INTERVIEW: Meet the Kilobots! Mohsen Raoufi introduces the SCIoI Swarm Robotics lab
Those who've been to our Swarm Robotics Lab have certainly seen the multitude of mini-robots lying around the tables. Those are SCIoI’s Kilobots, used by our researchers to study swarm behavior. But what exactly do they do? And how do they work? We had a chat with our researcher Mohsen Raoufi (Project 27), who shed some light on
Our Winter School Ethics of Neuroscience and AI begins on 28 February!
The Winter School Ethics of Neuroscience and AI is a key annual event where researchers can learn about and discuss the ethical dimensions of intelligence research. It is organized by Science of Intelligence in collaboration with Berlin’s Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. Every year it brings together notable
INTERVIEW: Jens Krause and Marcel Brass on Collective Rule Breaking
Mask refusal, violent Corona protests, the storming of the Capitol in Washington – there are some recent examples of collective rule-breaking. The IGB interviewed two Science of Intelligence PIs, Jens Krause, professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) and at IGB, and Marcel Brass, Einstein Professor of Social Intelligence at HU Berlin. The two have
NEWS! New names for our robotics labs: Meet the Čapek Lab and the Asimov Lab!
The SCIoI Team chose 20th-century science-fiction authors Karel Čapek and Isaac Asimov when naming for the Cluster's two robotics labs. Here's why. About a hundred years ago, an emerging author from Prague, Karel Čapek, was thinking of writing a play for the National Theatre featuring "living and intelligent working machines." When trying to come up with a name