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Welcome to the Institute for Artificial Intelligence!
The Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI) directed by Prof. Michael Beetz is part of the Faculty of Computer Science and member of the Center for Computing and Communication Technologies (TZI) at the University of Bremen.
Ocean Sampling Day: DNA Extraction Demonstration
As a side-event of the Ocean Sampling Day 2014 there will be a special public demonstration in our lab on Saturday, the 21st of June, at 10:30. Our PR2 robot will perform some laboratory tasks which are part of a DNA extraction process, such as pipetting and centrifugation using ordinary lab equipment. Please, confer to our press release (in German) for more details about this event. We are looking forward to see you on Saturday! For those who could not attend, you can watch the recording of the event on the following links (starts at ~30 mins):
Webcam,
RobotCam.
Our contribution to this year's Informatica Feminale
Women face unique challenges in computer science, a field that has been designed for men for too long, and where women are still underrepresented. Although information technology has been with us for a long time and artificial intelligence is now rapidly finding its way into more and more areas of life, there seem to be few efforts at a professional level to integrate the diverse interests of women into computer science.
Instead, computer science as a discipline still tends to be oriented towards the traditionally male-dominated worlds of experience in everyday life and work, resulting in products and applications geared predominantly towards men. As a result, computer science threatens to remain an unattractive area for women, where they do not see themselves represented.
What can be done to change this?
To address and counteract these challenges, opportunities for cross-institutional exchange and mutual support have become an invaluable resource for women in computing.
The Informatica Feminale
The University of Bremenโs Informatica Feminale aims at providing such an opportunity: to support and connect female computer science students and professionals in order to promote equal opportunities for women in the field.
About the Informatica Feminale
From August 14 to 29, 2024, the 27th Informatica Feminale - Summer University for Women in Computer Science will take place at the University of Bremen. Over 60 courses will be offered on current specialist topics as well as interdisciplinary topics. As part of the Informatica Feminale, Michaela Kรผmpel, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at our institute, is giving the course Creating Actionable Knowledge Graphs for Agent Applications.
About the course
This course focuses on the use of knowledge in applications to support users in their daily lives. It covers topics such as how to represent knowledge in a way that it can be understood by machines, how to acquire knowledge from different sources (including web scraping), and how to link such different pieces of knowledge. It will also discuss how agents can reason about this knowledge and how different agents such as websites, AR applications, or robots can use knowledge to assist users in their daily lives. The course will provide tutorials, and participants will be asked to choose a topic of their own interest (such as recommending a diet, filtering recipes based on preferences, or providing basic health support) for which they will create an actionable knowledge graph to be used for user support on a website. All necessary steps are covered in the course and tutorial.
Target group
The course is aimed at advanced female students and practitioners from engineering, computing and related fields.
Requirements
Activities before class time: mandatory email exchange with lecturers. Installation of Jupyter, Python, Pip (with support), exchange about course idea: 3 hours.
Credit for participation
Participants can receive one Credit Point (ECTS) for taking part in the course. Further credit points can be earned by submitting course work/ additional work.
Curious to learn more?
Extensive background information, the full course program and registration can be found here: https://www.informatica-feminale.de/
Webinar on "The innovative Virtual Research Building (VRB) for AI-powered and cognition-enabled robotics"
๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ! We are taking part in AI Month mAI by Rise of AI (ki-deutschland.de) and cordially invite you to the upcoming event. One month. One mission. Make AI accessible.
Details
๐ข๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฎ.๐ฌ๐ฑ.๐ฎ๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฎ:๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐ญ๐ฐ:๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฝ๐บ, the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI) at the University of Bremen will host a ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ป โ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด (๐ฉ๐ฅ๐) ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐-๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ด๐ป๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป-๐ฒ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐โ led by Prof. Dr. h.c. Michael Beetz, PhD. Co-speakers: Dr. Michaela Kรผmpel, Vanessa Hassouna, Sascha Jongebloed, Arthur Niedzwiecki
Participation fee: free of charge
Webinar language: German
Requirement: high level of motivation
Via Zoom Link: https://uni-bremen.zoom-x.de/j/64073931541?pwd=VkMyQkpEOW1kdmhpb0NRNkcyNWFTZz09
Have you ever thought about experiencing cutting-edge scientific research live and even trying it out for yourself? With our VRB webinar we offer you this opportunity! Experience what it's like to work in innovative virtual research laboratories and gain basic knowledge in leading research fields.
