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- | <HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2020-01-03</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz: Grundlagen, Erfolge, | + | <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 | ||
+ | 2023</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 & 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 "Making robots learn | ||
+ | to perceive and act with understanding". 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 "understanding" 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' "Cognition"</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 "Cognitive Robots" 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 & 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&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&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 | Herausforderungen</i> at 47. Tagung des Innsbrucker Kreises von MoraltheologInnen | ||
- | und SozialethikerInnen, Innsbruck.</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>.</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 | + | 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 | 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 | 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('newsitem15', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem15Abstract" style="display:none">A fundamental task of sensory processing is to detect | + | 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 | and integrate feature items to group them into perceptual units | ||
segregating them from other objects and the background. A | segregating them from other objects and the background. A | ||
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architecture composed of canonical circuit mechanisms can be | architecture composed of canonical circuit mechanisms can be | ||
mapped onto neuromorphic chip technology facilitating low-energy | 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('newsitem16', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem16Abstract" style="display:none">Humanoid robotics plays a central role in robotics | + | 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 | research as well as in understanding intelligence. Engineering | ||
humanoid robots that are able to learn from humans and | humanoid robots that are able to learn from humans and | ||
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learning actions from human observation and experience as well as | 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 | 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.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-11-18</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz in einer menschlichen | + | – 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 | Gesellschaft</i> at Robotik in Medizin und Pflege – Jubiläumssymposium | ||
des Klinischen Ethikkommittees, A.ö. Landeskrankenhaus – Universitätskliniken | 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 | 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 | Vehicles: perception, learning and decision making under | ||
- | real-world constraints. Is bio-inspiration helpful?</a>, Macau.</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 | + | 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 | die Geschichte einer gleichzeitigen Über- und Unterschätzung | ||
- | (eco.nova, in German)</a>.</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, | + | (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 & 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 | 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('newsitem26', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem26Abstract" style="display:none">I will present present a hierarchical reinforcement | + | 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 | learning agent that is intrinsically motivated to learn how to | ||
control its observation space in the fastest possible manner by | control its observation space in the fastest possible manner by | ||
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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, | 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 | 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('newsitem27', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem27Abstract" style="display:none">I am studying the question how robots can autonomously | + | 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 | develop skills. Considering children, it seems natural that they | ||
have their own agenda. They explore their environment in a playful | have their own agenda. They explore their environment in a playful | ||
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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 | 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 | Intelligenz und Robotik als theologisch-ethische | ||
- | Herausforderung</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2019-06-13</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz in einer menschlichen | + | 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 | 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 | Intelligenz und Robotik als theologisch-ethische | ||
- | Herausforderung</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</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>.</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 | + | 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 | 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 | </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 | 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 | 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.</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 | + | 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).</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&genericpageid=25174">GMAR Robotics Talk: Robotik in Fertigung, Montage und | + | 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&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&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&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>2019-01-10</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>High-Level, Skill-Based Robot Programming Using Autonomous | + | 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&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 | Playing and Autonomous Testing</i> at <a href="https://www.standort-tirol.at/page.cfm?vpath=veranstaltungen&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 | 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.</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 | + | 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('newsitem57', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem57Abstract" style="display:none">Current robot learning, and machine learning in general, | + | 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 | requires carefully-engineered setups (environments, objective | ||
functions, training data, etc.) for learning to succeed. | functions, training data, etc.) for learning to succeed. | ||
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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 | 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 | International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in | ||
- | Robotics</a>, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem62', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem62Abstract" style="display:none">Human-made objects are constructed with functional | + | 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 | parts. These are closely related to affordances; e.g., a handle | ||
is a part whose function is to be grasped and that affords | is a part whose function is to be grasped and that affords | ||
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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"> | 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 | Music Globe und Cubeat | ||
- | </a>.</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>2018-04-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Intelligente Roboter – Freund, Feind oder | + | </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 | 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 | 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 | – Wird der Mensch ersetzbar?, organized by the Faculty of Law and | ||
- | the European Law Students’ Association Austria</a> in 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"> | + | 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 | Roboter bauen? Ist ja kinderleicht | ||
- | </a>.</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 | + | </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>2017-12-13</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Build your own Mini Robot</i> at AK Informatiklehrer, Universität Innsbruck.</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 | + | 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 | der Tradition. Interview about Open Access publishing by Zukunft | ||
Forschung, the science and research magazine of the University of | 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 | 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 | 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.</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 | + | 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 | Challenges</i> at <a href="http://www.imol-conf.org/">The | ||
Third International Workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended | Third International Workshop on Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended | ||
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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 | 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 | 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> 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: | + | 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: |
- | 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.</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> 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 |
- | 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 - "König Laurins Rosengarten" - Open Air</i> at <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> 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&venue=Oort">Lorentz | + | 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 |
- | Workshop on Perspectives on Developmental Robotics</a>, Leiden, Netherlands.</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 - "König Laurins Rosengarten" - 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&venue=Oort">Lorentz |
+ | 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 | 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 | 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> 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 | 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 | 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> 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>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 | + | 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> 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 | + | 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.</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 (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 (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 | 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 | 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> 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 | + | 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> at <a href="http://www.cnr.osaka-u.ac.jp/?p=1707&lang=en">2nd | planning</i> at <a href="http://www.cnr.osaka-u.ac.jp/?p=1707&lang=en">2nd | ||
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 | 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 | ||
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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> at <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>2016-01-21</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 | + | 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.</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 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.</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 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.</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 | + | 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 | 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 | 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 |