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
IAI's Raphael makes popcorn for Bild Zeitung
When journalist from Bild magazine visited our lab at Institute for Artificial Intelligence they were amazed about Raphael's cognitive abilities. They are relating their experience into an article describing how Raphael is cooking popcorn. Popcorn Demo is one of the first activities which our PR2 robot, Raphael, is able to perform fully autonomously. While preforming it Raphael is running a task execution framework which is coordinating the navigation, perception and manipulation routines.
Bild magazine is one of the most popular magazine in Germany. It was a pleasure for us to welcome them in our lab.
Weser Report describes IAI's Raphael "the robot for daily usage"
After their visit in our laboratory the reporters from Weser Report described Raphael as “the robot for daily usage” in their article. They had the chance to see how Raphael learns from games. They they saw him autonomously fetching different cooking containers and operating the kitchen stove in order to prepare the popcorn. Furthermore the reporters saw Raphael opening and closing the test tubes which contain the substance which must be pipetted. They were surprised to see Raphael's dexterity to use the pipette and operating the centrifuge in order to separate a the substances in a solution. The reporters were also impressed by the European project RoboHow which is lead by Uni Bremen trough Prof. Michael Beetz, PhD.
Weser Report is one of the most popular magazine in Bremen and North West Germany.
RoboSherlock awarded as best paper at ICRA 2015
Its originality, technical merits, clarity of presentation, potential impact in the field of service robotics lead RoboSherlock to win the “Best Service Robotics Paper” at ICRA 2015.
RoboSherlock is a cognitive perception system built on top of the principles of unstructured information management. Among other extremely valuable papers presented at this conference, RoboSherlock proved to be a very strong contribution to the advancement of service robotics in research and industry R&D.
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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