Feel the robot - haptic intelligence | Direktdurchwahl #6
Concentrate on your skin. What do you feel? Heat? Pressure? In the sixth episode of the Cyber Valley podcast “Direct dial: Straight talk about AI” our Public Engagement Managers Rebecca Beiter and Patrick Klügel explore the research on haptic intelligence. How does our sense of touch work? Why is the human hand so marvelous? What must a machine be able to do in order to grasp objects? What can we learn about ourselves from robotics?
Our guests
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, will talk about the challenges and latest developments in haptic intelligence research. She explains why robots have been barely able to touch, how her research is trying to change that, and where that will be useful. An abridged version of this conversation has also been published here for further reading: https://cyber-valley.de/en/news/inter...
Another perspective on the body and presence of machines is brought in by Ilja Mirsky, dramaturge at the Zimmertheater Tübingen (Institut für theatrale Zukunftsforschung ITZ). He is doing a PhD on the topic of human-machine interaction and sees the relationship between humans and machines as a source of inspiration.
About Direktdurchwahl
The Cyber Valley Podcast is online on Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music/Audible as well as Google Podcasts– and most recently on Apple Podcasts and YouTube. In addition, horads 88.6, the campus radio station for the Stuttgart/Ludwigsburg region, broadcasts the podcast every second Sunday at 14:00.
In our podcast, we clarify what AI scientists are researching. We also present what AI can't do (yet) or where special challenges currently exist in research and development. Our guests don't talk about unrealistic visions of the future, but about the real questions that arise in their research. We also ask people from the region for their perspective on the complex topic of AI.
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Cyber Valley is Europe’s largest research consortium in the field of artificial intelligence. The state of Baden-Württemberg, the Max Planck Society with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen, as well as Amazon, BMW AG, Daimler AG, IAV GmbH, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, and ZF Friedrichshafen AG are Cyber Valley’s founding partners of this initiative. In 2019, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft also joined Cyber Valley as a partner. Moreover, Cyber Valley receives support from the Christian Bürkert Foundation, the Gips-Schüle Foundation, the Vector Foundation, and the Carl Zeiss Foundation.