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. With locations in Stuttgart and

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, it combines

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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

* Autonomous Motion (under interim management,

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), Tübingen * Empirical Inference (

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

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), Stuttgart * Robotic Materials (Christoph Keplinger), Stuttgart * Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter ( Siegfried Dietrich), Stuttgart

Research groups

* Autonomous Vision (Andreas Geiger), Tübingen * Autonomous Learning (Georg Martius), Tübingen * Dynamic Locomotion (Alexander Badri-Sprowitz), Stuttgart * Embodied Vision (Jörg Stückler), Tübingen * Intelligent Control Systems (Sebastian Trimpe), Stuttgart * Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems (Ardian Jusufi), Stuttgart * Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems (Peer Fischer), Stuttgart * Movement Generation and Control (Ludovic Righetti), Tübingen * Physics for Inference and Optimization (Caterina De Bacco), Tübingen * Probabilistic Learning Group (Isabel Valera) * Probabilistic Numerics (Philipp Hennig) * Rationality Enhancement (Falk Lieder), Tübingen * Statistical Learning Theory (Ulrike von Luxburg), Tübingen

Initiatives and networks

The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and ETH Zurich 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 Max Planck Society. Since the program was founded in 2015, 112 doctoral students and post-docs 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 University of Stuttgart, the

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, the

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

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, BMW Group,

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, IAV GmbH,

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, Robert Bosch GmbH, and

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

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. 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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