News

20.2.2025: We're excited to share that all of our 5 research papers have been accepted for publication at the 1st German Robotics Conference in Nürnberg! Check out our Lab Publications page for more details.

12.2.2025: Robotics Institute Germany Meeting at KIT, Karlsruhe.

11.2.2025: Prof. Röhrbein gave an invited talk at the Robotics & AI EXPERIENCE in Dresden.

06.2.2025: Our interactive workshop 'Human-Machine Teaming' took place. The aim of the workshop was to gain insight into the human and technical factors of this direct collaboration.

29.1.2025: Invitation to speak at the 1st meeting of the Medical AI Valley in Tübingen.

27.1.2025: Our paper "Whisker-based Active Tactile Perception for Contour Reconstruction" has been accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Atlanta.

20.1.2025: Kick-off meeting of our new BMBF-funded project IntelliVoiceAnalytic (AI-based, voice-controlled anomaly detection in AMR systems without cloud connection) in Heilbronn.

18.1.2025: Happy to meet with famous AI researcher Gary Marcus.

16.1.2025: The IHK Technologiestammtisch took place at our university, where our department presented our active projects as well as the robots we are researching with.

10.1.2025: The future of industry: will we soon be working together with robots? Our Department is researching the collaboration between humans and robots. To this end, we have developed a research platform in which humans and robots solve assembly tasks together. The aim is to investigate how humans and robots can interact with each other and express their intentions. The head of this project, Sascha Kaden, gave a talk on this topic for the Senior college under the title "Robot research for Industry 5.0".

13.12.2024: Prof. Röhrbein presented an invited talk on Neurorobotics at the EMERGE conference in Belgrade, Serbia!

11.12.2024: We are now an official member of the CAIRNE research network.

29.11.2024: We were visited by Prof. Walter, Machine Intelligence Lab, Technical University of Nuremberg.

25.11.2024: We visited BMW in Leipzig, for a joint workshop on AI Bin Picking.

21.11.2024: BMW gave a lecture about how they are using AI in their Leipzig plant.

14.11.2024: Honoring our professor. The TU Chemnitz awarded Prof. Röhrbein the Transfer Award in the 'Science Communication' category for his outstanding work in enhancing our external reputation.

14.11.2024: Discussion at the Volkshochschule Chemnitz on the topic: "Current research on AI. What do we need to know?" with Sascha Kaden as speaker.

24.10.2024: Prof. Röhrbein gave a guest lecture about Neurorobotics at the Seniorenkolleg of the University of Leipzig.

23.10.2024: As part of the TU Project Days, Bastian Schindler led a hands-on course focusing on the basics of AI and robotic motion. This session was designed to give participants a practical understanding of how artificial intelligence drives robotic actions.

23.10.2024: Prof. Röhrbein gave a guest lecture about Neurorobotics at the Seniorenakademie Dresden.

15.10.2024: Our IROS contribution entitled "Pattern-based Complementary Learning for Monocular Depth Estimation by Best of Both Worlds" was presented in Abu Dhabi!

1-2.10.2024: We visited our project partner NEURA Robotics, find more details here.

29.9.2024: Our submission entitled "Habit-inspired Methods for Embodied Intelligence" has been accepted by IOP Publishing!

28.9.2024: Visit to MAPS - the Medical Autonomy and Precision Surgery lab of TUM & MRI.

23.9.2024: Exchange of project leaders for TUCculture 2025 projects.

19.9.2024: Our paper "Adversarial Evasion Attacks on Computer Vision using SHAP Values" has been accepted for publication at the 10th bwHPC Symposium in Freiburg, Germany.

19.9.2024: Also our paper "Energy-Efficient Information Representation in MNIST Classification Using Biologically Inspired Learning" has been accepted for publication at the 10th bwHPC Symposium in Freiburg, Germany.

30.8.2024: We were visited by TUC students with interest in Neurorobotics. Our team member Yousuf provided an overview and showcased a couple of demos.

