Robots in strawberry fields: How AI automates harvesting and supports farmers
The strawberry harvest is one of the most labor-intensive tasks in agriculture. Each fruit must be hand-picked at its optimal ripeness, handled with…
Parabolic flight with exoskeleton: DFKI and University of Duisburg-Essen explore innovative spaceflight training in microgravity
Performing fine motor tasks under space conditions is a particular challenge and must be trained extensively on Earth. A research team from the German…
Harvest forecasts with AI
If farmers want to know how productive their harvest will be in future, it will no longer be experience alone that provides the answer - but an…
When virtual worlds save lives
In humanitarian crises, there’s no time for trial and error. This makes intensive preparation and realistic training all the more important. With…
How AI is saving the Mona Lisa
It is the most famous painting in the world... and suddenly it has disappeared. A theft, a secret sale on the darknet and a trail that seemingly…
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Research areas and their leaders:
- Agents and Simulated Reality
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Slusallek - AI for Assistive Health Technologies
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marcin Grzegorzek - AI in Medical Image and Signal Processing
Prof. Dr. Heinz Handels - Augmented Vision
Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker - Cognitive Assistants
Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger - Cognitive Social Simulation
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Timm - Cooperative and Autonomous Systems
Prof. Dr. Martin Atzmüller - Cyber-Physical Systems
Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler - Data Science and its applications
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer - Design Research eXplorations
Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost - Educational Technology Lab
Prof. Dr. Niels Pinkwart - Embedded Intelligence
Prof. Dr. Paul Lukowicz - Experience-based Learning Systems
Prof. Dr. Ralph Bergmann - Foundations of Systems AI
Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting - Innovative Factory Systems
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ruskowski - Institute for Information Systems
Prof. Dr. Peter Loos - Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data
Prof. Dr. Volker Markl - Intelligent Networks
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Dieter Schotten - Interactive Machine Learning
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniel Sonntag - Marine Perception
Dr. Frederic Theodor Stahl - Multilinguality and Language Technology
Dr. Simon Ostermann - Neuro-mechanistic Modeling
Prof. Dr. Verena Wolf - Robotics Innovation Center
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Frank Kirchner - Smart Data & Knowledge Services
Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Andreas Dengel - Smart Enterprise Engineering
Prof. Dr. Oliver Thomas - Smart Service Engineering
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Maaß - Speech and Language Technology
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller - Systems AI for Decision Support
Prof. Dr. Carsten Binnig - Systems AI for Robot Learning
Prof. Dr. Jan Peters
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