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-Group picture taken at our 2022 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>2024-05-28</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited colloquium <i>Making robots learn to perceive and act with
+<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
-    understanding</i> at <a href="https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche-fakultaet/fachbereiche/zentren/cognitive-science-in-tuebingen/colloquia/cognitive-science-colloquium/">Cognitive Science Colloquium</a>, Universität Tübingen. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">The title of this talk is the motto of my Intelligent
+    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
-    and Interactive Systems group at the University of Innsbruck. Our
+    sophistication of robots has been rising with costs falling. Yet,
-    long-term objective is to improve abstraction, generalization,
+    the capabilities of AI-enabled robots are not keeping pace. I
-    robustness, and ultimately explainability of robot perception and
+    argue that this is due to a lack of structural understanding by
-    action. Motivated by shortcomings of current machine-learning
+    current AI systems. I will discuss several lines of research in my
-    methods, I will argue that &quot;understanding&quot; is a meaningful notion
+    lab that seek to enable robots to generalize better and learn
-    in AI that reaches beyond prediction and control. I will discuss
+    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,
-    examples of our recent work on learning visual relational
+    a curious question arises: Where are all the real-world, intelligent robots?
-    concepts, extrapolation of learned movements beyond the training
+    While we have mastered the generation of text, images, and video by leveraging vast web-scale datasets,
-    distribution, learning of symbolic concepts and rules, and
+    robotics still faces a fundamental data bottleneck. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a compelling solution,
-    structure-driven skill learning from sensorimotor
+    enabling agents to learn autonomously by collecting their own experience.
-    experience.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-04-25</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>Generative KI: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen</i> at <a href="https://efuture-day.tsn.at/programm">eFuture-Day
+    However, the path to autonomy is often blocked by the staggering inefficiency of current RL algorithms,
-    Sek. 1</a>, Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem2', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem2Abstract" style="display:none">Generative KI-Systeme wie ChatGPT und Midjourney haben
+    which can require millions of trials to master simple tasks. This talk embarks on a quest to tackle this
-    im Laufe des letzten Jahres begonnen, unsere Welt zu verändern.
+    efficiency problem head-on. I will argue that a crucial step toward unlocking the potential of
-    Wie können wir sie produktiv nutzen? Wie können wir mit den
+    robot learning lies in a two-pronged approach: first, by developing statistically efficient
-    Herausforderungen umgehen, die durch sie entstehen? Ich werde
+    algorithms that can reuse data by leveraging sound off-policy techniques, and second,
-    diese Fragen von der technischen Seite her angehen und einen
+    by designing better action representations for physical, real-world agents.
-    Eindruck davon vermitteln, wie diese Systeme funktionieren. Daraus
+    By making our algorithms more efficient and refining their core hypotheses,
-    ergeben sich ein realistisches Verständnis für ihre Möglichkeiten
+    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
-    und Grenzen sowie einige grundlegende Empfehlungen für den Umgang
+    understanding</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/multibody2025/">The
-    mit ihnen im Schulbetrieb.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-04-24</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>Generative KI: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen</i> at <a href="https://efuture-day-sek2.tsn.at/programm">eFuture-Day
+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
-    Sek. 2</a>, Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem3', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem3Abstract" style="display:none">Generative KI-Systeme wie ChatGPT und Midjourney haben
+    limited by their lack of understanding of their environment. For
-    im Laufe des letzten Jahres begonnen, unsere Welt zu verändern.
+    this reason, most robots operate in controlled environments.
-    Wie können wir sie produktiv nutzen? Wie können wir mit den
+    Machine learning can circumvent modeling problems but introduces
-    Herausforderungen umgehen, die durch sie entstehen? Ich werde
+    new problems of generalizing from examples. How can robots acquire
-    diese Fragen von der technischen Seite her angehen und einen
+    understanding (of structure, function, causality, etc.) that
-    Eindruck davon vermitteln, wie diese Systeme funktionieren. Daraus
+    allows them to generalize from sparse experience? Motivated by
-    ergeben sich ein realistisches Verständnis für ihre Möglichkeiten
+    shortcomings of current machine-learning methods, I will argue
-    und Grenzen sowie einige grundlegende Empfehlungen für den Umgang
+    that &quot;understanding&quot; is a meaningful notion in AI that reaches
-    mit ihnen im Schulbetrieb.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-04-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Möglichkeiten der KI bei klangrelevanten Arbeitsschritten
+    beyond prediction and control. I will discuss examples of our
-    im Fertigungsprozess</i> at Digitalwissenschaftlicher Bildungsnachmittag, Musikinstrumentenbauschule Mittenwald.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-26</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://airov.at/">AIRoV – The First Austrian
+    recent work on learning visual relational concepts, extrapolation
-    Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision 26.–27.3.2024</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-21</td><td>Simon Haller-Seeber, Christopher Kelter, and Patrick Hofmann 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>2024-03-14</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>The IMAGINE Project: Robot Intuition and Understanding for
+    of learned movements beyond the training distribution, learning of
-    Disassembly</i> at <a href="https://reconcycle.eu/erf2024/">Adaptive Robotics for
+    symbolic concepts and rules, and structure-driven skill learning
-    Recycling of Electronic Devices</a>, Rimini, Italy. (Workshop at the European Robotics Forum)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-03-14</td><td>Justus Piater co-organizes the <a href="https://reconcycle.eu/erf2024/">Adaptive Robotics for
+    from sensorimotor experience. Our long-term objective is to
-    Recycling of Electronic Devices</a>.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-01-16</td><td>Samuele Tosatto gives an invited talk <i>Beyond Monte Carlo Off-Policy Policy Gradient</i> at <a href="https://www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/conferences/rl-2024">Mini-Workshop on Reinforcement Learning</a>, University of Mannheim.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2023-12-01</td><td>Justus Piater is a panelist at a public discussion on <a href="https://www.mediengipfel.at/at/archiv/veranstaltungen/2023.php">15.
+    improve abstraction, generalization, robustness, and ultimately
-    Europäischer Mediengipfel</a>, Lech/Arlberg. (Wissenschaftsforum zum Thema „Künstliche Intelligenz – Fluch oder Segen für Politik, Medien, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft?)</td></tr></table></HTML>
+    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 <a href="https://www.tirol.gv.at/fileadmin/themen/bildung/medienzentrum/downloads/07_Magazin_Co/2025_01.pdf">Lieber
+    gleich berechtigt als später: Hallo KI, hilfst du uns bei der
+    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
+    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></table></HTML>
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