28.8.2024: Sascha Kaden presented our paper "A Research Platform for Human-Robot-Interaction with Focus on Collaborative Assembly Scenarios" in Pasadena, California!

3.8.2024: We cordially invite you to our interactive workshop "Human-Machine Teaming". Gain insights into the fascinating collaboration between humans and machines. All disciplines are welcome!

3.7.2024: We gave an oral presentation at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), in the "Cross-Disciplinary Topics" track, on our paper "Weight Perturbation and Competitive Hebbian Plasticity for Training Sparse Excitatory Neural Networks".

2.7.2024: TU Chemnitz now is an official member of the EBRAINS German node as confirmed today by the General Assembly.

30.6.2024: Our paper entitled "PCDepth: Pattern-based Complementary Learning for Monocular Depth Estimation by Best of Both Worlds" has been accepted for oral presentation at the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

27.6.2024: Marking the end of another productive semester, the department gathered for a BBQ which was both delicious and a little smoky.

21.6.2024: Our CVPR paper was presented at 10:30 Pacific Time in Seattle!

20.6.2024: For the IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments, we organised a workshop on Bio & Brain-inspired Robotics, see here.

18/19.6.2024: Dr Perzylo, Head of Robotic Platform Engineering at fortiss, visited us with his team.

13.6.2024: Prof. Röhrbein gave a keynote speech entitled "More than Just Chat(GPT) - AI Potential in Startups" at the SAXEED Summer Festival in Villa Rosenberg.

11.6.2024: The leading publisher of neurorobotics, Frontiers, has published a new editorial today! Be sure to check it out here.

5.6.2024: We will be visited by Dr. Griffiths, Principal Consultant at adesso and expert in NLP, Conversational AI, & VoiceAI.

1.6.2024: A robot competition for students is organised by RoboSAX in cooperation with the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) at Chemnitz University of Technology. In addition to the competition between various teams, Prof. Röhrbein will give a lecture on the topic of "Artificial Stupidity and Natural Intelligence". Furthermore, Martin Richter (Chair of Operating Systems) will also give a lecture in the field of swarm robotics.

30.5.2024: At 16:20 we will have a poster presentation in Rome at the "Fifth International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI".

26.5.2024: Our paper entitled "A Research Platform for Human-Robot-Interaction with Focus on Collaborative Assembly Scenarios" has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication RO-MAN.

22.5.2024: TU Chemnitz and BMW Leipzig met for the first transdisciplinary research workshop in Leipzig to consider their research collaboration. In a keynote speech, Prof. Dr. Röhrbein introduced the AI Lab at the Faculty of Computer Science at TU Chemnitz and its current research focus.

22.5.2024: Prof. Röhrbein was interviewed by MDR at the occasion of the approval of the European AI Act. The video is uploaded here.

13.5.2024: Our co-worker Sascha Kaden was featured in a 10-minute report on CHEMNITZ Aktuell about his work on the development of future-oriented robots for elderly care. Kaden, who is working on the topic "Participation instead of acceptance: Technology in the Everyday Life of Older People," regularly meets with informal caregivers in small groups at the city laboratory to determine their specific needs. He believes that robots can play a valuable role in helping elderly people maintain their independence and quality of life. The video is uploaded here.

27.4.2024: Sascha Kaden lead two discussions on the topics: "Artificial Intelligence in Education, for Learning and Teaching" and "Human-Robot Interaction in Industry 5.0 and Care - A Look into the Future" at the TUC Open Day. The presentation can be downloaded here.

17.4.2024: The ROBOTOPICS exhibition by Holger Dreissig is taking place again. This time with an analogue discussion about the digital, AI and robotics. The exhibition can currently be visited free of charge at the Unibibliotek 1st floor(Straße der Nation 33, 0911 Chemnitz). The exhibition will be open for six months. For more info click here.

16.4.2024: The third Saxon AI Congress takes place. This year's congress dives into relevant AI topics, discussing how AI can bring real benefits to businesses and society, shifting the focus from mere impressiveness to meaningful applications. It's full of practical insights, discussions, and ideas, where Prof. Röhrbein is also invited as an expert to talk about our AI Lab at TU Chemnitz.

