As part of the events linked to the exhibition Nach der Natur at the Humboldt Forum, on 25 November at 7pm cluster members Jens Krause, Lea Musiolek, and Pawel Romanczuk will take part in an exciting discussion on the meaning, the study, and the challenges of collective intelligence, bringing great examples and fascinating materials. How do

WE ARE HIRING! We are very excited to announce that the 11 research Phd and Postdoc positions for the upcoming cohort 4 of Science of Intelligence are now officially open and online! Click here to see all positions. Start getting your application documents ready, and make sure to send everything in by 25 November! We are looking forward to your

Great news from the Humboldt Labor! In addition to the already existing exhibition Nach der Natur, which features SCIoI through videos and installations, the Humboldt Lab also just inaugurated the SCIoI-MPIB joint experiment on individual and collective decision-making processes by our member Ralf Kurvers, which playfully investigates how visitors make judgments and how they incorporate the judgments of others.

In their new ICCV paper, SCIoI members Pia Bideau and Guillermo Gallego, together with Cheng Gu, Erik Learned-Miller, and Daniel Sheldon, describe a new model to align the frames of an event camera and create a stable panorama that is easier to make sense of. Compared to traditional image-based cameras, event cameras work at high speed with a very

Try to pick up an object from a table. Depending on how tall or flat the object is, you are going to have to make decisions in order to move the right muscles and exert the right amount of grip. Although these mechanisms are commonplace to us, they require complex modeling if we want to reproduce

Applying Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s views to human and robotic learners’ imitation processes One of the aims of our cluster’s research is to facilitate communication between robotics and psychology. To do that, we apply key concepts of social learning in humans to understand how they correspond in robotics. A conference paper by Murat Kirtay, Johann Chevalère, Rebecca Lazarides,

Can robots make it easier for humans to produce spoken language? According to a new Science of Intelligence study led by Olga Wudarczyk, Murat Kirtay, Doris Pischedda, Verena Hafner, John-Dylan Haynes, Anna Kuhlen, and Rasha Abdel Rahman, published recently in Scientific Reports, the answer is “yes”. The study, which focused on verbal communication between humans and robots, aimed to

For the this year's edition of the Berlin Science Week (1–10 November), the event organisers asked David Bierbach about Robofish and collective intelligence in a great video interview that took place in our Fish Lab. What are the advantages of doing research in Berlin? How was the Robofish developed? Is it possible to transfer our observations

Together with the other Berlin clusters, Science of Intelligence is featured at the new exhibition Nach der Natur at the Humboldt Labor. The installation, which opened to the public on 20 August, presents Berlin's research panorama through objects, texts, interactive activities, and videos. Click here to view SCIoI's video introduction as presented at the exhibition.   (Copyright Time Prints

The traces light leaves on the retina close gaps in visual perception and provide continuity in knowing what is where as we move, as observed by Richard Schweitzer and Martin Rolfs Berlin/ Freiburg, July 13, 2021   /BN/ What we see leaves traces. In rapid movements, so-called saccades, our gaze jumps from one location to the next to project