November 2023
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October 2023
- New collaborative BMBF project with the goal to develop a privacy-friendly mobile avatar for ill school kids at home has been funded.
- New papers accepted at Humanoids23, ICAR23, and in Current Robotics Reports (Springer Nature)!
- Maren Bennewitz gives an invited presentation about our work on "Active Perception for Fruit Mapping and Autonomous Harvesting" at the IROS23 Workshop on Agricultural Robotics for a Sustainable Future.
- Jorge de Heuvel, Nils Dengler, Rohit Menon, and Tobias Zaenker present their papers at IROS.
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September 2023
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June 2023
- 4 papers accepted at IROS!
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April 2023
- Maren Bennewitz gives a presentation about her research on "Foresighted Robot Navigation in Human Environments" at the Women in AI speaker series, a collaboration between the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and Deloitte.
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March 2023
- Maren Bennewitz is awards chair for ICRA2023.
- One of our Nao robots has opened the exhibition #GermanyDigital jointly with the director of the Haus der Deutschen Geschichte Harald Biermann. Here is a pic of the event.
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February 2023
- Sicong Pan joined the lab as PhD student. Welcome!
- Three papers accepted at ICRA.
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January 2023
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November 2022
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October 2022
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August 2022
- Maren Bennewitz is Awards Co-Chair at ICRA 2023.
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July 2022
- We're looking for a highly motivated and qualified PhD student. The job announcement can be found here.
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June 2022
- The DFG Research Unit AID4Crops (Automation and Artificial Intelligence for Monitoring and Decision Making in Horticultural Crops) got funded! The press release can be found here.
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February 2022
- Murad Dawood and Rohit Menon joined the lab as PhD students. Welcome!
- Maren Bennewitz is a member of the awards committee at ICRA.
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December 2021
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October 2021
- Benedikt Kreis joined the lab as PhD student. Welcome!
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September 2021
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July 2021
- 2 papers accepted at IROS, 2 papers accepted at ECMR, 1 paper accepted at RO-MAN!
- Kira Bungert was awarded with the Grace Hopper Award by the University of Bonn for promising your researchers for her work on human-robot relations during her Master's thesis. Congratulations!
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June 2021
- Jorge de Heuvel joined the lab as PhD student. Welcome!
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May 2021
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April 2021
- Maren Bennewitz is area chair of RSS2021, associate editor of HUMANOIDS21, and PC member and workshop chair of ECMR21.
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March 2021
- Nils Dengler joined the lab as PhD student. Welcome!
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February 2021
- 3 papers accepted at ICRA!
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January 2021
- The professional network Women in Robotics features Maren Bennewitz.
- Maren Bennewitz will be a member of the awards committee at IROS.
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December 2020
- Our DFG Research Unit Anticipating Human Behavior has been extended for the second phase.
- Maren Bennewitz will serve as associate editor for the upcoming Humanoids conference and area chair for RSS2021.
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October 2020
- Graduation of Lilli Bruckschen. Congratulations!
- EU Horizon 2020 project got funded! We're excited to contribute to the new H2020-FETOPEN project entitled "Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Meet Cultural Heritage".
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August 2020
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June & July 2020
- We got accepted 2 papers at IROS, 1 at RO-MAN, 1 at HCII, 1 at ECE, and 2 papers at CMLA. Check out our new publications here!
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January & February 2020
- Maren Bennewitz gave presentations about "Robot Navigation in Human Environments" at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Twente.
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December 2019
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November 2019
- Tobias Zaenker joined the lab as PhD student. Welcome!
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October 2019
- Our paper Human Motion Prediction Based on Object Interactions has been selected as one of the best papers at the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2019.
- We have been visiting PAL Robotics and presented our research on Robot Navigation in Human Environments and Robust Methods of Locomotion for Humanoid and Wheeled Robots.
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September 2019
- Christopher Gebauer joined the lab as PhD student. Welcome!
- Maren Bennewitz will be workshop chair at ECMR21 and awards chair at ICRA23.
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June 2019
- Our robot Naomi introduces the Prime Minister of North Rhine Westphalia Armin Laschet at the Global Media Forum. Watch also this video!
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May 2019
- Maren Bennewitz will be member of the awards committees at ICRA19 and RSS19 and publicity chair at ICRA20.
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January 2019
- Two papers accepted at ICRA.
- Maren Bennewitz has been elected for the executive board of the Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob.
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December 2018
- Maren Bennewitz will be workshop co-chair of RSS'19 and Humanoids'20.
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November 2018
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September 2018
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July 2018
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June 2018
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May 2018
- Maren Bennewitz has been elected for the executive board of the Center for Mind Research, University of Bonn.
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April 2018
- Our robot Naomi interacts with children and helps them to clean up. See this video broadcasted by Westdeutscher Rundfunk.
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January 2018
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September 2017
- AbdElMoniem Bayoumi and Marcell Missura present our works on "Learning Foresighted People Following under Occlusions" and "The Synchronized Holonomic Model: A Framework for Efficient Motion Generation" at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
- Peter Regier presents our work on "Predicting Travel Time from Path Characteristics for Wheeled Robot Navigation" at the European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR).
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August 2017
- Maren Bennewitz serves as associate editor for ICRA 2018.
- Maren Bennewitz is part of the excellence committee for the UK Best PhD in Robotics Award, 2018.
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May 2017
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February 2017
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December 2016
- As a Christmas present, our Research Unit Anticipating Human Behavior got funded!
- Olivier Stasse, Andrea del Prete, and Maren Bennewitz organize the German-French Conference on Humanoid and Legged Robots (HLR), Toulouse, Dec 5-7.
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November 2016
- Philipp Karkowski presents our paper about Real-Time Footstep Planning in 3D Environments at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids).
- Maren Bennewitz joins the IJCAI 2017 Senior Program Committee and also serves as associate editor for ICRA 2017.
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October 2016
- Maren Bennewitz presents her research at iRobot.
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August 2016
- Marcell Missura joins the lab as Postdoc. Welcome!
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July 2016
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April 2016
- Successful review meetings of our EU FP7 projects SQUIRREL and ROVINA.
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March 2016
- Maren Bennewitz presents her research at the Kärcher Future Day.
- Robert Rudolph joins the lab as student assistant. Welcome!
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January 2016
- Three papers accepted at ICRA 2016! One of which appears also in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
- Maren Bennewitz serves as editor for IROS 2016.
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August 2015
- Ibrahim Shareef joins the lab as student assistant. Welcome!
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July 2015
- Maren Bennewitz serves as workshop chair for ICRA 2016.
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June 2015
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May 2015
- Maren Bennewitz is a vice rector of the University of Bonn.
- Maren Bennewitz serves as editor for IROS 2015.
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March 2015
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February 2015
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January 2015
- We are looking for motivated student assistants! Please contact us if you are interested in programming the Nao robot.
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December 2014
- We have integration weeks of our EU FP7 projects SQUIRREL in Wien and ROVINA in Bonn.
- Stefan Oßwald joins the lab. Welcome!
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November 2014
- Our Nao plays autonomously the metallophone. Watch this video.
- Our proposal submitted within the DAAD PROCOPE program has been accepted. We will collaborate with Andrea Cherubini and Abderrahmane Kheddar from the University of Montpellier on visual navigation with humanoids.
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October 2014
- Our Nao cleans up a room autonomously. Watch this video.
- The research group has been founded. Welcome Peter, Philipp, and Abd El-Moniem!
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