INTERVIEW: Angelica Godinez on Visual Perception and Life at SCIoI
Angelica Godinez is a vision scientist and a postdoc researcher at SCIoI working in Martin Rolfs' team on Project 2. Her research aims at understanding visual perceptual processing and action in humans in order to contribute insights to AI and robotics. We spoke to her in order to better understand her project and her work, and
NEWS! What are Futures Made of? The “CollActive Materials” project has started
The month of May brings us the first event of the the experimental laboratory CollActive Materials, a joint project of the Berlin Clusters of Excellence Matters of Activity – Image Space Material and Science of Intelligence. In this project, society and science speculate together about the materials of tomorrow: What might they look like or feel like?
NEWS: SCIoI PI Thorsten Pachur received a W3 professorship at TU München
We are very proud to announce that last month, our PI Thorsten Pachur recently received a W3 Professorship at the Technische Universität München (TUM). Thorsten, who will still remain a SCIoI PI, studies the cognitive foundations of decision making, and is particularly interested in understanding how the human mind, given informational and computational constraints, can master an uncertain
NEWS: SCIoI in Antarctica! SCIoI collaborated with an Oxford University expedition to observe penguin behavior
What do penguins have to do with SCIoI? Thanks to a collaboration between SCIoI PIs Alex Kacelnik and Guillermo Gallego, SCIoI was able to send event cameras all the way to Antarctica and help researchers install them there in order to study interactions between chinstrap penguins. Can't get more remote than that, can it? Penguins spend most
INTERVIEW: Doris Pischedda on human-robot interactions, robot emotions, and her new Q-Team course
Why is it important to study interactions between humans and robots? Why do we want our robots to show us their emotions? We've asked our researcher Doris Pischedda about her work with robotic agents, and about the new elective course she is teaching at the Humboldt Universität through the bologna.lab. Doris, you examine interactions between humans and robots. Why do we
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