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-<​HTML><​table><​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,+<​HTML><​table><tr valign="​top"><​td>​2019-11-18</​td><​td>​Justus Piater gives an invited talk <​i>​Künstliche Intelligenz in einer menschlichen 
 +    Gesellschaft</​i>​ at Robotik in Medizin und Pflege – Jubiläumssymposium 
 +    des Klinischen Ethikkommittees,​ A.ö. Landeskrankenhaus – Universitätskliniken 
 +    Innsbruck.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2019-11-08</​td><​td>​Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>AI Transparency in Autonomous Vehicles</​i>​ at <a href="​https://​cogvehicles2019.github.io/">​Towards Cognitive 
 +    Vehicles: perception, learning and decision making under 
 +    real-world constraints. Is bio-inspiration helpful?</​a>,​ Macau.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2019-11-03</​td><​td>​Justus Piater, Philipp Gschwandtner,​ and Simon Haller appear in the media: Österreich-Bild:​ Bits und Berge - 350 Jahre Forschung in Innsbruck; TV Documentary by ORF 2 (in German).</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2019-10-23</​td><​td>​Simon Haller appears in the media: TV interview by ORF 2 Tirol Heute (in German).</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2019-10-11</​td><​td>​Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="​https://​issuu.com/​eco.nova/​docs/​eco_06_2019_issuu/​24">​KI oder 
 +    die Geschichte einer gleichzeitigen Über- und Unterschätzung 
 +    (eco.nova, in German)</​a>​.</​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('​newsitem11', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem11Abstract" 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('​newsitem19', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem19Abstract" 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('​newsitem12', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem12Abstract" 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('​newsitem20', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem20Abstract" 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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     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</​td><​td>​Philipp Zech and Erwan Renaudo co-organize the <a href="​https://​r1d1.github.io/​iwcmar/">​2nd International+    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
     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 ​
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     Playing and Autonomous Testing</​i>​ at <a href="​https://​www.standort-tirol.at/​page.cfm?​vpath=veranstaltungen&​amp;​genericpageid=23118">​Taste Digitalization – CAMPUS:​digi:​TOUR (4)</​a>,​ ICT, Universität Innsbruck.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2018-10-05</​td><​td>​Justus Piater gives an invited talk <​i>​Perception of Abstract Concepts</​i>​ at <a href="​http://​iros2018-uvsp.org/">​Unconventional Sensing and     Playing and Autonomous Testing</​i>​ at <a href="​https://​www.standort-tirol.at/​page.cfm?​vpath=veranstaltungen&​amp;​genericpageid=23118">​Taste Digitalization – CAMPUS:​digi:​TOUR (4)</​a>,​ ICT, Universität Innsbruck.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2018-10-05</​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.</​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.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2018-07-17</​td><​td>​Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz appear in the media: <a href="​https://​www.uibk.ac.at/​informatik/​news/​medienspiegel/​nachlesen/​2018_07_17_roboter_zu_besuch_in_liechtenstein-liechtensteiner-vaterland.pdf">​+    on Quantum Machine Learning Plus</​a>,​ Innsbruck, Austria. ​<span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem49',​ '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="​newsitem49Abstract"​ style="​display:​none">​Current robot learning, and machine learning in general, 
 +    requires carefully-engineered setups (environments,​ objective 
 +    functions, training data, etc.) for learning to succeed. 
 +    Perception and action spaces are specially crafted to meet the 
 +    requirements of the learning objective, which is specified in 
 +    advance. ​ How can we construct robot learning systems that can 
 +    learn in an open-ended fashion, acquire skills not foreseen by its 
 +    designers, and scale up to virtually unlimited levels of 
 +    complexity? ​ I argue that a key to achieving this lies in the 
 +    robot'​s ability to learn abstract concepts that can be reused as a 
 +    basis for future learning, both in autonomous exploration and for 
 +    teaching by humans.</​blockquote>​</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2018-07-17</​td><​td>​Simon Haller and Nicolas Stolz appear in the media: <a href="​https://​www.uibk.ac.at/​informatik/​news/​medienspiegel/​nachlesen/​2018_07_17_roboter_zu_besuch_in_liechtenstein-liechtensteiner-vaterland.pdf">​
     Roboter zu Besuch in Liechtenstein     Roboter zu Besuch in Liechtenstein
     </​a>​.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2018-07-03</​td><​td>​Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <​i>​Wie kann ein Roboter lernen, die Welt zu verstehen?</​i>​ at Campustag BORG Schwaz, Universität Innsbruck.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2018-06-30</​td><​td>​Philipp Zech, Barry Ridge, and Emre Ugur co-organize the <a href="​https://​afford.gitlab.io/​rss-workshop/">​1st     </​a>​.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2018-07-03</​td><​td>​Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <​i>​Wie kann ein Roboter lernen, die Welt zu verstehen?</​i>​ at Campustag BORG Schwaz, Universität Innsbruck.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2018-06-30</​td><​td>​Philipp Zech, Barry Ridge, and Emre Ugur co-organize the <a href="​https://​afford.gitlab.io/​rss-workshop/">​1st
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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.</​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">​+    Robotics</​a>,​ Pittsburgh, PA, USA. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem54',​ '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="​newsitem54Abstract"​ style="​display:​none">​Human-made objects are constructed with functional 
 +    parts. ​ These are closely related to affordances;​ e.g., a handle 
 +    is a part whose function is to be grasped and that affords 
 +    grasping. ​ It is these affordances that robots need to detect to 
 +    perform tasks flexibly using unknown objects. ​ Since affordances 
 +    are often associated with parts, it makes sense for the 
 +    segmentation of unknown objects into parts for affordance 
 +    detection to be driven by known affordances. ​ Then, the 
 +    suitability of an object for a given task is often characterized 
 +    by the combination of the actions its various parts afford. For 
 +    example, to drive a nail into the wall you would like an object 
 +    that possesses a part that affords pounding and another that 
 +    affords grasping. ​ I will discuss methods that allow robots to 
 +    learn to segment objects in terms of their affordances,​ and to 
 +    learn the suitability of objects for specific tasks as a function 
 +    of their combination of affordances.</​blockquote>​</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2018-06-12</​td><​td>​Justus Piater, Simon Haller, and Olaf Köhler appear in the media: <a href="​https://​www.uibk.ac.at/​newsroom/​music-globe-und-cubeat.html.de">​
     Music Globe und Cubeat     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>​.</​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
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     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.</​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.</​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</​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.</​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
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