Author: Adna Bliek

The lecture series "Autonomous Systems: From Research to Products" started again. This winter term, experts from Siemens and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg will again jointly teach students about transferring research results into practice and finally products.

The winter semester started again at the FAU with sunny but cold weather. Philipp Beckerle welcomed the new BSC and MSc students of the new Autonomy Technologies program.

Alex is a Fulbright Grantee from Johns Hopkins University and is doing research at our chair from September 2023 – July 2024. She is pursuing her PhD in Mechanical Engineering in the Haptics and Medical Robotics Laboratory. Her research aims to investigate how haptic feedback affects embodiment of r...

BSc student Johanna Bauer received the best paper award at the Conference on Integrated Systems in Medical Technologies (ISMT) at Institute FAPS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg for her work on “Fusion of Multiple Fiducial Markers for Continuous Teleoperation of Robot Arms”.

We had our retreat of two days where we discussed our research at the Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics and went on a hike together.

Dear students and researchers, Adna Bliek is organizing a podium discussion on Gender bias in AI on September 7th at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. The panelists of the podium discussion are Anna Leschanowsky, Dr. Kinga Schumacher, and David B. Blumenthal. And Abigail Oppong will give an online impulse t...

We got the news from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation; we will receive support for the implementation of our Interactive Gait Assistance Experience Lab at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. The laboratory will be set up together with Anne Koelewijn, Sigrid Leyendecker, Claud...

Bernhard Egger visited our chair and gave an interesting talk on "Inverse Graphics and Perception with Generative Face Models". It was a good opportunity to broaden our perspective and discuss how we can bring together our research at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and beyond.

Bayerische Forschungsstiftung granted our project on learning predictive maintenance of fleets of networked devices. The project is carried out in cooperation with the Chair of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing, Sielaff GmbH & Co. KG Automatenbau Herrieden, and Dallmeier electron...

Philipp Beckerle war at interACTIVE HAPTICS Conference by GREWUS GmbH in Hamburg. Besides contributing a talk on Human Perception of Haptics, he enjoyed great discussions with a lot of haptics experts from industry and academia as well as a rental bike ride across the city on the way back from the c...