News (2023)

Under the project TERAIS, Knowledge Technology is co-organizing the Trustworthy Human-Robot Interaction Summer School (THRISS) in 2024 in Bratislava. THRISS will take place on 10–13 June 2024 at the...

During the Christmas season, our group has celebrated an "International Potluck Dinner". Everyone brought some of their traditional food, we gave presents to each other, played some games and...

Our group has a new paper published in EMNLP2023.

Title: Visually Grounded Continual Language Learning with Selective Specialization

Authors: Kyra Ahrens, Lennart Bengtson, Jae Hee Lee, Stefan Wermter

The first meeting of the TRAIL project took place in Manchester (UK) between November 20th-21st. TRAIL is a new EU project which focuses on Transparent, InterpretabLe Robots. It is a Doctoral Network...

Our journal article “Whose Emotion Matters? Speaking Activity Localisation without Prior Knowledge” is available online in Neurocomputing. In this study, we address the longstanding lack of reliable...

Our journal article “Learning Bidirectional Action-Language Translation with Limited Supervision and Testing with Incongruent Input” is available online in the international journal of Applied...

Our journal article “Snapture—a Novel Neural Architecture for Combined Static and Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition” is now available online in the journal Cognitive Computation. In this paper, we...

The Knowledge Technology group at the University of Hamburg announces the official release of the NICOL robot environment for the CoppeliaSim simulator. The open-source research platform NICOL...

Between September 26th-29th, Prof. Wermter and our group members Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Josua Spisak, Matthias Kerzel, Martin Gromniak, Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Patrick Eickhoff, Zeynep Birinci and...

Presentation of an experimental setup of  the NICOL robot by our scientific staff Philipp

The 2023 Summer School of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre on "Crossmodal Learning" (CML) took...

On a sunny Tuesday in September, our group had a fun summer event playing "Boßeln" at Fischbeker Heide. Congratulations, team "Even" for winning!

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The Knowledge Technology (WTM) group in the Department of Computer Science has an immediate opening for a Student Assistant (40 hrs/month) to participate in research projects on the NICOL...

Our group has a new paper published at RO-MAN 2023..

Title: The Robot in the Room: Influence of Robot Facial Expressions and Gaze on Human-Human-Robot Collaboration

Authors: Di Fu, Fares Abawi, and...

Our group has a new paper published at RO-MAN 2023..

Title: The Emotional Dilemma: Influence of a Human-like Robot on Trust and Cooperation

Authors: Dennis Becker, Diana Rueda, Felix Beese, Brenda...

Our group members Mengdi Li and Xufeng Zhao participated in the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) on July 23-29 in Honolulu, Hawaii, US. The presented paper "Internally Rewarded...

Knowledge Technology has got a journal article published in Cognitive Computation.

Title: Snapture—a Novel Neural Architecture for Combined Static and Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition
Authors: Hassan...

Dr. Matthias Kerzel, together with Erik Strahl and Franziska Schmidt, won first place of the University Video competition in the category of computer science with their video "NICO Robot." The video...

We introduce the novel semi-humanoid NICOL, the Neuro-Inspired COLlaborator. NICOL is a large, newly designed, scaled-up version of its well-evaluated predecessor, the Neuro-Inspired COmpanion...

Between May 15th and May 17th, the Knowledge Technology group welcomed the partners of the Horizon Europe project TERAIS. During the 3-day field trip, the visitors were introduced to the group, the...

The Knowledge Technology group is holding the seminar “Explainability and Robot Learning”, promoted by the Horizon Europe project TERAIS (Towards Excellent Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at a...

Knowledge Technology has got a paper accepted at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023). The conference will be held from the 23rd until 29th of July 2023 in Honolulu...

Knowledge Technology has got a journal article published in International Journal of Social Robotics.

Title: A trained humanoid robot can perform human-like crossmodal social attention and conflict...

Wishing you a blessed Easter from the Knowledge Technology team at Universität Hamburg!

Knowledge Technology is commencing a new research project "TRAIL: TRAnsparent, InterpretabLe Robots".

TRAIL is a new Doctoral Network project as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action funded by the European...

The special session invites contributions on recent advances in neurorobotics. Neurorobotics brings together interdisciplinary research in machine learning, robotics and bio-inspired artificial...

Knowledge Technology has got a journal article published in ACM Computing Surveys.

Title: Explainable Goal-driven Agents and Robots - A Comprehensive Review
Authors: Fatai Sado, Chu Kiong Loo, Wei...

Knowledge Technology is commencing a new research project “MoReSpace” – Modeling a Robot’s Peripersonal Space and Body Schema for Adaptive Learning and Imitation.

The MoReSpace project is funded by...

Q&A session for the students and lab staff

On February 23rd, a group of high school students from Denmark visited the Knowledge Technology group for an interactive experience with robotics. Led by our...

After three years the "Unitag" was back at the Universität Hamburg. This is a day to let school students find the best-fitting subject to study. The Knowledge Technology group with Dr. Philipp...

Knowledge Technology has got a journal article published in Neural Networks. 

Title: Emphasizing unseen words: New vocabulary acquisition for end-to-end speech recognition
Authors: Leyuan Qu, Cornelius...

Knowledge Technology hosted the first internship student from school since March 2020. The student worked on two small robots with the goal of a collaborative task. Knowledge Technology is happy to be...