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 ===== News =====
-<HTML><table><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
+<HTML><table><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('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">As artificial intelligence reshapes our digital world at a breathtaking pace,
-    uns bei der Gleichstellung?!, Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof Vill. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem0', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract" style="display:none">Künstliche Intelligenz&quot; bezeichnet derzeit Systeme, die
+    a curious question arises: Where are all the real-world, intelligent robots?
+    While we have mastered the generation of text, images, and video by leveraging vast web-scale datasets,
+    robotics still faces a fundamental data bottleneck. Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a compelling solution,
+    enabling agents to learn autonomously by collecting their own experience.
+    However, the path to autonomy is often blocked by the staggering inefficiency of current RL algorithms,
+    which can require millions of trials to master simple tasks. This talk embarks on a quest to tackle this
+    efficiency problem head-on. I will argue that a crucial step toward unlocking the potential of
+    robot learning lies in a two-pronged approach: first, by developing statistically efficient
+    algorithms that can reuse data by leveraging sound off-policy techniques, and second,
+    by designing better action representations for physical, real-world agents.
+    By making our algorithms more efficient and refining their core hypotheses,
+    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
+    understanding</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/multibody2025/">The
+th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics</a>, Innsbruck. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem1', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="display:none">The flexibility and robustness of current robots is
+    limited by their lack of understanding of their environment. For
+    this reason, most robots operate in controlled environments.
+    Machine learning can circumvent modeling problems but introduces
+    new problems of generalizing from examples. How can robots acquire
+    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 &quot;understanding&quot; 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 <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('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" 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
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     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>2025-01-31</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
+    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></table></HTML>
-    Winter School 2025</a>, Brunico, Italy. <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem1', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" 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
-    &quot;understand&quot; 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><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <i>Generative Künstliche Intelligenz: Funktion, Fähigkeiten
-    und Fallen</i> at <a href="https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/lfuonline_lv.details?sem_id_in=24W&amp;lvnr_id_in=720453">VO
-Spezielle Themen der Persönlichkeits- und Differentiellen
-    Psychologie</a>, Universität Innsbruck. (Gastvorlesung)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2025-01-22</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>Was heißt hier KI?</i> at <a href="https://www.frauengesundheitscenter.at/seminar-3.html">Kontroversen
-    in Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe</a>, Zürs am Arlberg.</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-12-06</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>2025: Was bringt die Technik Neues?</i> at <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/events/info/2024/waike-up-kaffee-mit-ki/">wAIke
-    Up: Kaffee mit KI</a>, Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Universität Innsbruck. (Kurzvortrag)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-11-21</td><td>Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez teaches a tutorial <i>Neural Networks for Generative AI und
-    Biologically-Plausible Neural Networks</i> at <a href="https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/5129231">FFG-Innovationscamp
-    BioGenDesKI – Bioinspiriertes &amp; generatives Design</a>, online. (Tutorial)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-11-20</td><td>Justus Piater teaches a tutorial <i>Introduction to Neural Networks; Attention-based and
-    Multi-Modal Neural Networks</i> at <a href="https://projekte.ffg.at/projekt/5129231">FFG-Innovationscamp
-    BioGenDesKI – Bioinspiriertes &amp; generatives Design</a>, online. (Zwei Tutorials)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-11-11</td><td>Justus Piater gives an invited keynote <i>Generative KI: Funktionsweise, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen</i> at <a href="https://www.ph-tirol.ac.at/ki-impulsreihe">KI in der Berufsbildung – Herausforderungen und Chancen</a>, online. (Online-Impulsreihe der Pädagogischen Hochschule Tirol) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem7', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem7Abstract" style="display:none">Generative KI-Systeme wie ChatGPT und Midjourney haben
-    im Laufe des letzten Jahres begonnen, unsere Welt zu verändern.
-    Wie können wir sie produktiv nutzen? Wie können wir mit den
-    Herausforderungen umgehen, die durch sie entstehen? Ich werde
-    diese Fragen von der technischen Seite her angehen und einen
-    Eindruck davon vermitteln, wie diese Systeme funktionieren. Daraus
-    ergeben sich ein realistisches Verständnis für ihre Möglichkeiten
-    und Grenzen sowie einige grundlegende Empfehlungen für den Umgang
-    mit ihnen im Schulbetrieb.</blockquote></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-10-19</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://www.tiroltoday.at/beitrag/nextgen-kuenstliche-intelligenz-ki/">Künstliche
-    Intelligenz</a>. (Interview im Rahmen der Sendereihe NextGen auf Tirol TV)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td>2024-09-22</td><td>Justus Piater appears in the media: <a href="https://www.rainews.it/tgr/tagesschau/audio/2024/09/ist-kunstliche-intelligenz-dumm-3fd3b8d6-7234-4c46-8796-cf4f9ae63a40.html">Wie
-    gefährlich ist künstliche Intelligenz?</a>. (Radio-Interview in der Reihe „Wissenschaft und Technik – Wissen am Samstag“ auf RAI Südtirol) <span class="actions"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="showHide('newsitem9', 'Abstract')">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem9Abstract" style="display:none">Wie denkt KI? Ist sie bald dem Menschen überlegen? Kann
-    sie vielleicht sogar die Menschheit auslöschen?</blockquote></td></tr></table></HTML>
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