News

01/10: Luciano Spinello joins the lab as a post-doctoral research associate. Daje!

11/09: Diego Tipaldi received the AI*IA prize for the best italian PhD thesis in AI. Brav' uaglio'!

06/09: Our paper "Place-Dependent People Tracking" has been accepted at ISRR'09 and invited to the IJRR best paper issue.

12/08: Diego Tipaldi finishes his PhD at the University of Rome La Sapienza with the highest grade.

12/08: Kai Arras and Oscar Martinez Mozos organize the ICRA'09 Workshop on people detection and tracking. Workshop homepage.

10/08: Diego Tipaldi joins the lab as a post-doctoral research associate. Ciao bello!

08/08: Our RSS'08 paper "Classi-fying Dynamic Objects: An Unsuper-vised Learning Approach" is selec-cted for the AURO best paper issue.

08/08: Kai Arras is co-editing the ECMR'07 best paper special issue in the RAS journal.

07/08: Matthias Luber joins the lab as the first PhD student. Welcome!

07/08: The SRL is founded! Hello world.

07/07: The DFG-funded Junior Research Group Leader grant is awarded to Kai Arras. He is given the opportunity to found his own research group.

We make robots socially more compatible

Next-generation robots will work closely with humans as companions at home, care-takers for the elderly, intelligent cars or as helpers in the service industry. Their tasks require advanced social and cognitive skills to effectively interact and cooperate with humans. We believe that the key to long-term acceptance and utility of robots is their ability to perceive, understand, learn and reproduce human social behavior.
Thus, we ask the following questions:

  • How can robots learn to become socially more compatible?
  • How can robots learn human social behavior by observation and imitation?
  • How can robots recognize intentions and goals to naturally blend
    into human activities?
  • What are the cognitive processes and their implementations
    that enable this behavior?
  • How can we create sustainable and efficient human-robot relationships?

The SRL is part of the SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition Research Center