News

• The HBP in the news: see below...
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Topics

* Learning or De-Learning - How Motor Circuits Develop: In Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass ein Grossteil der neuronalen Verbindungen und Neuronen kurz vor/nach der Geburt abstirbt, stellt sich die Frage, ob wir Bewegungen überhaupt erlernen. Alternativ haben wir erst einmal alle Bewegungen ge-coded, und verlernen dann einfach nur einige Kombinationen.

* Reservoir computing on dedicated HW

* Applications of Deep Learning in Robotics

* Applications of Reservoir Computing in Robotics

* Overview and comparison of existing software / tools for neural simulations

* Neural plasticity for robotic information streams

* Active Touch Sensing

* Robotics for Neuroscientists – more than just a mechanical test platform for neural hypotheses?

* Compliant Actuators – more than just a vestigiality?

* Much ado about nothing – do artificial neural circuits improve robotics control?

Schedule

Date	Presenter	Topic
25.02.2016	Alexander Vandesompele	The Hippocampal output system in awake animals slides
26.11.2015	Alina Roitberg	The Neurorobotics Platform slides
10.12.2015	Annika Wollschläger	Braitenberg Vehicles slides
	Ayaka Yamada (Tokyo Univ.)	Musculoskeletal Simulator slides
14.01.2016	Carolina Brunnett	Review of Musculosceletal Actuators slides
	Eva Siehmann	Introduction to mouse anatomy slides
22.10.2015	Florian Röhrbein	Intro & Overview
07.01.2016	Florian Röhrbein	round-table discussion with short presentations
03.03.2016	Georgi Dikov	Event-based stereo vision with spiking neural networks
31.03.2016	Guang Chen, Alexander Kuhn	Past Projects & Future Plans
28.01.2016	Lars Kipferl	Review of Musculosceletal Models slides
21.01.2016	Martin Mihaylov	Applications of Deep Learning in Robotics slides
05.11.2015	Maximilian Mahlberg	Attention in Visual Processing + Gesture Tracking with iCub slides
11.02.2016	Maximilian Mahlberg, Jakob Hirscheider	Update on Master Theses
19.11.2015	no class	5th Neurorobotics Performance Show @Karlsruhe
03.12.2015	no class	Dies Academicus
18.02.2016	no class	6th Neurorobotics Performance Show @Geneva
10.03.2016	no class	Seminar "Future robotics and dual use" @Paris
17.03.2016	no class	Event "Future Emerging Art and Technology" @Amsterdam
12.11.2015	Philipp Stratmann	Spike-timing dependent plasticity slides
29.10.2015	Rebekka Seltmann	Simulating a biologically inspired computational model of the hippocampus on SpiNNaker slides
04.02.2016	Vadim Lopatkin	Implementation of a walking algorithm for the NR platform slides

Description & Material

For information on HBP Neurorobotics see http://neurorobotics.net

In the news: "Zehn Ideen, die die Welt verändern werden", see http://www.handelsblatt.com/my/technik/forschung-innovation/zukunftsprojekte-zehn-ideen-die-die-welt-veraendern-werden/12740500.html