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Michael Brecht, “Active touch and Large-Brain Neuroscience in Elephants” and Yasemin Vardar, “Active Synthetic Touch: Generating Naturalistic Multisensory Tactile Stimuli for Active Exploration”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Michael Brecht (BCCN Berlin) will present data on a systemic investigation of brains and of grasping behavior in elephants. The analysis of sensory nerves suggests that elephants are extremely tactile animals. In elephants, trunk whisker length is lateralized as a result of heavily lateralized trunk behaviors. The elephant trunk tip appears to be represented by

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Dario Floreano (EPFL), “Avian-Inspired Drones”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

In less than 20 years drones transitioned from research labs to the real world and had a major impact on inspection, security, rescue, logistics, and entertainment. However, today's drones do not match the agility, endurance, adaptability, and intelligence of birds. Birds are not only the masters of the sky but are also at ease on

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LNDW 2025/Open Labs at RBO: Hands-On with the Future: Control a Soft Robotic Hand!

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

Where: RBO Lab (5th floor) Time: At regular intervals between 5:30 and 10pm Event Type:  Experiment By Alexander Koenig Language: English and German Suitable for kids: Yes, from 5 Website: www.tu.berlin/en/robotics Did you ever wonder what it feels like to control a robotic hand? At the Robotics and Biology Lab you can see, touch and

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LNDW 2025/SCIoI Open Labs: Smart Swarms – How Mathematics Helps To Understand Swarm Behavior and Collective Intelligence

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

Where: SCIoI, TU MAR building Room 2.013 Time: at 5:45 and 6:45pm (duration: 30 mins) Event Type: Talk By Prof. Pawel Romanczuk Language: English and German Suitable for kids: No This exciting lecture is meant to give a short intro to collective intelligence, and can also serve as an introduction to the CoBe experiments you

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LNDW 2025/SCIoI Open Labs: Become a Swordfish and Chase Virtual Fish in a Mixed Reality Game

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

Where: Showroom, SCIoI, TU MAR building Room 2.034 Time: At regular intervals from 5:30 to 10pm By David Mezey and Palina Bartashevich Language: English Suitable for kids: Yes (only with parental supervision 5+) Description: Visitors can dive into the world of collective intelligence by becoming a marlin (a large swordfish) and chasing a swarm of

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LNDW 2025/SCIoI Open Labs: How Group Structure Shapes the Spread of Behavior

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

Where: Showroom, SCIoI, TU MAR building Room 2.034 Time: At regular intervals from 5:30 to 10pm By Maryam Karimian Language: English Suitable for kids: No This demo showcases simulation results that illustrate how group size and density influence the spread of behavior by systematically manipulating these factors and evaluating their impact on contagion dynamics. Check

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LNDW 2025/SCIoI Open Labs: Explore Vision Science & Create Art with Your Eyes!

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

Where: Dark Lab (Room 2.008) Time: regular intervals between 5:30 and 10pm Event Type:  Experiment By Ole Hall, Julie Ouerfelli-Ethier, and Qu Runfeng Language: English, German, French Suitable for kids: Yes, from 5 The SCIoI Vision Lab is opening its doors to the public! Join us for a unique experience. Discover Eye Tracking – Live demonstrations will

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LNDW 2025/Open Labs at RBO: Feeling Without Seeing

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

Where: RBO Lab (5th floor) Time: regular intervals between 5:30 and 10pm Event Type: Experiment By Furkan Davulcu Language: English Suitable for kids: Yes, from 5 Website: www.tu.berlin/en/robotics How do you recognize objects just by touch? Our amazing soft robotic hand can do it too! Fitted with special sensors in its squishy fingers, it feels

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LNDW 2025/Open Labs at RBO: Robot Plays Escape Room

SCIoI, MAR Building Marchstr. 23, Berlin

Where: RBO Lab (5th floor) Time: at regular intervals between 5:30 and 10pm Event Type:  Demonstration By Paul Xu Pu Language: English Suitable for kids: Yes, from 5 Website: www.tu.berlin/en/robotics Do you know our robot can play the escape room game? Join us to explore how we build intelligent systems by combining various abilities. Watch

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Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2025, Excellent Pub Quiz

TU Berlin, Wangari Mathaai Foyer, Straße des 17. Juni 135, in the main building

Join the “Excellent Pub Quiz” at the Long Night of the Sciences 2025! Back by popular demand: team up with your friends (2–4 people), come up with a fun team name, and put your knowledge to the test at the Excellent Pub Quiz hosted by Berlin’s seven Clusters of Excellence at TU Berlin. Exciting prizes

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Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol) & Dafna Burema (Science of Intelligence)

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

More details to follow. This talk is part of David Mezey's course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior, ” a seminar on collective behavior research, combined with multiple interactive elements.     Photo created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.

Thursday Morning Talk

Raina Zakir (Université Libre De Bruxelles), “Robust Decision-Making in Minimalistic Robot Swarms Under Social Noise”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Abstract Minimalistic robot swarms hold great promise for applications in healthcare, disaster response, and environmental monitoring. A key challenge lies in enabling these robots to rapidly and reliably reach consensus using limited communication, computation, and memory. In this talk, we explore how robot swarms can collectively identify the best among multiple discrete options in their