Intelligent Systems

Group News

Albane Ruaud selected to join the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

  • 20 April 2023

The postdoctoral researcher from the Autonomous Learning Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen is one of 635 young scientists from across the world who are given the opportunity to participate in a week of scientific exchange with some of the world’s greatest minds.

Albane Ruaud


Georg Martius receives ERC Consolidator Grant

  • 26 July 2022

Autonomous Learning research group at the MPI-IS in Tübingen is awarded € 2 million for a period of 5 years.

Georg Martius Linda Behringer


Fingertip sensitivity for robots

  • 24 February 2022

Striving to improve touch sensing in robotics, scientists developed a thumb-shaped sensor with a camera hidden inside and trained a deep neural network to infer its haptic contact information. When something touches the finger, the system constructs a three-dimensional force map from the visible deformations of its flexible outer shell. This research invention significantly improves a robot finger’s haptic perception, coming ever closer to the sense of touch of human skin.

Huanbo Sun Georg Martius Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Linda Behringer


Machine learning dynamics of quantum systems

  • 05 May 2021

Researchers at the University of Tübingen and MPI-IS have applied machine learning methods to understand the quantum dynamics in physical models.

Georg Martius Dominik Zietlow


Two Publications Accepted at ICLR 2021

  • 15 January 2021

Our papers "Extracting Strong Policies for Robotics Tasks from Zero-order Trajectory Optimizers" and "Self-supervised Visual Reinforcement Learning with Object-centric Representations" got acceped to ICLR 2021.

Cristina Pinneri Shambhuraj Sawant Sebastian Blaes Andrii Zadaianchuk Maximilian Seitzer Georg Martius


CVPR Oral Now Online

  • 15 June 2020

We just uploaded our presentations for our CVPR paper "Optimizing Rank-based Metrics with Blackbox Differentiation" to YouTube.

Michal Rolinek Anselm Paulus Marin Vlastelica Pogancic Georg Martius


MPI for Intelligent Systems continues video series

  • 29 April 2020

Video No 4 is now available

Short films present scientists' research projects in an understandable way

Alejandro Posada Linda Behringer Georg Martius Alexander Badri-Sprowitz Andreas Geiger Sebastian Trimpe


Accepted Paper at CVPR

  • 01 February 2020

Our paper on optimizing rank-based metrics with blackbox differentiation received flawless reviews and got accepted at CVPR 2020

Michal Rolinek Anselm Paulus Marin Vlastelica Pogancic Georg Martius


Perfect Review-Scores for our ICLR Submission

  • 20 December 2019

Our paper "Differentiation of Blackbox Combinatorial Solvers" received perfect review-scores for ICLR 2020!

Marin Vlastelica Pogancic Anselm Paulus Georg Martius Michal Rolinek


Two posters at NeurIPS

  • 12 December 2019

We presented two posters at NeurIPS: "Control What You Can" and "Differentiation of Blackbox Combinatorial Solvers"

Sebastian Blaes Marin Vlastelica Pogancic Michal Rolinek Georg Martius