„Autonomous Learning“ Max Planck research group lead by Dr. Georg Martius

A picture says more than a thousand words, a video more than a thousand pictures. For this reason, we have produced a series of short films that present the researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, their projects and goals. We want to give an insight into our institute, making the work done here understandable for everyone. We start the series with a portrait of the "Autonomous Learning" Max Planck research group by Dr. Georg Martius. The Autonomous Learning group’s mission is to make robots learn in a way that is similar to early childhood development. Learning directly from interacting with their environment can potentially enable them to act in a complex and constantly changing world, which they cannot be programmed to do.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems strive to understand the principles of perception, action, and learning in autonomous systems that successfully interact with complex environments. In addition to gaining a scientific understanding of natural intelligent systems, the institute’s scientists aim to use such insights to design the artificially intelligent systems that could benefit humanity in the future. With campuses in Tübingen and Stuttgart, the MPI-IS combines theory, software, and hardware expertise in a single interdisciplinary center. This enables the pursuit of creative and impactful research in a broad range of connected topics within the thriving research field of intelligent systems.