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-<​HTML><​table><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2020-03-19</​td><​td>​Justus Piater gives an invited ​talk <i>Machine Learning in Robotics</i> at <a href="​https://​baiome.org/">bAIome PI Talk</​a>, ​Center for Biomedical AI at the University Medical Center +<​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 
-    Hamburg-Eppendorf. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem0',​ '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="​newsitem0Abstract"​ style="​display:​none">​Machine Learning increasingly equips ​robots ​with +    understanding</i> at <a href="​https://​www.uibk.ac.at/​en/​congress/​multibody2025/">The 
-    ​learning capabilities and flexibility This will enable them to +    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 
-    ​act purposefully ​in unstructured ​environments ​and to react to +    ​limited by their lack of understanding of their environmentFor 
-    ​unforeseen events ​People ​can teach them intuitively to perform +    ​this reason, most robots operate ​in controlled ​environments. 
-    ​tasks instead ​of having to program them in painstaking ways+    ​Machine learning can circumvent modeling problems but introduces 
-    ​Robots can learn from experience ​and can improve their behavior +    new problems of generalizing from examplesHow can robots acquire 
-    ​over time In this talk I will give an overview ​of methods+    ​understanding (of structure, function, causality, etc.) that 
-    ​opportunitiesand challenges ​of machine ​learning ​in +    ​allows them to generalize ​from sparse ​experience? Motivated by 
-    ​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 +    ​shortcomings of current machine-learning methods, I will argue 
-    ​„Primers for Predocs – Strategien für eine erfolgreiche +    that &​quot;​understanding&​quot;​ is a meaningful notion in AI that reaches 
-    Promotion“</​a>, ​Universität Heidelberg<span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)" onclick="​showHide('​newsitem2',​ '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="​newsitem2Abstract"​ style="​display:​none">​Massive availability of data and computing power are +    beyond prediction and control. I will discuss examples ​of our 
-    promoting data-driven methods in all areas of science and +    recent work on learning visual relational conceptsextrapolation 
-    technology. ​ I will describe how the University of Innsbruck +    ​of learned movements beyond the training distributionlearning ​of 
-    supports this via its new Digital Science Center, and will give a +    symbolic concepts and rules, and structure-driven skill learning 
-    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>​.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2020-01-03</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​gives an invited ​talk <i>Künstliche Intelligenz:​ GrundlagenErfolge, +    ​from sensorimotor experience. Our long-term objective is to 
-    Herausforderungen</i> at 47Tagung des Innsbrucker Kreises von MoraltheologInnen +    improve abstraction,​ generalization,​ robustness, and ultimately 
-    und SozialethikerInnenInnsbruck.</​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 +    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:​ 
-    Understand My Robot?</i> at <a href="http://www.trustrobots.eu/">TrustRobots Lecture series +    ​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 actionA 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 SoftwareRoboticsand 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</iat 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 
-    ​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 +    ​Seminar: AI in Law and Practice: Regional Perspectives on European 
-    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('​newsitem7', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" style="​display:​none">​A fundamental task of sensory processing is to detect +    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 <a href="​https://​www.tirol.gv.at/fileadmin/themen/bildung/medienzentrum/​downloads/​07_Magazin_Co/​2025_01.pdf">Lieber 
-    ​and integrate feature items to group them into perceptual units +    gleich berechtigt als später: Hallo KI, hilfst du uns bei der 
-    segregating them from other objects and the background+    Gleichstellung?​!</a>, 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 
-    framework is discussed which explains how perceptual grouping at +    ​auf maschinellem Lernen (ML) basierenDieser Workshop führt ​in 
-    early as well as higher-level cognitive stages may be implemented +    ​die Grundlagen des ML einmit besonderem Augenmerk auf neuronale 
-    ​in cortex. Different grouping mechanisms are implemented which are +    ​Netzeder derzeit populärsten ML-TechnologieDarauf aufbauend 
-    ​attuned to basic features and feature combinations and mainly +    ​vermittelt er ein Grundverständnis für prinzipielle Möglichkeiten 
-    evaluated along the forward sweep of stimulus processing. However+    ​und Grenzen von ML und warum es mit derzeitigen Mitteln extrem 
-    ​due to limitations of local feature detection mechanisms and +    ​schwierig istDiskriminierung ​in KI-Systemen zu 
-    inherent ambiguitiestop-down feedback is required to deliver +    ​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 InnsbruckUniversität 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 
-    contextual information helping to disambiguate initial +    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 
-    measurementsFeedback of contextual information is demonstrated +    ​flexibility ​and robustness of autonomous robots ​to the next level? 
-    ​to improve object recognition performance,​ stabilize learning of +    ​I argue that current AI methods are unlikely to get thereno 
-    ​object categories, and integrate multi-sensory representations. +    ​matter how far we scale them upRobots need to be able to 
- +    ​&​quot;​understand&​quot;​ their environment in ways that reach beyond 
-    The canonical principles of neural computation define a set of +    ​prediction ​and control. I will discuss examples of work (ours and 
-    core operations to implement above-mentioned mechanisms of +    ​others'​) on learning visual relational concepts, extrapolation of 
-    perceptual and cognitive inference. These operations can be +    learned movements beyond ​the training distribution,​ learning of 
-    ​mapped, in a simplified form, onto neuromorphic platforms to +    ​symbolic concepts ​and rulesand structure-driven skill learning 
-    emulate brain-like computation. It is demonstrated that an +    from sensorimotor ​experience.</​blockquote></​td></​tr></​table></​HTML>​
-    ​architecture composed of canonical circuit mechanisms can be +
-    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('​newsitem8', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem8Abstract" style="​display:​none">​Humanoid robotics plays a central role in robotics +
-    research as well as in understanding intelligence. Engineering +
-    humanoid robots that are able to learn from humans and +
-    sensorimotor experience, ​to predict ​the consequences of actions +
-    and exploit the interaction with the world to extend their +
-    ​cognitive horizon remains a research grand challenge. Currently+
-    we are experiencing AI systems with superhuman performance in +
-    games, image and speech processingHowever, the generation of +
-    robot behaviors with human-like motion intelligence and +
-    performance has yet to be achieved. In this talk, I will present +
-    ​recent progress towards engineering 24/7 humanoid robots ​that link +
-    ​perception ​and action to generate intelligent behavior. I will +
-    ​show the ARMAR humanoid robots performing complex grasping and +
-    ​manipulation tasks in kitchen ​and industrial environments+
-    ​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 +
-    – 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 +
-    Gesellschaft</​i>​ at Robotik in Medizin und Pflege – Jubiläumssymposium +
-    des Klinischen Ethikkommittees,​ A.ö. Landeskrankenhaus – Universitätskliniken +
-    Innsbruck.</​td></​tr></​table></​HTML>​+
  
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