Past Events

Humans and animals anticipate the consequences of their actions before acting, yet most robot policies remain reactive and limited to short horizons. In this talk, Dr. Gumbsch will sketch an approach to building embodied agents that learn to solve tasks by thinking ahead, rather than relying on...

The potential of increasingly prevalent networked control systems, including connected automated driving systems (ADS) and networked robots, to enable fast and reconfigurable autonomy underscores the critical need for distributed sensing, perception, and planning architectures that are robust to...

To cope with perceptual uncertainty, humans integrate information from multiple sources, such as visual, auditory, and haptic input. A large body of evidence shows that this multimodal integration is often statistically optimal and can be explained by Bayes’ rule. In an inherently uncertain...

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests that representations from neural networks are converging to a common statistical model of reality. We show that the existing metrics used to measure representational similarity are confounded by network scale: increasing model depth or width can...

Self-supervised visual representations often capture semantic part similarities, features that respond consistently to wings, legs, or wheels. However, these features encode 2D similarities rather than 3D correspondences. To reason in a 3D world, an ideal representation would provide 3D...

Simulating the sun's atmosphere requires solving complex non-local, non-linear systems of coupled equations. A massive computational bottleneck that typically restricts researchers to 1.5D approximations or requires millions of CPU hours for full 3D snapshots. We present a solution that bypasses...

Autonomous drones play a crucial role in inspection, agriculture, logistics, and search-and-rescue missions and promise to increase productivity by a factor of 10. However, they still lag behind human pilots in speed, versatility, and robustness. What does it take to fly autonomous drones as...

We are happy to invite you to the upcoming Pre-NeurIPS Poster Session featured by ELIZA.If you would like to participate, please register under https://brainlinks-braintools.uni-freiburg.de/registration/?id=2 by 24.11.2026 latest.You will have the opportunity to view the latest research works...

Learning motor skills in robotics has applications ranging from agriculture, manufacturing, to household environments and care. Imitation learning is one of the most prominent approaches in this field. Recent advances on large-scale models have enabled generalists, but are not yet suitable for...

The 47th German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR 2025) will be hosted at the University of Freiburg! GCPR is the annual symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) and the leading national venue for advances in image processing, pattern recognition, and computer...

Research in humanoid robotics strives to create versatile machines endowed with functional intelligence. These machines should be able to reason and act in the physical world and perform any task that a human might reasonably be expected to carry out. The era of humanoid robots acting in the real...

The new ELIZA Master students in Freiburg gathered for the Decentralized ELIZA Welcome Networking Event, joining other sites via video conference. After a warm welcome and inspiring remarks from the School Director, students took part in interactive team-building activities that helped everyone...

In the lead-up to the 2025 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), several ELLIS Units across Europe organized the inaugural ELLIS Pre-ICML Fest—a decentralized initiative aimed at providing ELLIS researchers with the opportunity to present their latest work in a local, collaborative...

The Käpsele Innovation Festival is the largest innovation festival in southwest Germany and will take place on June 26, 2025 in the SICK Arena at Messe Freiburg.The festival’s motto is “Out of the bubble – into the future” and brings together creative minds, ambitious start-ups and established...