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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! //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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-<​HTML><​table><​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 +<​HTML><​table><​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 
-    ​„Primers for Predocs – Strategien für eine erfolgreiche +    ​Science</​a>, ​Innsbruck. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem0',​ '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="​newsitem0Abstract"​ style="​display:​none">​Wouldn'​t it be great to have a helper robot that we can 
-    Promotion“</​a>, ​Universität Heidelberg. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem0',​ '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="​newsitem0Abstract"​ style="​display:​none">​Massive availability of data and computing power are +    ​task with our annoying chores? How would we teach the robot to 
-    ​promoting data-driven methods in all areas of science and +    ​perform these tasks? Can we build such robots by equipping them 
-    ​technology. ​ I will describe ​how the University of Innsbruck +    with artificial intelligence?​ We will discuss ​how human and 
-    ​supports ​this via its new Digital Science Centerand will give a +    ​machine learning differ and how this impacts what skills, 
-    ​flavor of machine learning for data analysis.</​blockquote></​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 +    including for communication,​ our helper robot will be able to 
-    ​Understand My Robot?</i> at <a href="http://www.trustrobots.eu/">​TrustRobots Lecture series +    ​learn.</​blockquote></​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 
-    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 +    ​Machines</i> at <a href="https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/ag-mueller/online-workshop-on-agency-life-and-creativity/">Workshop 
-    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('​newsitem3', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem3Abstract" style="​display:​none">​A fundamental task of sensory processing is to detect +    on “Agency, Life, and Creativity”</a>, online. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem1', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="​display:​none">​Humans constantly engage in creative activity such as 
-    ​and integrate feature items to group them into perceptual units +    ​finding explanations,​ improving technology, or solving novel 
-    ​segregating them from other objects and the backgroundA +    ​problems in everyday life. Even imitating ​other humans, e.g. while 
-    ​framework ​is discussed which explains how perceptual grouping at +    ​learning a new skill, ​is creative ​in that the imitator has to 
-    early as well as higher-level cognitive stages may be implemented +    ​infer the conceptual structure underlying ​the observed 
-    ​in cortex. Different grouping mechanisms are implemented which are +    ​manifestation and to regenerate the latter from the former. In 
-    attuned ​to basic features and feature combinations and mainly +    ​contrastcurrent AI-enabled agents are unable ​to generate and 
-    ​evaluated along the forward sweep of stimulus processing. However, +    ​draw upon such conceptual structuresTheir learning ​is mostly 
-    ​due to limitations of local feature detection mechanisms and +    ​driven by statisticsand any ability to produce novelty is 
-    ​inherent ambiguitiestop-down feedback is required ​to deliver +    ​largely limited to trial and errorI will try to characterize 
-    ​contextual information helping to disambiguate initial +    ​this fundamental difference between learning in human and 
-    measurementsFeedback of contextual information ​is demonstrated +    ​artificial agentsand will discuss possible technological 
-    ​to improve object recognition performancestabilize learning of +    ​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 
-    ​object categories, ​and integrate multi-sensory representations. +    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 
-    The canonical principles of neural computation define a set of +    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 ​talk <i>Digital Science at the University of Innsbruck</​i>​ at Aurora Research Conference Digital Society &amp; Global Citizenship,​ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem4',​ '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="​newsitem4Abstract"​ style="​display:​none">​Growing data processing capacities and progress ​in 
-    core operations ​to implement above-mentioned mechanisms of +    ​analytical methods and artificial ​intelligence ​are motivating 
-    ​perceptual ​and cognitive inference. These operations can be +    ​entire branches of science ​to raise new questions ​and to develop 
-    ​mappedin a simplified form, onto neuromorphic platforms to +    ​new approaches. This digital transformation requires progressive
-    ​emulate brain-like computation. It is demonstrated ​that an +    ​interdisciplinary synergies between the computational sciences ​and 
-    architecture composed of canonical circuit mechanisms can be +    ​all other scientific disciplines The Digital Science Center 
-    mapped onto neuromorphic chip technology facilitating low-energy +    ​(DiSC) at the University ​of Innsbruck meets this challenge by 
-    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('​newsitem4',​ '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="​newsitem4Abstract"​ style="​display:​none">​Humanoid robotics plays a central role in robotics +    ​integrating ​and promoting digitalisation of scientific research. 
-    ​research as well as in understanding ​intelligence. Engineering +    In this talk I will present ​some examples of interdisciplinary 
-    ​humanoid robots that are able to learn from humans ​and +    ​research by DiSC staff researchers who are experts ​in specific 
-    ​sensorimotor experienceto predict the consequences of actions +    ​aspects of digital science.</​blockquote></​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-08-24</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​contributes a lecture ​<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 BlankaInnsbruck.</​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 exploit the interaction with the world to extend their +    ​and Open Lab on Field Robotics - Interdisciplinary aspects of 
-    ​cognitive horizon remains a research grand challengeCurrently, +    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 
-    ​we are experiencing AI systems with superhuman performance in +    ​Talks</​a>, ​online.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-03-24</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​gives an invited lecture <​i>​Machine LearningPerceptionAnd Abstract Concepts</​i>​ at Invited lecture at Ontario Tech U, Canada, online. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem8',​ '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="​newsitem8Abstract"​ style="​display:none">​With every spectacular achievement of a machine learning 
-    games, image and speech processing. However, ​the generation ​of +    system, the long-elusive AI breakthrough is popularly proclaimed 
-    ​robot behaviors with human-like motion intelligence ​and +    to be just around the corner. ​ Most recent successes have been due 
-    ​performance has yet to be achieved. ​In this talkI will present +    ​in large part to massive data and computation,​ in particular using 
-    ​recent progress towards engineering 24/7 humanoid robots that link +    deep artificial neural networks. ​ But can artificial cognition 
-    perception and action to generate intelligent behavior. I will +    really be achieved just by further scaling up existing 
-    show the ARMAR humanoid robots performing complex grasping and +    machine-learning techniques? ​ I discuss examples of simple, 
-    manipulation tasks in kitchen and industrial environments,​ +    perceptual problems that are easily solved by humans but very 
-    ​learning actions from human observation and experience as well as +    difficult for today'​s machine learning methods. ​ These problems 
-    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 +    reflect how humans conceptualize their world. ​ Their mastery is 
-    – Creativity | Cognition | Computation</​a>, ​BolzanoItaly.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2019-11-18</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​gives an invited talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz in einer menschlichen +    thus likely to be an essential prerequisite for autonomous robots 
-    Gesellschaft</i> at Robotik in Medizin und Pflege – Jubiläumssymposium +    to attain higher levels of cognitive abilities. ​ To get there, a 
-    des Klinischen Ethikkommittees,​ A.öLandeskrankenhaus – Universitätskliniken +    few core issues can be identified that should drive research ​in 
-    ​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 +    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></​table></​HTML>​
-    ​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 Gschwandtnerand Simon Haller appear in the mediaÖsterreich-BildBits 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 mediaTV interview by ORF 2 Tirol Heute (in German).</​td></​tr></​table></​HTML>​+
  
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