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
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
INTERVIEW: Three SCIoI researchers take a look at the clusters’s ethical and philosophical side
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
INTERVIEW: Lars Lewejohann talks about mouse intelligence
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,