The Virtual Research Building (VRB) is an integrated ecosystem designed to promote the development of AI-powered and cognition-enabled robotics. It supports the entire research and innovation pipeline from talent acquisition and training to collaboration in cutting-edge research and knowledge transfer for economic and societal benefit.
With the VRB, we offer convenient, open access to our research infrastructure for cooperative and cognition-based robotics and AI. In our webinar, you will gain insights into how you can benefit from this revolutionary platform equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories. Don't miss this opportunity and discover the potential of our VRB.
Join us and shape the future with us!
A recap of the AI Innovation Made in Bremen event
On April 9th, we had the opportunity to host the โTZI Roadshow: KI Innovation made in Bremenโ event in our facilities. The event kicked off with inspiring welcome speeches from the University of Bremenโs Chancellor, Frauke Meyer, and Bremenโs Senator for Environment, Climate, and Science, Kathrin Moosdorf. Both highlighted the transformative impact of AI, especially its potential to revolutionize the Bremen region.
In the keynote speech by Prof. Beetz from our institute, he envisioned Bremen as a future global hub for AI-based robotics research. This bold idea resonated throughout the following panel discussion, where experts like Georg Bartels (Co-Founder & CEO at UBICA Robotics GmbH), Prof. Rainer Malaka (Managing Director of TZI Center for Computing Technologies), Dr. Nina Wenig (Founder of IDA GmbH), and Andreas Wulfes (CEO at Neusta Data Intelligence GmbH) explored AIโs expansive possibilities for regional business development in northwest Germany.
Afterwards, the more than 220 attendees engaged with groundbreaking research projects of the TZI and explored the innovative start-up exhibits. The atmosphere of the evening buzzed with a vibrant exchange of ideas among all participants.
We thank all guests and participants for their positive feedback on the evening and extend our thanks to our partners and colleagues at the TZI Center for Computing Technologies and idea2business (i2b) for the excellent teamwork in organizing this successful event.
Also visit the Digital Media Lab: Digital Media Lab - Universitรคt Bremen
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Robotics Start-Up Ubica Wins Award for Innovative Strategies in Retail
We are celebrating an important award with the robotics start-up Ubica Robotics, which was spun out from the IAI: The ZukunftHandel Award, an initiative of the German Retail Association, honours outstanding examples of forward-thinking strategies in retail. The jury was convinced by Ubicaโs digital twins as an innovative and practice-oriented solution that saves time and money in retail.
About the startup
The start-up Ubica Robotics was founded in 2020 by Ferenc Bรกlint-Benczรฉdi, Georg Bartels, Alexis Maldonado and Jonas Reiling as a spin-out from the University of Bremen. The start-up is based on the research work of its founders within the framework of the H2020 research project โRobotics Enabling Fully-Integrated Logistics Lines for Supermarketsโ (REFILLS) funded by the EU Commission. On this basis, the start-up develops robots that improve internal processes in retail stores.
What makes Ubicaโs retail robots innovative?
The ZukunftHandel award is well-deserved: There is no doubt that Ubica's robots are outstanding in the German stationary retail sector. With their wide range of applications, they occupy a unique position. What also sets UBICA's robots apart is that they are backed up by detailed digital models and linked to background knowledge, enabling them to do their best work on the basis of so-called digital twins.
Every night after store closing time, Ubica's UB5 scanning robots autonomously roam the retail stores to capture, recognise and identify store inventory, and create and update store digital twins on a daily basis.
Based on these digital twins, which represent an accurate 3D digital image of the store, inventory management can be optimized in several ways: Customers and staff can find products more quickly, shelf gaps can be identified and closed early, and stocktaking can be simplified. This gives employees more time during the day to advise their customers. Overall, the use of Ubica robots promises stores to save time and money.
For more information about Ubica, visit their website.
Enabling everyone to explore real robotics โ online
Save the date to get to know the IAI's interactive learning environment for everyday robotics in an online workshop as part of this year's European Robotics Week hosted by the European Robotics Forum.
The IAI's workshop at the 2023 European Robotics Forum
In the upcoming workshop we will present our interactive learning platform IntEL4CoRo, which is designed to enable students and researchers to work with our frameworks.
The workshop will consist of two tutorials:
- how to acquire web knowledge for robot action execution
- how to perform everyday manipulation tasks in the interactive learning environment.
Mark your calendar: November 23rd, 10:00 - 13:00 CET
For more information, visit the IntEL4CoRo project website.
For access to the online event, visit https://events.eu-robotics.net/event/everyday-activitity-knowledge-acquisition-and-execution-in-an-interactive-learning-environment/
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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