Welcome to the Institute for Artificial Intelligence!
The Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI) is directed by Prof. Michael Beetz.
As a research institute, we conduct basic scientific research in the field of cognition-enabled robotics for everyday activities.
As part of the Faculty of Computer Science, we have a project-based teaching approach. Our hands-on projects in teaching include SuTuRoProjekt: SUTURO - sudo tidy-up-my-room, IntEL4CoRo and the annual EASE Fall School.
The IAI is member of the Center for Computing and Communication Technologies (TZI) as well as the high-profile area Minds, Media and Machines (MMM) at the University of Bremen.
Research
| Funded projects | |
|---|---|
 | EASE (SFB 1320) is a collaborative research center for everyday activities. |
 | IntEL4CoRo provides an interactive learning environment. |
 | euROBIN is a European Network of Excellence that the IAI is part of. |
 | REMARO develops a reliable and safe AI system for underwater robotics. |
 | Tracebot enables robotic systems to understand what they do. |
| Internal projects | |
|---|---|
 | CRAM is a software toolbox for the implementation of autonomous robots. |
 | KnowRob is a knowledge processing system for robots. |
 | OpenEASE is a web-based knowledge service providing robot and human activity data. |
 | GISKARD is a framework for constraint- and optimization-based robot motion planning and control. |
 | RoboKudo is a perception framework targeted for robot manipulation tasks. |
A full overview of our ongoing and completed projects can be found here.
News
Google Summer of Code 2017
We are thrilled to announce that The Institute for Artificial Intelligence has been selected as mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2017 as one out of 201 organizations world-wide. The initiative, started in 2005, sponsors students during the summer months for contributing code to selected open source projects. This is our third year in the Google-sponsored program and we're looking forward to mentoring interested students and introducing them to our software tools and research endeavors.
You can find more information about the proposed projects as well as contact information of the designated mentors at our Google Summer of Code page.
Highschool pupils from Arequipa meet the robots in our lab
Twelve pupils from Arequipa, Peru interested in studying Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at University of Bremen visited the robots from our lab. Next year is their final year of studies before continuing to university and knowing the international reputation of University of Bremen in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence they chose to visit the research laboratories of our university. It was our pleasure to have them as guests and hence confirm the international reputation of our university. In our lab they interact with our Pepper robot and explored his social capabilities. Furthermore they saw the PR2 robot making popcorn and Boxy robot baking pizza for them. We look forward to having them back as students.
PRAC is now available on mobile devices too
Probabilistic Action Cores (PRAC) system has a new web interface: PRACWeb which allows users to test out on smart devices the capabilities of the system. PRAC system is the implementation of a novel approach for probabilistic high-performance natural-language interpreter. The interpreter has a knowledge-driven approach. It is inspired by concepts of cognitive psychology and models actions as abstract event types. PRACWeb allows the user to generate robot-executable plans from natural-language instructions. PRAC relies on pracmln, which is a toolbox for statistical relational learning and reasoning. It includes tools for standard graphical models (in particular, MLNs). The web interface of pracmln is WebMLN. It allows the users to try out the capabilities of pracmln system.
Teaching
A detailed description of most courses can be found in the Online Module Handbook of the Department.
If you are looking for lectures from past semesters, take a look at our Lecture archive.
Besides lectures and projects, we also offer thesis assignments and jobs for student research assistants. If you are interested, you can find more information here.
Prof. Dr. hc. Michael Beetz PhD
Head of Institute
Contact via
Andrea Cowley
assistant to Prof. Beetz
ai-office@cs.uni-bremen.de
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