Research

Research Facilities

Science of Intelligence performs its research in a number of different facilities. The main hub at Technische Universität Berlin (Marchstraße 23) revolves largely around the synthetic component of research with a host of robotics, motion capture, visual capture, and EEG laboratories. Science of Intelligence also has other labs around town, focusing on behavioral research (i.e. the fish and mice laboratories at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin, respectively).

The Robotics Laboratories

Our robotics facilities at TU Berlin (MAR building) feature two large robotics labs, the Čapek Lab on the second floor and the Asimov Lab on the sixth floor.

Čapek Lab

The Čapek Lab houses the swarm robotics setup with about 100 Kilobots, 30 Thymios with Raspberry Pis, and a ceiling projector. This is also the venue for SCIoI’s integration hackathons, where researchers come together to foster integration between projects belonging to different disciplines. One of the integration projects taking place in this lab focuses on lockboxes and also involves the creation of an escape room.

Asimov Lab

The Asimov Lab houses the motion-capture system, which has a fixed 22-truss structure with16 OptiTrack cameras and various MoCap suits. The Lab is also used for experiments on Human-Robot Interaction with Nao and Pepper robots. Additional equipment in this lab also includes Panda arms, a Cozmo educational robot, various cameras, and more.

The Visual Capture Lab and the EEG Lab

The Visual Capture lab and the EEG Lab are used for research on visual perception, face recognition, and eye movements.

Visual Capture Lab

The Visual Capture Lab consists of a Light lab with a 2×2 truss system, a high speed camera, and event cameras, and a Dark Lab, featuring a projector with a high refresh rate, an eye tracker, and passive/active 3D glasses.

EEG Lab

The EEG Lab features an electrically and acoustically shielded chamber with two participant seats, 74-channel passive EEG systems, plus sensors for pulse, EOG/EMG/ECG, skin conductance, and respiratory rate, mobile eye trackers and displays for audiovisual simulation.

The Aquatic Lab

The SCIoI Aquatic Lab is situated at the Freie Universität Berlin in Dahlem (Lentzeallee 75). Here, our researchers investigate collective intelligence and motion in guppies with the help of robotic fish.