Event Month: March

  • Cyber Valley Impulse on Mobility and Aerospace

    Cyber Valley Impulse on Mobility and Aerospace

    Join us for the first event of our new series „Cyber Valley Impulse“. It is dedicated to the role of AI in shaping the future of mobility and aerospace. This event brings together leading scientists, innovative start-ups, corporates, and investors who will share their research, success stories, and AI-driven breakthroughs.

    As part of the Cyber Valley Impulse event series, this edition focuses on the application of intelligent systems in mobility and aerospace. These sectors are rapidly evolving through advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and data-driven technologies, creating new opportunities and challenges across reseach and industry.  

    A highlight of the event is our research marketplace, an open space to explore emerging AI projects, exchange insights, and connect with entrepreneurs and potential collaborators from academia and industry.

    Program

    15:00: Registration and Check-in

    15:30: Cyber Valley Impulse Welcome

    15:40: Get-Together Circles

    16:30: Science Impulses

    • “Vision-based perception and autonomous control of aerial robots” by Aamir Ahmad, Institute of Flight Mechanics and Controls, University of Stuttgart
    • „ICM – Research and funding opportunities in manufacturing systems & mobility technologies“ by Thilo Zimmermann, InnovationCampus Future Mobility (ICM)
    • „Usage of AI in aerospace systems“ by Zamira Daw Perez, Institute of Aircraft Systems, University of Stuttgart
    • „Automated driving“ by Ulrike Weinrich, Electronics & Mobility, FKFS Research Institute for Automotive Engineering and Powertrain Systems Stuttgart

    17:15: Break

    17:30: Start-up Impulses

    • Anand Waghmare, Yugen Space
    • Frederik Boenke, NUVUS

    17:50: Q&A

    18:15: Science Marketplace and Networking

  • ELLIS Distinguished Lecture Series: Jens Kober

    ELLIS Distinguished Lecture Series: Jens Kober

    About the talk:

    The acquisition and self-improvement of novel motor skills is among the most important problems in robotics. Complexity arises from interactions with their environment and humans, dealing with high-dimensional input data, non-linear dynamics in general and contacts in particular, multiple reference frames, and variability in objects, environments, tasks, and human behavior. A human teacher is always involved in the learning process, either directly (providing data) or indirectly (designing the optimization criterion), which raises the question: How to best make use of the interactions with the human teacher to render the learning process efficient and effective? In this talk I’ll argue that there are tremendous benefits in having a human teacher intermittently interact with a robot also while it is learning. I will discuss various methods we have developed in the fields of supervised learning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and interactive learning. All these concepts will be illustrated with benchmark tasks and real robot experiments ranging from fun (ball-in-a-cup) to more applied (retail environments).

    About Jens Kober:

    Jens Kober is an associate professor at the TU Delft, Netherlands and an ELLIS Fellow. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar jointly at the CoR-Lab, Bielefeld University, Germany and at the Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany. He graduated in 2012 with a PhD Degree in Engineering from TU Darmstadt and the MPI for Intelligent Systems. For his research he received the annually awarded Georges Giralt PhD Award for the best PhD thesis in robotics in Europe, the 2018 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award, the 2022 RSS Early Career Award, and has received an ERC Starting grant. His research interests include motor skill learning, (deep) reinforcement learning, imitation learning, interactive learning, and machine learning for control.

    When?

    March 5, 2025, 09:45 CET

    Where?

    Universitätsstraße 32, Room 101, Campus Vaihingen of the University of Stuttgart

    The talk will be followed by an informal reception during which finger food and drinks will be provided.

    Professor Kober will also be available for meetings. If you are interested in scheduling a meeting, please email ellis-office@uni-stuttgart.de.

  • The AI Incubator 2024 Batch #4: Q&A Session 1

    The AI Incubator 2024 Batch #4: Q&A Session 1

    Q&A Dates:

    The AI Incubator 2024

    The AI Incubator encourages scientists, technologists, and business talent to found their own businesses and be part of the next generation of AI start-ups.

    Our six-week program encourages researchers to consider how they can transfer their cutting-edge AI and robotics research into products and applications. Topics include:

      • Product-market-fit
      • Business strategy
      • Funding opportunities

    We want to equip participants with knowledge, tools, and skills while connecting them with a network of experts, mentors, investors, and other founders to inspire their AI start-up journey. At the program’s conclusion, every team will have the opportunity to pitch their idea to a jury.

    If you’re interested in taking part in The AI Incubator, join one of our Q&A sessions to ask us about the application process, the program, or anything else. You can find more information on the application process and all the dates here.

  • Women in Science

    Women in Science

    Date

    Friday, March 22, 2024


    Time

    14:00


    Location

    Stuttgart, Heisenbergstr. 3, Copper Lecture Hall (2R04)