We had an exciting MetaTool Project EU project meeting with inspiring scientific discussions and a hands-on tool creation workshop!

Heute Abend ist es soweit! 🤗🏆🍾 Die Alexander von Humboldt-Professur, Deutschlands höchstdotierter Forschungspreis, wird in Berlin an 12 Spitzenwissenschaftler*innen verliehen. #AvHProfessor Sabine Döring @BMBF_Bund 📺 Livestream ab 19 Uhr hier: humboldt-foundation.de/verleihung-hum…

IEEE ICDL (International Conference on Development and Learning) IEEE ICDL will take place in Macau this year! Extended deadline: June 30, 2023 🤖icdl-2023.org

15 years on twitter 🦜 #MyTwitterAnniversary

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften #LNDW23 - Full House bei unseren Robotern! Berlin United NaoTH

Last preparations for the world championship in Bordeaux! #RoboCup2023 Berlin United NaoTH Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin RoboCup SPL League #BerlinUnited instagram.com/naoteamhumbold…

Interested in #biohybrid systems and #complexity science? Participate in our summer school in Graz, apply now! ‼️NEW deadline for applications: 14 July 2023‼️ Horizon 2020 HIVEOPOLIS Robocoenosis WatchPlant EU Project #complexity Uni Graz/University of Graz Arqus Alliance

We're organizing #RoboVillage at the Chaos Communication Camp 2023 again. Please come round and check out our robots or bring your own and join our village! #cccamp23 #robots events.ccc.de/camp/2023/info…

The baseball-sized stones found at a site in Israel where early humans lived 1.4 million years ago were intentionally knapped into spheres – although we still don’t know why newscientist.com/article/239065…

LIVE UPDATE! Our panel discussion at the Science of Intelligence Science of Intelligence Fair 2023 is on right now. John-Dylan Haynes, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Verena Hafner, and Jens Krause talk with moderator Marianna Evenstein about Advancements in Safe AI Technology.

1/ The Worth of Wild Ideas (and The Right To Be Wrong). My take on the ‘IIT as pseudoscience’ letter, and some of the wider issues involved, out now in Nautilus Magazine nautil.us/the-worth-of-w…

Open #PostDoc position in Developmental #Robotics / #Computational Modeling / #ML / #VR in the #SCIoI Science of Intelligence project "Observational learning in children and artificial agents" in the Adaptive Systems Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin #Berlin!

Learning from conspecifics: #chimpanzees may use social learning to acquire new skills. New study in Nature Human Behaviour by Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen, Sarah DeTroy, Daniel Haun & Josep Call. MPI-EVA Leipzig Utrecht University University of St Andrews See: tinyurl.com/4dh4epzk & ⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4156…

New publication AND robot video! youtube.com/watch?v=I4dYeo… Paper doi.org/10.1145/361097… Effects of Transparency in Humanoid Robots - A Pilot Study by H. Mellmann who's presenting @ #HRI2024, P. Arbuzova D. Kontogiogos, M. Yordanova J.X. Haensel & V. Hafner funder: AXA Research Fund

New paper! Effects of Transparency in Humanoid Robots - A Pilot Study #HRI2024 The HRI Conference dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36… with Joanna J Bryson Polina Arbuzova 🇺🇦 @dimkontogiorgos Verena @[email protected] @vvh.bsky.social Heinrich Mellmann M. Yordanova, J. Haensel support: Science of Intelligence MetaTool Project EU AXA Research Fund Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

I've been working in multimodal AI for human-robot interaction research field for 15 years, specializing in emotion and expressivity. The OpenAI demo was freaking impressive. Some thoughts. 🧵

5 days to go!

The #DFG #SPP The Active Self summer school is about to start with an exciting programme! #activeself activeself.de/2024-summer-sc… DFG public | @[email protected]

Next up Verena Hafner on Embodied AI Approach to Measures of the Self 😎

The Active Self symposium was a blast ! Thank you to the organisers for putting together such an interesting program and people 😎🙏