5.4.2024: Our master student Gantogoo Oyunbat presents his work on "Low light monocular vision" at the AI for Robotics Workshop 2024 in Tilburg, Netherlands. His work on a U-net that transforms low-light monocular vision into more colourful images for further and more accurate image processing is summarised in a poster and can be viewed here.

29.3.2024: Prof. Röhrbein has been nominated as leader of the working group "Neurorobotics" in the Science and Technology Commitee of EBRAINS Germany.

29.3.2024: Great news: Our project proposal CORINNE - Cobots’ Relational Interface with Neuromorphic Networks and Events will be funded by the BMBF.

15.3.2024: Our paper "Weight Perturbation and Competitive Hebbian Plasticity for Training Sparse Excitatory Neural Networks" has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence WCCI 2024 to be held at Pacifico Yokohama in Japan.

6.3.2024: Discussion at the KaffeeSatz Chemnitz on the topic: "Artificial Intelligence in Education, for Learning and Teaching" with Sascha Kaden as speaker. The presentation can be downloaded here.

5.3.2024: Another paper by Saranraj Nambusubramaniyan has been accepted for the 5th International Conference on Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI. His work "Beyond Adam: Achieving Biological Fidelity with Dopamine, a Reward-based Optimizer for Accelerated Gradient-Free Learning" has been submitted to the biocomputation track.

3.3.2024: Saranraj Nambusubramaniyan has been invited to the Cosyne Conference to present his work on "Asynchronous Derivative-Free Learning Solving Synaptic Credit Assignment in Recurrent Neural Networks".

27.2.2024: "LEAD: Learning Decomposition for Source-free Universal Domain Adaptation" has been accepted for CVPR, the most competitive conference in Computer Vision with an acceptance rate typically as low as 25%.

4.2.2024: Prof Röhrbein gives a lecture at the Children's University on the topic "Why children are smarter than robots".

31.1.2024: Bastian Schindler is holding a practical project at Goethe Gymnasium Chemnitz. The aim is to give pupils a basic understanding of artificial intelligence, robot use and programming. The aim is to use a basic AI as a connection between sensors and two electric motors to enable a mobile robot to drive autonomously through a labyrinth.

18.1.2024: Our paper "Asynchronous Derivative-Free Learning Solving Synaptic Credit Assignment in Recurrent Neural Networks" has been accepted to Cosyne 2024.

11.1.2024: TUC Open Day What is the role of artificial intelligence in education, learning and teaching? Sascha Kaden gives you an insight into the possibilities of AI in this field.

2023

14.12.2023: We had our end-of-the-year event followed by a Christmas party and an open-ended visit of the local Christmas market!

7.12.2023: From now on we are member of the Center for Humans and Technology (MeTech).

6.12.2023: Kick-off event of our faculty's AI Lab which focuses on enhanced interaction, smart data & infrastructures and embodied ai. Seven post-doc positions are currently open for applications.

30.11.2023 || 19:00-20:30: Discussion at the Volkshochschule Chemnitz on the topic: "Artificial Intelligence in Education, for Learning and Teaching" with Sascha Kaden as speaker. The presentation can here be downloaded.

23.11.2023: PartWiss conference takes place. Our PhD student Sascha Kaden and Karola Köpferl present results of their study on the topic: "Participating instead of accepting: Technology in the Everyday Life of Older People", a report from the city lab of TU Chemnitz.

22.11-24.11.2023: FRoBio: Freiburg Robotics and Biology Conference - Bringing together nature and technology. Prof. Röhrbein is invited to give a talk about Neurorobotics.

21.11.2023: euRobotics Topic Group coordinators meeting in Hannover.

8.11.2023: Background Table discussion at the Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 in Berlin.

8.11.2023: Prof. Röhrbein is one of the speakers at the TU Munich Career Lounge on the topic of "Doctorate - and then? Career paths in science and industry".

