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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>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>2025-11-19</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Structural Understanding – The Grand Challenge of Robot
-    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
+    Learning</i> at <a href="https://elliit.se/news-and-events/focus-period-lund-2025/symposium/">ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium: Robot Learning</a>, Lund University. (The ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium is the highlight of the five-week focus period, during which young international scholars, ELLIIT researchers and other well-established international academics gather in Lund to work together on joint research challenges.) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">AI has made great progress in recent years, and the
-    learning capabilities and flexibility.  This will enable them to
+    sophistication of robots has been rising with costs falling. Yet,
-    act purposefully in unstructured environments and to react to
+    the capabilities of AI-enabled robots are not keeping pace. I
-    unforeseen events.  People can teach them intuitively to perform
+    argue that this is due to a lack of structural understanding by
-    tasks instead of having to program them in painstaking ways.
+    current AI systems. I will discuss several lines of research in my
-    Robots can learn from experience and can improve their behavior
+    lab that seek to enable robots to generalize better and learn
-    over time.  In this talk I will give an overview of methods,
+    faster thanks to explicit notions of structure.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-09-18</td><td>Samuele Tosatto gives an invited keynote <i>Where are all the intelligent robots? A quest for efficiency in reinforcement learning</i> at <a href="https://sarl-plus.github.io/RL-Bootcamp2025/">Reinforcement Learning Bootcamp 2025</a>, Salzburg. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem1', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="display:none">As artificial intelligence reshapes our digital world at a breathtaking pace,
-    opportunities, and challenges of machine learning in
+    a curious question arises: Where are all the real-world, intelligent robots?
-    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
+    While we have mastered the generation of text, images, and video by leveraging vast web-scale datasets,
-    „Primers for Predocs – Strategien für eine erfolgreiche
+    robotics still faces a fundamental data bottleneck. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a compelling solution,
-    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
+    enabling agents to learn autonomously by collecting their own experience.
-    promoting data-driven methods in all areas of science and
+    However, the path to autonomy is often blocked by the staggering inefficiency of current RL algorithms,
-    technology.  I will describe how the University of Innsbruck
+    which can require millions of trials to master simple tasks. This talk embarks on a quest to tackle this
-    supports this via its new Digital Science Center, and will give a
+    efficiency problem head-on. I will argue that a crucial step toward unlocking the potential of
-    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: Grundlagen, Erfolge,
+    robot learning lies in a two-pronged approach: first, by developing statistically efficient
-    Herausforderungen</i> at 47. Tagung des Innsbrucker Kreises von MoraltheologInnen
+    algorithms that can reuse data by leveraging sound off-policy techniques, and second,
-    und SozialethikerInnen, Innsbruck.</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
+    by designing better action representations for physical, real-world agents.
-    Understand My Robot?</i> at <a href="http://www.trustrobots.eu/">TrustRobots Lecture series
+    By making our algorithms more efficient and refining their core hypotheses,
-    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
+    we can accelerate the journey toward real embodied artificial intelligence.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-07-15</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>Making robots learn to perceive and act with
-    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
+    understanding</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/multibody2025/">The
-    and integrate feature items to group them into perceptual units
+th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem2', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem2Abstract" style="display:none">The flexibility and robustness of current robots is
-    segregating them from other objects and the background. A
+    limited by their lack of understanding of their environment. For
-    framework is discussed which explains how perceptual grouping at
+    this reason, most robots operate in controlled environments.
-    early as well as higher-level cognitive stages may be implemented
+    Machine learning can circumvent modeling problems but introduces
-    in cortex. Different grouping mechanisms are implemented which are
+    new problems of generalizing from examples. How can robots acquire
-    attuned to basic features and feature combinations and mainly
+    understanding (of structure, function, causality, etc.) that
-    evaluated along the forward sweep of stimulus processing. However,
+    allows them to generalize from sparse experience? Motivated by
-    due to limitations of local feature detection mechanisms and
+    shortcomings of current machine-learning methods, I will argue
-    inherent ambiguities, top-down feedback is required to deliver
+    that &quot;understanding&quot; is a meaningful notion in AI that reaches
-    contextual information helping to disambiguate initial
+    beyond prediction and control. I will discuss examples of our
-    measurements. Feedback of contextual information is demonstrated
+    recent work on learning visual relational concepts, extrapolation
-    to improve object recognition performance, stabilize learning of
+    of learned movements beyond the training distribution, learning of
-    object categories, and integrate multi-sensory representations.
+    symbolic concepts and rules, and structure-driven skill learning
+    from sensorimotor experience. Our long-term objective is to
-    The canonical principles of neural computation define a set of
+    improve abstraction, generalization, robustness, and ultimately
-    core operations to implement above-mentioned mechanisms of
+    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:
-    perceptual and cognitive inference. These operations can be
+    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
-    mapped, in a simplified form, onto neuromorphic platforms to
+    Seminar: AI in Law and Practice: Regional Perspectives on European
-    emulate brain-like computation. It is demonstrated that an
+    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
-    architecture composed of canonical circuit mechanisms can be
+    gleich berechtigt als später: Hallo KI, hilfst du uns bei der
-    mapped onto neuromorphic chip technology facilitating low-energy
+    Gleichstellung?!</a>, Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof Vill. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem8', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem8Abstract" style="display:none">Künstliche Intelligenz&quot; bezeichnet derzeit Systeme, die
-    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
+    auf maschinellem Lernen (ML) basieren. Dieser Workshop führt in
-    research as well as in understanding intelligence. Engineering
+    die Grundlagen des ML ein, mit besonderem Augenmerk auf neuronale
-    humanoid robots that are able to learn from humans and
+    Netze, der derzeit populärsten ML-Technologie. Darauf aufbauend
-    sensorimotor experience, to predict the consequences of actions
+    vermittelt er ein Grundverständnis für prinzipielle Möglichkeiten
-    and exploit the interaction with the world to extend their
+    und Grenzen von ML und warum es mit derzeitigen Mitteln extrem
-    cognitive horizon remains a research grand challenge. Currently,
+    schwierig ist, Diskriminierung in KI-Systemen zu
-    we are experiencing AI systems with superhuman performance in
+    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></table></HTML>
-    games, image and speech processing. However, 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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