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» Published on 1. Juli 2016

CITEC Robot Floka Makes First Appearance at RoboCup World Championship

Team of Bielefeld University (ToBi) traveling to Leipzig for RoboCup championship 

Floka the robot is designed to assist people, as needed, to safely cope with the stress of everyday situations in their own home. As part of a large-scale research project at the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University, the researchers are equipping Floka with the necessary capabilities to do this. The Bielefeld robot will now compete in its first RoboCup world championship. From 30 June – 4 July, Floka and his already established robotic colleague Tobi will compete in the ten events of the household service league “RoboCup@Home” in order to make it into the finale. The robots will be competing against 23 opponents.  

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» Published on 30. Juni 2016

Bielefeld Engineering Team Wants to Revolutionize Industry 4.0 and the Cloud

State government of North Rhine-Westphalia funding a start-up from CITEC researchers at Bielefeld University

Seven researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University impressed the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Science with their start-up paraXent in the start-up contest “START-UP-Hochschul-Ausgründungen NRW” (University Start-Up Spin-Offs North Rhine-Westphalia). The team was able to win over the jury of experts with its ideas and was granted a funding award of approximately 250,000€. The funding period begins on 1 July 2016. 

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» Published on 28. Juni 2016

Shellfish study published this month

New technologies and techniques used in a scientific study of the shells of oysters, mussels, clams and scallops reveal clues about how these commercially valuable species may fare in a changing world, and how discarded shells from the aquaculture industry could benefit the environment.

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» Published on 22. Juni 2016

Mental Training for Soccer Tactics

CITEC researchers have developed a new mental training technique for athletes    

It’s not only controlling the ball, physical endurance, and dexterity that matter when it comes to playing soccer. Members of a soccer team also have to be at the top of their game when it comes to tactical strategy. Researchers at the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University have developed a mental training technique that helps soccer players improve their tactical action. The “kicker” here is that the players can practice with this method without actually being on the playing field. 

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» Published on 22. Juni 2016

Service Robot Floka’s Big Debut

Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology presents its “Home with a Brain” at the Automatica trade fair in Munich

What must an intelligent apartment provide in order to make everyday life safe, healthy, and comfortable? The Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) will give a glimpse into the home of the future from 21–24 June 2016 at Automatica, the international trade fair for automation and mechantronics held in Munich. Under the banner “A Home with a Brain,” CITEC will exhibit its new research developments at Stand 315 in Hall B4. Here, the service robot Floka will be debuted to the public for the first time. Floka is fitted with a new “social” robotic head that was also developed at CITEC whose facial expressions can signal happiness, worry, interest, or anger.     

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» Published on 6. Juni 2016

How the brain merges the senses

Scientists from Cluster of Excellence CITEC unveil the mechanisms of multisensory processing in a new publication in “Nature Communications“ 

Utilizing information from all the senses is critical for building a robust and rich representation of our surroundings. Given the wealth of multisensory information constantly bombarding us, however, how does our brain know which signals go together and thus need to be combined? And how does it integrate such related signals? Scientists from the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have proposed a computational model that explains multisensory integration in humans utilizing a surprisingly simple processing unit. This research, funded by the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, appears in the current issue of “Nature Communications”.

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» Published on 3. Juni 2016

Appeal to treat each other with respect at Bielefeld University

Dear students and employees of Bielefeld University,

Universities have to be more than just institutions for studying, teaching, and research. Students should also pursue their personal development during their studies. Alongside study courses and teaching, Bielefeld University offers a range of ways to get involved – be it in university politics, music, the arts, sports, or intercultural cooperation.

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» Published on 1. Juni 2016

A Mirror that Knows Your Schedule and a Door that Knows the Bus Timetable

Bielefeld University welcomed the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to CITEC  

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall…” The mirror of the future can answer questions, help out with brushing one’s teeth, or remind one of upcoming appointments. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF), the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University is developing a “thinking” home entrance area equipped with a smart mirror and intelligent door as part of the Cluster of Innovation KogniHome. CITEC is working with 13 regional partners on this project. As the project is reaching its halfway point, representatives from the BMBF visited CITEC and the PIKSL Laboratory of the v. Bodelschwingh Bethel Foundation on 30 May 2016 to experience for themselves the technologies being developed for KogniHome.   

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» Published on 9. Mai 2016

New Marie Curie Network in economics

Bielefeld University to coordinate the ExSIDE programme; six nations participating  

With roughly 3.8 million Euros over the next four years, the European Commission is funding a new Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network in the field of economics at Bielefeld University. The topic: How do expectations come about and what role do they play in economic decisions and economic policymaking? An example: I’ve been offered a job, but it does not pay that well. Should I take the job anyway? Or do I expect to find a job elsewhere that will pay better? The name of the programme ExSIDE stands for ‘Expectations and Social Influence Dynamics in Economics’.

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» Published on 9. Mai 2016

A Search Engine for Arguments

Bielefeld University leading new priority program in cooperation with universities from Bremen Duisburg-Essen, Leipzig, and Weimar  

Discussions on the Internet are hard to analyze, whether it is controversy over the trade agreement TTIP (Transatlantic Treaty and Investment Partnership between Europe and the United States), or the debate on refugees. These conversations sometimes take place over the course of years, and millions of participants may have their say. A new priority program funded by the German Research Foundation is working to shed light on this problem: starting in 2017, researchers from across Germany will work on a search engine for arguments. These technical systems will be designed to analyze, for instance, how groups such as PEGIDA, the far right, anti-Islamic movement, or anti-globalization activists, argue in online discussions. Bielefeld University is leading the program “Ratio” in cooperation with the Jacobs University Bremen, the University of Duisburg-Essen, Leipzig University, and the Bauhaus University Weimar.

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