02.11.2023 Prof. Röhrbein moderates the expert panel discussion "AI in Teaching".

30.10.2023 Our lab becomes part of the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community.

18.10.2023 Prof. Röhrbein was nominated to become a member of the Scientific Board of the Bial Foundation.

4.10.2023 Hybrid Societies Autumn school takes place, it will include scientific workshops (e.g. on sensors) and panel discussions with senior and mid-level (CRC) researchers, focusing on career paths after the PhD within and outside academia. There will also be sessions to present and further discuss ideas on how and in what form the research topics of the CRC can be continued. See the whole programme here.

23.9.2023 The annual Petersberg talks invite you to think, reflect and reconsider. This year's title is "Horn of plenty - or a field of unsolved problems? Timing, Antifragility and Sustainability in the Era of Deep Tech". Prof Röhrbein will give a general lecture on neurorobotics and how this field combines brain research, cognitive science and robotics.

14.9.2023 Our master student Oyunbat G. has received a PROMOS scholarship from DAAD for a semester abroad at Nagoya University (Japan).

14.8.2023 We welcome 2 internship students, Kausthubh K. from B.M.S. College of Engineering in Bengaluru (India) and Arda Öngül from Ege University Mechanical Engineering (Turkey) to our working group.

28.7.2023 Our paper "The BCM rule allows a spinal cord model to learn rhythmic movements" has just been accepted for Biological Cybernetics!

27.7.2023 Paper accepted for IEEE RO-MAN workshop on "Care Robots for Older Adults" on 28 August in Busan South Korea.

18.7.2023 Our Master's student Joris Liebermann demonstrated the Neurorobotic Mouse with functional whiskers at TU Dresden's Reinforcement Learning Research Group. The presentation highlighted a simulation approach where a Reinforcement Learning agent processes tactile data to decide actions.

12.7.2023 Successful project submission of PaxUnpARiA (Participatory exploration of possible technical support for caring relatives and elders to mitigate the risks of old-age security) by Jun.-Prof. Andreas Bischof, Karola Köpferl, Sascha Kaden and Prof. Florian Röhrbein to the Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung FNA.

5.7.2023 During the project day with students from Reichenbach Gymnasium, they had the exciting opportunity to program the navigation of a small mobile robot. They also had the opportunity to learn more about the fascinating subjects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics. The event aimed to engage and inspire the students in the fields of AI and robotics.

28.6.2023 Inaugural Lecture of Prof. Florian Röhrbein at the TU Chemnitz.

20.6.2023 Florian Röhrbein was elected as the new speaker of Forschungsschwerpunkt "Intelligente multimediale Systeme.

15.6.2023 Guest lecture by Prof. Dillmann on "Biologically motivated robotic systems: from simple organisms to humanoid robots"

13.6.2023 Our PhD student Sascha Kaden was accepted for the fully funded Doctoral Class in Technography at the TU Dortmund.

12.6.2023 Our master student Osama Abdelaal has received a PROMOS scholarship from DAAD for the Machine Learning summer school in Oxford!

11.6.2023 Faculty of Computer Science and Chair of Neurorobotics present highlights from research on the "Open Government Quarter" in Saxony's capital city

3.6.2023 Long Night of the Sciences: Prof. Röhrbein is available at the Technology & Informatics booth for open conversations and questions around the topic of AI-Technologies

16.5.2023 A new e-book has been published together with Prof. Senden from Maastricht University. doi:10.3389/fncom.2023.1203717

16.5.2023 The International Conference "Building Bridges for the Next Generations" takes place in Dresden, where Prof. Röhrbein is giving a Lighting Talk about "Brain-inspired Robots".

11.5.2023 Our PhD student Saranraj Nambusubramaniyan was accepted for the Doctoral Class in Neurophysics at EPFL!

4.5.2023 As part of the kick-off event for the Saxon State Award for design, Prof. Röhrbein presents a vision pitch on the topic "Kann KI kreativ sein?"

