic contributes a talk <i>Push Manipulation Skill</i> at <a href="http://www.gmar.at/pdf/call_gmar_winterschool1.pdf">GMAR
+    Winter School on Robotics</a>, Graz, Austria. (Contributed talk on non-prehensile pushing held at the GMAR winter school in Graz.)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2016-01-01 – 2016-12-31</td><td>Emre Ugur edits a guest edition <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/emre/cfp.html">Computational
     Models of Affordances for Cognitive Robots</a> in <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563672">IEEE
     Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-12-17</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Distributions of Diverse Features For Single and
-    Multiple-View Robot Vision</i>, <a href="http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/ComputerVision/3DPose-2015.html">1st
+    Multiple-View Robot Vision</i> at <a href="http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/ComputerVision/3DPose-2015.html">1st
     International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose</a>, at ICCV, Santiago, Chile.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-12-03 – 2015-12-05</td><td>Antonio Rodriguez-Sanchez and George Azzopardi co-organize the <a href="http://cmvc.bionetics.org/2015/show/home">The First
     International Workshop on Computational Models of the Visual
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     Attention</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-10-04 – 2015-10-09</td><td>Justus Piater, Jan Peters, Robert Platt, and Siddhartha Srinivasa co-organize the <a href="http://www.dagstuhl.de/15411">Dagstuhl Seminar 15411
     on Multimodal Manipulation Under Uncertainty</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-09-28</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Stacked learning for bootstrapping symbols from
-    sensorimotor experience</i>, <a href="http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/">Workshop on
+    sensorimotor experience</i> at <a href="http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/">Workshop on
     Learning Object Affordances: A fundamental step to allow
     prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots</a>, at IROS, Hamburg, Germany.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-09-28</td><td>Emre Ugur, Lorenzo Jamone, Angelo Cangelosi, Tamim Asfour, and Jose Santos-Victor co-organize the <a href="http://objectaffordances.blogspot.pt/">Workshop on
     Learning Object Affordances: A fundamental step to allow
-    prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-07-31</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Stacked learning of affordances</i>, <a href="http://emreugur.net/ICAR2015-WS-RobotLearning/">Workshop on
+    prediction, planning and tool use in autonomous robots</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-08-04</td><td>Simon Hangl contributes a talk <i>Reactive, Task-specific Object Manipulation by Metric
+    Reinforcement Learning</i> at <a href="https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/documents/10180/555009/2nd+Human+Brain+Project+Education+Workshop/38dd921e-b79b-41b0-8eb2-12aa78f93451">
+nd Human Brain Project School on Future Computing</a>, Obergurgl, Austria.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-07-31</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Stacked learning of affordances</i> at <a href="http://emreugur.net/ICAR2015-WS-RobotLearning/">Workshop on
     Bottom-up and top-down development of robot skills</a>, at ICAR, Istanbul, Turkey.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-07-31</td><td>Emre Ugur, Lorenzo Jamone, Yukie Nagai, and Erhan Oztop co-organize the <a href="http://emreugur.net/ICAR2015-WS-RobotLearning/">Workshop on
     Bottom-up and top-down development of robot skills</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-07-16</td><td>Emre Ugur gives an invited talk <i>Bootstrapping Concept Learning: From Simple to Complex
-    Affordances to Symbolic Planning</i>, <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/conferences/lrc2015/">Workshop
+    Affordances to Symbolic Planning</i> at <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/conferences/lrc2015/">Workshop
     on Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics</a>, at RSS, Rome, Italy.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-07-16</td><td>Justus Piater and Tamim Asfour co-organize the <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/conferences/lrc2015/">Workshop
-    on Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-05-30</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Robot vision in times of flight: RGB-D = red-green-blue is
+    on Learning Reusable Concepts in Robotics</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-06-03 – 2015-06-05</td><td>Safoura Rezapour contributes a talk <i>CPS: 3D Compositional Part Segmentation through Grasping</i> at <a href="http://www.computerrobotvision.org/2015/">12th Conference
-    dead?</i>, <a href="http://www.rhgm.org/activities/workshopicra15/">Workshop on
+    on Computer and Robot Vision</a>, Halifax, Nova Scotia.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-05-30</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Robot vision in times of flight: RGB-D = red-green-blue is
+    dead?</i> at <a href="http://www.rhgm.org/activities/workshopicra15/">Workshop on
     Robotic Hands, Grasping, and Manipulation</a>, at ICRA, Seattle, USA.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-05-04</td><td>Sebastian Stabinger appears in the media:
       Robotertechnik für Blinde: Interview with 20er about master project.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2015-02-06</td><td>Sebastian Stabinger appears in the media: <a href="http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2015/eine-kamera-als-sehhilfe.html.de">

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