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 ===== Working With Us =====
+  * Check our thesis topics for [[theses/start|Bachelor and Master students]].
+  * [[:jobs:#notice_for_non-eueea_prospective_master_students|Notice]] for non-[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU|EU]]/[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area|EEA]] prospective Master students
+  * We currently do not have any open PhD positions.
-  * We are hiring an **Assistant Professor (with Tenure-Track Option)** of Computer Science in [[jobs|Embodied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning]].  Applications must be received by August 29, 2018.
+<html><!--We currently have [[jobs|one open PhD position]].--></html>
-  * Check our thesis topics for [[theses/start|Bachelor and Master students]].
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+//Bachelor students://{{ ::mobile-manipulator-crop.jpg?nolink&100|}} **Want to create artificial intelligence for autonomous robots?** Want to join our [[@/uibk/piater/courses/RC_Poster2.pdf |interdisciplinary LFUI team]] to compete in the 2020 [[https://www.robocup.org/leagues/16|RoboCup@Work]] competition? Take the [[https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/lfuonline_lv.details?sem_id_in=19W&lvnr_id_in=703135|Introduction to Robotics]] course in the winter semester 2019-20!
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-Group picture taken at our retreat in Obergurgl
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+  <p>Group picture taken at our 2024 retreat at Meissner Haus.</p>
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 ===== News =====
-<HTML><table><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
+<HTML><table><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-15</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>Making robots learn to perceive and act with
-    International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in
+    understanding</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/multibody2025/">The
-    Robotics</a>.</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">
+th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">The flexibility and robustness of current robots is
-    Roboter zu Besuch in Liechtenstein
+    limited by their lack of understanding of their environment. For
-    </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>, Campustag BORG Schwaz, Universität Innsbruck.</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>, <a href="https://afford.gitlab.io/rss-workshop/">1st
+    this reason, most robots operate in controlled environments.
-    International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in
+    Machine learning can circumvent modeling problems but introduces
-    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">
+    new problems of generalizing from examples. How can robots acquire
-    Music Globe und Cubeat
+    understanding (of structure, function, causality, etc.) that
-    </a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2018-06-12</td><td>Simon Haller teaches a tutorial <i>Robotics im Klassenzimmer</i>, <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
+    allows them to generalize from sparse experience? Motivated by
-    Hirngespinst?</i>, <a href="http://www.wissensdurst-festival.at/innsbruck18-di-machine">Popular
+    shortcomings of current machine-learning methods, I will argue
-    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
+    that &quot;understanding&quot; is a meaningful notion in AI that reaches
-    – Wird der Mensch ersetzbar?, organized by the Faculty of Law and
+    beyond prediction and control. I will discuss examples of our
-    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">
+    recent work on learning visual relational concepts, extrapolation
-      Roboter bauen? Ist ja kinderleicht
+    of learned movements beyond the training distribution, learning of
-    </a>.</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>, Campustag BG/BRG Sillgasse, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr></table></HTML>
+    symbolic concepts and rules, and structure-driven skill learning
+    from sensorimotor experience. Our long-term objective is to
+    improve abstraction, generalization, robustness, and ultimately
+    explainability of robot perception and action.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-11</td><td>Justus Piater and Alejandro Agostini give an invited talk <i>Learning Symbols and Abstractions in Robot Planning</i> at <a href="https://www.unibz.it/en/events/abstraction-language-science-engineering">Abstraction:
+    Language - Science - Engineering</a>, Bolzano. (International Workshop)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-25</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited talk <i>AI-powered tools for real-time transcription and translation in action: A self-hosted open-source framework for digital spaces.</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/medien/veranstaltungen/tagungen/medien-wissen-bildung-2025/">Medien - Wissen - Bildung 2025: Streifzüge an den Nahtstellen von Medien, Bildung und Philosophie</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber gives an invited keynote <i>Hands-on Approaches to Software, Robotics, and AI: Exploring Experiments and Science in Action</i> at <a href="https://iis.uibk.ac.at/public/simon/ECER-2025/">European Conference on Educational Robotics (ECER 2025)</a>, HTL Anichstrasse.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-04-10</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter 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>2025-04-03</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>What is AI really?</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/events/2025/04/03/ai-in-law-and-practice-regional-perspectives-on-european-rules">Cross-Border
+    Seminar: AI in Law and Practice: Regional Perspectives on European
+    Rules</a>, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-03-06</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Funktionsweise, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von KI</i> at Lieber gleich berechtigt als später: Hallo KI, hilfst du
+    uns bei der Gleichstellung?!, Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof Vill. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem6', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem6Abstract" style="display:none">Künstliche Intelligenz&quot; bezeichnet derzeit Systeme, die
+    auf maschinellem Lernen (ML) basieren. Dieser Workshop führt in
+    die Grundlagen des ML ein, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf neuronale
+    Netze, der derzeit populärsten ML-Technologie. Darauf aufbauend
+    vermittelt er ein Grundverständnis für prinzipielle Möglichkeiten
+    und Grenzen von ML und warum es mit derzeitigen Mitteln extrem
+    schwierig ist, Diskriminierung in KI-Systemen zu
+    verhindern.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber and Christopher Kelter teach a tutorial <i>Programmieren eines autonomen Roboters anhand einer selbstentwickelten KI</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-02-26</td><td>Marko Zarić teaches a tutorial <i>Einführung in das Programmieren mit Microcontrollern</i> at STAIR-Lab INNALP Workshop für das Gymnasium Ursulinenen Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-31</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>High-Level AI For Autonomous Robots</i> at <a href="https://elias-ai.eu/event/ellis-vismac/">ELIAS-ELLIS-VISMAC
+    Winter School 2025</a>, Brunico, Italy. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem9', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem9Abstract" style="display:none">What barriers will have to be overcome to raise the
+    flexibility and robustness of autonomous robots to the next level?
+    I argue that current AI methods are unlikely to get there, no
+    matter how far we scale them up. Robots need to be able to
+    &quot;understand&quot; their environment in ways that reach beyond
+    prediction and control. I will discuss examples of work (ours and
+    others') on learning visual relational concepts, extrapolation of
+    learned movements beyond the training distribution, learning of
+    symbolic concepts and rules, and structure-driven skill learning
+    from sensorimotor experience.</blockquote></td></tr></table></HTML>
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