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Since the group merged with the Robot Learning Lab, you can find our current online presence here: Robot Learning Lab.



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01.08.2023 Starting from August 1st Prof. Dr. Abhinav Valada is the new chair of the group .
02.06.2023 The paper CALVIN - A Benchmark for Language-Conditioned Policy Learning for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation Tasks by Oier Mees, Lukas Hermann, Erick Rosete and Wolfram Burgard has won the 2022 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award.
10.05.2023 The paper Grounding Language with Visual Affordances over Unstructured Data by Oier Mees, Jessica Borja-Diaz, and Wolfram Burgard is nominated for the Best Paper Award in Robot Learning at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
26.04.2023 Oier Mees receives the AI Newcomer 2023 award by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Informatics Society in the Technical and Engineering Sciences category.
26.06.2022 Oier Mees was selected as a Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Pioneer, one of the world's top early career researchers in robotics.
01.07.2021 Wolfram Burgard will receive the prestigious 2022 IEEE Technical Field Award in Robotics and Automation, the highest Technical Award of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
13.05.2020 The paper Adversarial Skill Networks: Unsupervised Robot Skill Learning from Video by Oier Mees, Markus Merklinger, Gabriel Kalweit and Wolfram Burgard is nominated for the Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
11.12.2019 The University of Freiburg was selected as one of 17 ELLIS centers of excellence in machine learning in Europe. Wolfram Burgard will be heading the Freiburg group.
01.12.2019 Abhinav Valada is now an assistant professor and head of the robot learning lab at the University of Freiburg.
04.10.2018 Wolfram Burgard receives the prestigious Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies from the International Conference for Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). The price is awarded because of his pioneering contributions to the problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).
28.06.2018 The paper Courtesy Behaviour for Highly Automated Vehicles on Highway Interchanges by Cristina Menéndez-Romero, Mustafa Sezer, Franz Winkler, Christian Dornhege and Wolfram Burgard receives the Best Paper Award at IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2018).
04.06.2018 Wolfram Burgard gives an invited talk at RoboMech 2018 in Kitakyushu, the largest robotics conference in Japan.
24.05.2018 The paper Optimization Beyond the Convolution: Generalizating Spatial Relations with End-to-End Metric Learning by Philipp Jund, Andreas Eitel, Nichola Abdo and Wolfram Burgard receives the Best Paper Award in Robot Vision at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
04.10.2017 Wolfram Burgard is elected President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) for 2019 and 2020.
04.02.2017 Wolfram Burgard receives for the second time the AAAI Classic Paper Award for the paper "Monte Carlo Localization: Efficient Position Estimation for Mobile Robots" published at AAAI-99 together with Dieter Fox, Frank Dellaert and Sebastian Thrun.
13.10.2016 The paper A Probabilistic Approach to Liquid Level Detection in Cups Using an RGB-D Camera by Chau Do, Tobias Schubert and Wolfram Burgard is nominated for the Best Student Paper Award and the Best Application Paper Award at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
22.07.2016 Tayyab Naseer receives the "Best PhD Student and Best Presentation Award" at the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS).
12.02.2016 Wolfram Burgard receives the AAAI Classic Paper Award for the paper "The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot" of the AAAI-98 together with Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dirk Hähnel, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Dirk Schulz, Walter Steiner and Sebastian Thrun.
28.05.2015 The paper Robot, Organize my Shelfes! Tidying up Objects by Predicting User Preferences by Nichola Abdo, Cyrill Stachniss, Luciano Spinello and Wolfram Burgard is nominated for the Best Service Robotics Award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
22.12.2014 Wolfram Burgard became Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
01.05.2014 Wolfram Burgard became member of the National Academy of Science Leopoldina.
01.04.2014 Cyrill Stachniss is now a professor for Photogrammetry at the University of Bonn.
01.11.2013 Wolfram Burgard has become Editor in Chief of the Reviewing board of the International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ICPRB).
23.10.2013 Jörg Müller receives the Wolfgang-Gentner-Award 2013 for his PhD-Thesis.
05.07.2013 Cyrill Stachniss receives the Computer Science Faculty Teaching Award 2013 of the Faculty of Engineering.
09.05.2013 Cyrill Stachniss receives the IEEE RAS Early Career Award.
09.05.2013 Cyrill Stachniss receives the award for the best Associate Editor of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
09.05.2013 Slawomir Grzonka receives the Best Reviewer Award of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
25.01.2012 Wolfram Burgard becomes a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
02.09.2011 Jürgen Sturm receives the Wolfgang-Gentner-Award 2011 for his PhD-Thesis.
14.7.2010 Cyrill Stachniss becomes a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow.
19.11.2009 Cyrill Stachniss has successfully passed his habilitation.
20.5.2009 The book Robotic Mapping and Exploration by Cyrill Stachniss has been published by Springer.
16.5.2009 Slawomir Grzonka, Giorgio Grisetti, and Wolfram Burgard receive the ICRA 2009 Best Conference Paper Award for their paper entitled Towards a Navigation System for Autonomous Indoor Flying.
04.12.2008 Wolfram Burgard is awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG.
01.12.2008 Christian Plagemann succesfully accomplished his Ph.D. defense.
01.05.2008 Patrick Pfaff and Wolfram Burgard will organize the IROS 2008 Workshop on 3D Mapping.
19.11.2008 Jose Neira, Cyrill Stachniss, and Stefan Williams organize the ICRA 2009 Workshop on "Visual Mapping and Navigation in Outdoor Environments".
23.07.2008 Wolfram Burgard becomes ECCAI Fellow.
28.06.2008 Cyrill Stachniss becomes Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
01.05.2008 Patrick Pfaff and Wolfram Burgard will organize the IROS 2008 Workshop on 3D Mapping.
28.3.2008 Cyrill Stachniss receives the 7th Georges Giralt Award for the best robotics thesis in Europe submitted in 2006.
30.6.2007 Kai Arras is awarded the position of a DFG-funded Junior Research Group Leader. The position has been published with the SFB/TR8.
25.10.2006 Cyrill Stachniss receives the Wolfgang-Gentner-Award 2006 for his PhD-Thesis.
1.10.2006 Wolfram Burgard will be general chair of the conference Robotics - Science and Systems (RSS 2007) and Cyrill Stachniss will be publicity chair and publication chair.
1.10.2006 The research group for autonomous intelligent systems will be organizer of the European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR 2007).
29.11.2005 Dirk Hähnel is awarded the Südwestmetall-Förderpreis 2005 for his PhD-thesis.
26.10.2005 Dirk Hähnel receives the Wolfgang-Gentner-Award 2005 for his PhD-thesis.
19.10.2005 Wolfram Burgard is appointed Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
01.10.2005 The book Probabilistc Robotics of Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard and Dieter Fox is published by MIT-Press.
06.08.2005 Cyrill Stachniss, Dirk Hähnel and Wolfram Burgard win the best-paper-award on application for the paper Exploration with Active Loop-Closing for FastSLAM at IROS 2004.
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