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Professor Pascal Friederich has been awarded the Manfred Fuchs Prize for his work on the use of artificial intelligence in the development of new chemical materials. Friederich's promising approach is to combine existing knowledge and large amounts of data with machine learning and algorithms in order to not only develop suitable materials, but also to finely simulate their properties. This accelerates existing processes and has the potential to deliver solution-orientated chemical molecules and materials for new medicines or green technologies.

The research prize is endowed to promote young scientists in Baden-Württemberg.

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With the SMARTI³ project (Scalable Manipulation Learning through AR-Enhanced Teleoperation enabling Intuitive Interactive Instructions), Professor Neumann wants to improve the ability of robots to carry out complex tasks in real environments.

He has been granted around 2.4 million euros for his research.

With the ERC Consolidator Grants, the European Research Council (ERC) funds projects by outstanding scientists who completed their doctorate seven to twelve years ago and whose own independent research group is in the consolidation phase.

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What is real-world laboratory research, how can it change city life and how can you get involved?

We will get to the bottom of these questions at the Real:lab Festival from 2 to 6 July 2024.

The Real:lab Festival brings together numerous contributions from real-world lab researchers at KIT. KIT real-world laboratories with different focal points invite you to get to know each other and exchange ideas with other researchers and practitioners.

InformatiKOM 1 opens its doors on Saturday, 6 July 2024. From 14:00 - 18:00, visitors can experience research on robotic artificial intelligence up close.

KIT, Amadeus Bramsiepe

KIT has joined the Cyber Valley Innovation Campus, Europe's largest and leading center for artificial intelligence (AI) and modern robotics.

This was announced on June 21, 2024 at the opening of the ELLIS Institute in Tübingen, a Cyber Valley flagship project to strengthen the network between top AI researchers from all over Europe.

BMBF, Hans-Joachim Rickel

The Robotics Institute Germany (RIG), jointly established by Germany’s leading robotics centers, is to become the central contact point for robotics in Germany. The goal of RIG is  to strengthen Germany's global competitiveness and technological sovereignty in AI-based robotics. The initial conditions are favorable: Germany’s roboticists are among the global leaders in AI-based robotics and have made significant contributions to the international robotics landscape. "However, Germany has so far lacked a strategic approach that bundles the existing potential and utilizes synergies to secure Germany's long-term competitiveness and promote excellence and economic growth. We will establish the RIG as a nationally recognized and internationally unique institute that shapes cutting-edge research, education and innovation in AI-based robotics and aligns it with Germany's needs," explains RIG spokesperson Prof. Tamim Asfour from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Dr. Frederike Dümbgen, INRIA and Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, will give a talk about "A Program of Research for Globally-Optimal State Estimation in Robotics" on Thursday, June 06, 2024 at 09:30 in the Atrium of InformatiKOM I, Bldg. 50.19, Adenauerring 12.