News

15.02.2016

Visiting Professorship for Dana Kulic

We are happy to announce the successful nomination of Prof. Dana Kulic from the University of Waterloo for the August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting > Professorship. She will stay at ITR for two months between September 2016 and November 2016. The August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting...[more]

Category: Miscellaneous

05.02.2016

Prof. Lee's interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung

The Süddeutsche Zeitung has interviewed Prof. Lee. The article is now online: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/androiden-die-intuition-der-roboter-1.2848121 Originally posted by: http://www.hri.ei.tum.de[more]

Category: In the media

03.02.2016

New publication in Autonomous Robots

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Jun Nakanishi, his journal paper "Spatio-temporal stiffness optimization with switching dynamics" was published in Autonomous Robots, byJun Nakanishi, Andreea Radulescu, David J. Braun, Sethu Vijayakumar, DOI...[more]

Category: Publication

01.02.2016

Three new journal papers by NST! Congratulations!

Congratulations, three new journal papers by NST got accepted! TitleHebbian plasticity realigns grid cell activity with external sensory cues in continuous attractor modelsJournalFrontiers in Computational NeuroscienceAuthorsMarcello Mulas, Nicolai Waniek, and Jörg...[more]

Category: Publication

29.01.2016

A new RA-L Journal Publication and Invitation to ICRA Presentation

Congratulations! The work of Shile is accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 16-21, 2016, Stockholm. Shile Li and Dongheui Lee, Fast...[more]

Category: Publication

27.01.2016

Video of Prof. Lee's TED talk

Prof. Lee gave a talk at TEDxTUM on Saturday October 24 in the TUM Audimax. The video is now available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCjBM23nQ0s Originally posted by: http://www.hri.ei.tum.de[more]

Category: In the media

27.01.2016

Prof. Lee's interview with Radio Deutschlandfunk

Radio Deutschlandrundfunk has interviewed Prof. Lee in our Lab. The article is available at: http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/helmholtz-forschungspreis-roboter-fuer-den-menschen.676.de.html?dram:article_id=343565 Originally posted by: http://www.hri.ei.tum.de[more]

Category: In the media

25.01.2016

Guest professor Univ.Ass. Priv.Doz. Mag. Dr. Manuel Wimmer

The Institute of Automation and Information Systems welcomes Univ.Ass. Priv.Doz. Mag. Dr. Manuel Wimmer from the TU Wien as August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor at our institute. Originally posted by: http://www.ais.mw.tum.de[more]

Category: Miscellaneous

25.01.2016

Elite Master Program in Neuroengineering

The ENB Elite Master of Science program in Neuroengineering (MSNE) at the Technische Universität München is a two-year graduate program, with an optional Research Excellence Certificate, hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center of Competence...[more]

Category: Miscellaneous

19.01.2016

ICRA paper accepted

We are happy to announce that the paper "Robotic Hands Learn To Re-use The Past Experience To Discriminate In-Hand Objects From The Surface Textures Properties" by Mohsen Kaboli, Rich Walker and Gordon Cheng got accepted for ICRA 2016. Originally posted by:...[more]

Category: Publication