25.4.2023 Our contribution entitled "Event-Based Sensor Fusion in Human-Machine Teaming" has been accepted for the 60th Ilmenau Scientific Colloquium

19.4.2023 Die BVMW-Unternehmerveranstaltung in Neukirchen dreht sich um das Thema "ChatGPT: Freund oder Feind des Mittelstands?". Die Veranstaltung diskutiert die Vor- und Nachteile der fortschrittlichen Chat-Technologie und wie sie sich auf den Mittelstand auswirkt. Prof. Dr. Florian Röhrbein wird als Referent auftreten und sein Experten Wissen zu diesem Thema teilen.

5.4.2023 In diesem Vortrag wird das Genre "Science Fiction" mit den Vorstellungen bzw. Ergebnissen der künstlichen Intelligenz gegenübergestellt. Es wird auf wichtige Kernfragen zum Thema Robotik wie z.B.https://www.neuromonster.org/biocomputation "Werkzeug oder Bedrohung" sowie Kreativität einer Künstlichen Intelligenz eingegangen.

16.3.2023 Two posters and a talk have been delivered to the 1^st Conference on Hybrid Societies.

14.3.2023 Our workshop on bio- and brain-inspired robotics at ERF in Odense (Denmark) has attracted almost 100 participants!

11.3.2023 Join our robotic workshop for school kids! Details at https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2023/de/programm/junior

8.3.2023 New TUCscicast on "Nimmt uns ChatGPT bald die Arbeit weg- oder ab?"

7.3.2023 The production for the TV experiment of the MDR, for the comparison of student work and machine-generated work of ChatGPT, is finished. The premiere will be on March 9 at 20:15 in the "Voss & Team" show.

27.2.2023 Our paper entitled "Upcycling Models under Domain and Category Shift" has been accepted for CVPR 2023. CVPR is maybe the most competitive conference in computer vision, with an acceptance rate this year as low as 25%.

9.2.2023: Final preparations for the TV recording with team Voss from MDR.

8.2.2023 First event of serious discussions with elderly people about their expectations and requirements regarding robots.

3.2.2023 The Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism (SMWK) presents their research agenda for the remaining decade "SPIN2030" at Congress Hall Leipzig. Selected exhibitors including 2 professorships from TU Chemnitz present their research.

2.1.2023Our proposal for a Go East Summer School has been accepted and will be funded by the DAAD. It is co-organized by our partner university, Politechnika Białostocka, and will take place in September.

2022

20.12.2022Our 7-DOF Robotic Arm (Franka Emika Panda Research 3) has finally been delivered, and now the practical research and testing of new algorithms can take place in further areas.

7.12.2022Invited talk at the 11th Forum of Convergence Eniso-Entreprises in Sousse, Tunisia

1.12.2022 Our workshop proposal on "Bio- and Brain-inspired Robotics" has been accepted for the European Robotics Forum, which will take place in Odense, DK.

November 2022

29.11.2022 Also, our third paper, "Policy Learning with Spiking Neural Networks for a Robot Manipulation Task," has been accepted for the International Conference on Hybrid Societies!"

28.11.2022 Our paper on "MLOps for Building a Human-in-the-Loop System for Continuous Learning in Mobile Robotic Vision" has been accepted for the 1st International Conference on Hybrid Societies.

19.11.2022 Talk at the International Final of the World Robotics Olympiade.

16.11.2022 new e-book has been published; the full pdf is available at https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/22638/insights-in-neurorobotics-2021

9.11.2022 Our paper on "Ubiquitous Semantics for Open World Robotics" has been accepted for the 1st International Conference on Hybrid Societies.

October 2022

28.10.2022 Talk at the 3rd trilateral symposium on artificial intelligence at the Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Japan.

21.10.2022 Audi Max: Prof. Röhrbein gives a "Seniorenkolleg" lecture about "Künstliche Intelligenz mit Körper: Auf dem Weg zu gehirn-inspirierter Robotik"

11.10.2022 Workshop proposal on "Bio- and Brain-inspired Robotics" submitted for the European Robotics Forum 2023.

September 2022

29.09.2022 The university management has approved funding for our Kulturhauptstadt project proposal, "Robotopics."

26.09.2022 Our Summer School on Neurorobotics was held with great participants selected from over 30 applications from all over the world.

