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

SCIoI studies intelligence from the points of view of its various disciplines: We study the collective behavior of schools of fish or flocks of starlings and apply our findings to small robots that move synchronously. We observe mice and cockatoos as they open lockboxes or get out of escape rooms, and apply these mechanisms to artificial

  Lars Lewejohann, SCIoI PI in projects 3, 25, 40 and 46 tells us more about what's going on in a mouse's mind. What is your line of research within the Cluster? A big part of the research we are doing at SCIoI involves finding the relation between different forms of intelligence in different entities, such as robots, humans,

PRESS RELEASE by Science of Intelligence and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) 21 December 2021 PAPER: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01654-7 It is a fascinating phenomenon: thousands of fish moving like a giant Mexican wave in the water, diving down and coming back to the surface over and over again for up to two minutes. While humans engage in

As reported on Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (www.rnd.de), the new federal government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has set up a council of scientific experts to address the Covid19 pandemic.The  expert commission includes, among others, well known chief virologist at the Charité Christian Drosten, Hendrik Streeck (head of the Virological Institute at the University Hospital in Bonn), Lothar Wieler (head of

We are very proud to announce that our member Richard Schweitzer, who works on SCIoI Project 23, just won the Humboldt Prize 2021 for his dissertation on „Perceptual and Motor Consequences of Intra-saccadic Perception.“ Here is Richard Schweitzer's statement, published on the HU website: "We usually think of visual perception in terms of taking a photo of our environment.

So you've missed the MitWissenschaft event, the panel talk organized in conjunction with the Humboldt Lab exhibition and featuring Jens Krause, Lea Musiolek, and Pawel Romanczuk? Not to worry! The video of the event is now online and you can see it here!

Luis Gómez is a postdoctoral researcher at Science of Intelligence, working in the research group of Pawel Romanczuk. Together with doctoral researcher Robert Lange and PI Henning Sprekeler, he focuses on quantifying and modelling collective behavior of fish living in their natural environment. We asked him about his project and his academic life at SCIoI, and

We make decisions all the time, from simple ones such as what to make for dinner to more complex ones, such as whether or not to take a new job. To do so, we use the different decision-making strategies, which make use of our past experiences and of our knowledge about the world. Some of these strategies require