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Welcome to the Long Night of Science on June 02, 2012 from 19 to 23 o'clock

We are participating again, this year! From 19 - 23 o'clock we will deliver fascinating insights to current research at our department. We will show different demos what robots are capable of nowadays and what robots and proteins have in common.

RBO enters CASP10

Mittwoch, 02. Mai 2012

We are happy to announce that the Robotics and Biology Laboratory participates at the 10th Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP). In this experiment, computational group have the opportunity to challenge their ideas and algorithms to predict protein structures, only by their sequence. These structures are not yet published or can be found in any public database. Thus, the predictions in this experiment are real predictions (instead of post-dictions that are used to benchmark algorithms).

Our lab participates with a total of 5 prediction methods to challenge different methods that have been developed over the last 2 years. We are excited to see how they perform in the experiment.

Cluster

Donnerstag, 05. April 2012

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Today, 26 additional nodes for our IBM-Cluster iDataplex have been installed and activated. Our department operates now a cluster with 112 nodes in total consisting of IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M2 and M3 servers with two Intel Xeon Quadcore-CPUs each.

Our cluster participates in the current competition of CASP.

see: http://www.predictioncenter.org/casp10/index.cgi

Soft Hands

Montag, 26. März 2012

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The Robotics and Biology Lab is expanding its hardware capabilities with a promising technology from Soft Robotics. It is now set up to create elastic robotic manipulators that are made of rubber, and are actuated by compressed air. This latest addition to its tool set will enable the lab to explore and understand grasping synergies, as well as create compliant manipulators that are compatible with grabbing affordances of everyday things intended for human hands.

Here, you can have a look at our very first prototypes for evaluating the production setup.

March 26, 2012

SCIoI Master Track

Freitag, 20. Mai 2011

Understanding intelligence is one of the great scientific challenges of our time. Yet, in spite of extensive research efforts spanning many scientific disciplines, our understanding of intelligence remains fragmented and incomplete. Science of Intelligence (SCIoI) is a transdisciplinary research approach. Researchers from FU, HU, and TU Berlin work together in order to obtain a better understanding of intelligence. Their cooperation in the central fields of thinking, learning, and perception offers an interdisciplinary environment to students. The SCIoI Master Track is transmitting basic knowledge about potential future-oriented technologies very much appreciated both by industry and academia.

www.scienceofintelligence.de

scioi.info@robotics.tu-berlin.de

The first seminar series of imi-berlin (interaction, modeling, intelligence: www.imi-berlin.org) has started.

The regular biweekly meetings take place on Monday, 4 pm, room EN 189, and serve as a platform for an informal exchange and discussions between school of EECS members.

New job opening topic: motion generation for mobile manipulation
Robotics and Computational Biology.