On 19 February 2012 at 13:10, Swiss TV station SF 1 will broadcast NZZ Standpunkte. In this show Rolf Pfeifer will be interviewed by two journalists for 50 minutes. It will be repeated on SF info at 18:25 on the same day.

Check our new AI Lab video teaser, made by MELS!

Our Sino-Swiss Science and Technology Cooperation (SSSTC) proposal has been accepted! This will enable us to more closely collaborate with the Autonomous Robot Laboratory at the Department of Automation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, whose director is Prof. Weidong Chen.

Former laboratory member Josh Bongard was among 94 young scientists chosen to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) this week. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Bongard will receive the award from U.S. President Barack Obama during a ceremony at the White House in Washington D.C. on October 14th.

The 2nd International Conference on Morphological Computation ICMC 2011 took place from 12–14 September 2011 in Venice.