Distinguished Lecture Series: Oliver Brock

February 7, 2023, 5:30 p.m. (CET)

About the Interplay of Embodiment and Learning in Intelligent Systems

Time: February 7, 2023, 5:30 p.m. (CET)
  Universitätstraße 32.101, Campus Vaihingen of the University of Stuttgart. The talk will take place in person.
Download as iCal:
We are pleased to announce our upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Oliver Brock (TU Berlin)! 
 
About the Interplay of Embodiment and Learning in Intelligent Systems
 
Biological intelligent systems manifest their intelligence in physical interactions with other agents and with their environment. Such interactions require embodiment. Intelligence, both artificial and biological, also requires some kind of learning. But what is the relationship between the two? How should the two interact? Do they even have to? What could be a common ground on which this relationship can be explored, negotiated, and ultimately designed? In this presentation, I will attempt to provide my personal answers to these questions. I will argue that one of the reasons (deep) machine learning has not yet been able to replicate its smashing successes in the context of robotics lies in the widespread disregard for the important capabilities provided by the body. Instead of considering embodiment, machine learning seems to be resorting to massive use of physical simulations. This seems to be unnecessarily complicated without being convincingly effective.
 
No reservation required - we are looking forward to seeing you there!
 
Please note: Professor Brock will also be available for individual meetings on February 8th. If you are interested in scheduling a meeting, please email ellis-office@uni-stuttgart.de.
 
 
Oliver Brock is the Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor of Robotics in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technische Universität Berlin, a German “University of Excellence”. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2000 and held postdoctoral positions at Rice University and Stanford University. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst before moving back to Berlin in 2009. The research of Brock’s lab, the Robotics and Biology Laboratory, focuses on embodied intelligence, mobile manipulation, interactive perception, grasping, manipulation, soft material robotics, interactive machine learning, motion generation, and the application of algorithms and concepts from robotics to computational problems in structural molecular biology. Oliver Brock directs the Research Center of Excellence “Science of Intelligence”. He is an IEEE Fellow and was president of the Robotics: Science and Systems Foundation from 2012 until 2019.
 

More information 

List of all events


March 2024

February 2024

January 2024

December 2023

November 2023

October 2023

November 2023

October 2023

August 2023

July 2023

June 2023

July 2023

June 2023

May 2023

June 2023

May 2023

March 2023

February 2023

January 2023

December 2022

January 2023

December 2022

November 2022

October 2022

September 2022

August 2022

July 2022

June 2022

May 2022

April 2022

March 2022

February 2022

January 2022

February 2022

January 2022

December 2021

October 2021

September 2021

August 2021

July 2021

June 2021

May 2021

April 2021

March 2021

February 2021

January 2021

December 2020

November 2020

October 2020

September 2020

August 2020

July 2020

June 2020

May 2020

April 2020

March 2020

February 2020

January 2020

December 2019

November 2019

October 2019

July 2019

June 2019

July 2019

June 2019

May 2019

October 2020

April 2019

May 2019

April 2019

March 2019

February 2019

January 2019

December 2018

November 2018

September 2018

To the top of the page