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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. | ||
| - | {{::iis-2017.jpg?570|Group Picture}}\\ | + | <html><!--We currently have [[jobs|one open PhD position]].--></html> |
| - | Group picture taken at our retreat in Obergurgl | + | |
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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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| - | ===== Working With Us ===== | + | {{ ::iis_retreat_2024.jpg?direct&900 |}}\\ |
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| - | Check our thesis topics for [[theses/start|Bachelor and Master students]]. | + | <div style="text-align: center;"> |
| + | <p>Group picture taken at our 2024 retreat at Meissner Haus.</p> | ||
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| ===== News ===== | ===== News ===== | ||
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the [[http://soma-summerschool.dlr.de/|SoMa Summer School on Soft Manipulation]] in July 2017. | + | <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 |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[http://mlhlcr2016.tanichu.com//|Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics]] at [[http://www.iros2016.org/|IROS]] in October 2016. | + | understanding</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/multibody2025/">The |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the NII Shonan Meeting on [[http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/blog/2015/10/31/cognitive-development-and-symbol-emergence-in-humans-and-robots/| Cognitive Development and Symbol Emergence in Humans and Robots]] in October 2016, in Japan. | + | 12th 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 |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited speaker** at the workshop on [[https://robo21century.physik3.gwdg.de/|Robotics in the 21st century: Challenges and Promises]] in September 2016. | + | limited by their lack of understanding of their environment. For |
| - | * Justus Piater is an **invited Speaker** at the international conference on [[https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/agency-and-physics/events/aqpic.html|Agency and (Quantum) Physics]] in September 2016. | + | this reason, most robots operate in controlled environments. |
| - | * Emre Ugur is an **invited speakers** at the workshop on [[http://www.bootstrapping-manipulation.com/|Bootstrapping Manipulation Skills]] at [[http://www.roboticsconference.org/|RSS]] in June 2016. | + | Machine learning can circumvent modeling problems but introduces |
| - | * Emre Ugur is co-organizing **Shonan Meeting** on [[http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/blog/2015/10/31/cognitive-development-and-symbol-emergence-in-humans-and-robots/| Cognitive Development and Symbol Emergence in Humans and Robots]], with Tadahiro Taniguchi and George Konidaris, in October 2016, in Japan. | + | new problems of generalizing from examples. How can robots acquire |
| - | * Emre Ugur is an **invited speaker** at the [[http://www.cnr.osaka-u.ac.jp/?p=1707&lang=en | 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics]] in February 2016, in Osaka, Japan. | + | understanding (of structure, function, causality, etc.) that |
| + | allows them to generalize from sparse experience? Motivated by | ||
| + | shortcomings of current machine-learning methods, I will argue | ||
| + | that "understanding" is a meaningful notion in AI that reaches | ||
| + | beyond prediction and control. I will discuss examples of our | ||
| + | recent work 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. 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" 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 | ||
| + | "understand" 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> | ||
| [[news|Older News]] | [[news|Older News]] | ||
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| - | ===== Press ===== | ||
| - | * [[http://derstandard.at/2000035773928/Wie-Robin-gelernt-hat-einen-Turm-zu-bauen|Wie Robin gelernt hat, einen Turm zu bauen]] - Der Standard (May 1, 2016) | ||
| - | * ORF, Austria's public TV and radio service, reports on our work in the context of the [[http://xperience.org/|Xperience]] and [[http://www.squirrel-project.eu/|SQUIRREL]] projects (21.4.2016, in German): | ||
| - | * [[http://oe1.orf.at/programm/434380|Ö1 Wissen aktuell]] (radio) | ||
| - | * [[http://tvthek.orf.at/program/Tirol-heute/70023/Tirol-heute/12501058/Lernen-wie-ein-Kind-Lange-Nacht-der-Forschung/12506816|Tirol heute]] (TV) | ||
| - | * [[http://tirol.orf.at/news/stories/2769952/|tirol.orf.at News]] (text + teaser video) | ||
| - | * [[https://iis.uibk.ac.at/_media/public/16042016news_zech_lnf_full.pdf | Hier sind die Roboter]] - News (April 16, 2016, in German) | ||
| - | * [[http://www.tt.com/panorama/11075798-91/fast-wie-science-fiction-ein-roboter-der-lernt-wie-ein-kind.csp|Fast wie Science Fiction: Ein Roboter, der lernt wie ein Kind]] - Tiroler Tageszeitung (February 3, 2016, in German) features [[@/public/emre/research.html|Emre Ugur's work on stacked learning]]. | ||
| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2015/eine-kamera-als-sehhilfe.html.de|Eine Kamera als Sehhilfe]] ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/|iPoint]] 06.02.2015, in German) | ||
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| - | <a href="#tiroltvvideo">Robotik an der Uni Innsbruck - TirolTV vom 1 Dezember 2014<span id="tiroltvvideo"><span> | ||
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| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/blog/1135417.html|Roboter, die von Menschen lernen]] - ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/|iPoint]] 03.01.2014, in German) | ||
| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2012/vom-gehirn-lernen.html.en|Learning from the Brain]] - UIBK news 21/11/2012 reports on 2DSIL, a biologically-inspired model of shape representation. | ||
| - | * [[http://20er.at/|Stille Welt - Gehörlos in Tirol]] - the Tyrolean street newspaper reports on the [[http://www.signspeak.eu/|SignSpeak]] project. ([[http://20er.at/|20er]], pp. 6-7, April 2012, in German) | ||
| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/public-relations/medien/wissenswert/wissenswert18.pdf|Übersetzungslücken schließen]] - the UIBK supplement to an Austrian newspaper reports on our [[http://www.signspeak.eu/|SignSpeak]] project ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/public-relations/medien/wissenswert/|wissenswert]] 18 pp. 16-17, February 2012, in German) | ||
| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/news/2011/schlaue-roboter-im-haushalt.html.de|Schlaue Roboter im Haushalt]] ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/ipoint/|iPoint]] 13.04.2011, in German) | ||
| - | * [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/5/artikel/neuberufung.pdf|Roboter lernen lernen]] ([[http://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/|zukunft forschung]] [[http://www.uibk.ac.at/forschung/magazin/5/|2/2010]], in German) | ||
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