Founded on 18 March 2011, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) is one of the 86 research institutes of the

Max Planck Society The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...

. With locations in

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and

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, it combines

interdisciplinary research Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several fields such as sociology, anthropology, psychology, economi ...

in the growing field of intelligent systems. Intelligent systems are becoming increasingly important in many areas of life – as virtual systems on the

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or as cyber-physical systems in the physical world. Artificial intelligent systems can be used in a broad range of areas, for instance in

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or to diagnose and fight diseases.

Research departments

* Empirical Inference (

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), Tübingen * Haptic Intelligence ( Katherine Kuchenbecker), Stuttgart * Perceiving Systems ( Michael J. Black), Tübingen * Physical Intelligence (

Metin Sitti Metin Sitti is the Director of thPhysical Intelligence Departmentat the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, which he founded in 2014. He is also a Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Enginee ...

), Stuttgart * Robotic Materials (Christoph Keplinger), Stuttgart * Social Foundations of Computation (Moritz Hardt), Tübingen

Current Research Groups

* Autonomous Learning (Georg Martius), Tübingen * Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots (Wenqi Hu), Stuttgart * Dynamic Locomotion (Alexander Badri-Sprowitz), Stuttgart * Embodied Vision (Jörg Stückler), Tübingen * Human Aspects of Machine Learning (Samira Samadi), Tübingen * Learning and Dynamical Systems (Michael Mühlebach), Tübingen * Neural Capture and Synthesis (Justus Thies), Tübingen * Organizational Leadership and Diversity (Ksenia Keplinger), Stuttgart * Physics for Inference and Optimization (Caterina De Bacco), Tübingen * Rationality Enhancement (Falk Lieder), Tübingen * Robust Machine Learning (Wieland Brendel), Tübingen

Current Max Planck Fellow Groups

* Coordinative Intelligence (Thomas Hofmann), Tübingen/Zürich * Human-centric Vision & Learning (Otmar Hilliges), Tübingen/Zürich * Interactive Learning (Andreas Krause), Tübingen/Zürich * Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (Klaas P. Prüssmann), Stuttgart/Zürich

Initiatives and networks

The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and

ETH Zurich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

cooperate in the research field of "Learning Systems". For this purpose, they have founded the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS). It is the first joint doctoral program of ETH Zurich and the

. Since the program was founded in 2015, 112 doctoral students and

post-docs A postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral researcher, or simply postdoc, is a person professionally conducting research after the completion of their doctoral studies (typically a PhD). Postdocs most commonly, but not always, have a temporary academ ...

have been admitted as Fellows or Associated Fellows. CLS currently counts 50 directors,

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, and research group leaders among its members or associated members. In July 2019, the Max Planck Society and ETH Zurich agreed to extend the program's funding until 2025. Since December 2016, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is part of the research network Cyber Valley. Partners are the

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, the

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, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the State of Baden-Württemberg and seven industrial partners:

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, IAV GmbH,

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, and

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. Cyber Valley is also supported by the Christian Bürkert Foundation, the Gips-Schüle Foundation, the Vector Foundation, and the

Carl Zeiss Foundation The Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation), legally located in Heidenheim an der Brenz and Jena, Germany, and with its administrative headquarters in Stuttgart, is the sole shareholder of the two companies Carl Zeiss AG and Schott AG. It wa ...

. Founded in 2018, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) aims to strengthen Europe's role in global AI research.

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