17.09.2022 Talk on the occasion of the World Robot Olympiade German Finals.

August 2022

10.08.2022: The deadline for our Neurorobotics summer school scholarships is approaching.

5.08.2022 Both abstracts for the Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience 2022 have been accepted.

July 2022

20.07.2022:: The summer school website,, www.neurorobotics2022.de,, goes online!

18.07.2022 Two abstracts for BCCN submitted: “Trajectory learning for an iCub arm generated by CPGs” and “Scalable Layer-Parallel Readout Training Rule for Self-Organizing Recurrent Neural Networks.”

13.07.2022 Guest scientist Sanqing Qu will join our group for 1 year after his successful application for a scholarship awarded by the China Scholarship Council

7.07.2022 One of our articles is showcased on IEEE Xplore Innovation Spotlight; details are are at https://innovate.ieee.org/innovation-spotlight/improving-autonomous-driving-with-event-based-neuromorphic-vision/

4.07.2022 My journal Frontiers in Neurorobotics now has a Journal Impact Factor of 3,493,, which is an increase by more than 30%

June 2022

27.06.2022 Our lab is a member of euRobotics, a Brussels-based international non-profit association for all stakeholders in European robotics

25.06.2022 Talk at Sächsischer Landtag on the occasion of “25 Jahre Sächsischer Informatikwettbewerb“

24.06.2022 We successfully applied to hold a summer school on neurorobotics in Chemnitz!

23.06.2022 abstract for KogWis, the biannual conference of the German Cognitive Science Society, has been accepted

17.06.2022 TUC Science Podcast Episode 06 is available: „Wie künstliche Gehirne die Robotik der Zukunft prägen könnten“, see https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/tu/pressestelle/2022/06.17-14.23.html

May 2022

24.05.2022 Cooperation on a robotic mouse with Prof. Schmidt and TUM has been kicked-off

18.05.2022 Our GPU SuperWorkstation has arrived!!

12.05.2022 Abstract for KogWis submitted: “Demands and potentials of different levels of neuro-cognitive models for human spatial cognition”

9.05.2022 Paper accepted for publication in Frontiers in Robotics and AI, free access at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2022.799644

6.05.2022:: Invitation to speak at the 3rd Japanese-German-French AI Symposium in Tokyo

April 2022

28.04.2022 new special issue entitled “Horizons in Neurorobotics 2022,,” which I am editing together with Hang Su (Fondazione Politecnico di Milano) and Poramate Manoonpong (Professor at University of Southern Denmark),,

5.04.2022 Our abstract has been accepted for the FENS Forum, Europe’s largest international neuroscience conference

March 2022

25.03.2022 Kulturhauptstadt project proposal submitted: Robotopics: Roboter in der Populärkultur des Science Fiction Films

17.03.2022 A paper published in iScience, a journal with an impact factor of 6.1! Details at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104083

February 2022

22.02.2022 Abstract for FENS submitted: “The Role of the Superior Colliculus in Attention-Desiring Tasks: A Computational Model”

January 2022

31.01.2022:: Manuscript deadline for “Insights in Neurorobotics: 2021,,” which I am editing together with Jun Tani (Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

13.01.2022 Talk at University Information Day “TUCtag” for Bachelor students interested in Neurorobotics

2021

December 2021

24.12.2021:: New abstract deadline for our special issue “The Embodied Brain: Computational Mechanisms of Integrated Sensorimotor Interactions with a Dynamic Environment,, Vol.. II,,” which I am editing together with Mario Senden (Maastricht University)

News

February 2025

January 2025

December 2024

November 2024

October 2024

September 2024

August 2024

July 2024

June 2024

May 2024

April 2024

March 2024

February 2024

January 2024

December 2023

November 2023

October 2023

September 2023

August 2023

July 2023

June 2023

May 2023

April 2023

March 2023

February 2023

January 2023

December 2022