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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The University of Bonn has an opening for up to two Full Professorships (W3) in Artificial lntelligence and Machine Learning within the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Topics include world models and embodied AI. www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit...

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Max Schwarz successfully defended his PhD thesis "Efficient Learning from Synthetic Data and Immersive VR Televisualization for Robotic Avatars".

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Universität Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The #UniversityOfBonn remains among the universities with the strongest track records for research retaining 4th spot in Germany and 69th place worldwide in the recently published Academic Ranking of World Universities: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/163-... #ARWU #ShanghaiRanking © V. Lannert/Uni Bonn

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Today, Grzegorz Ficht successfully defended his PhD thesis "Analytic Centroidal Control with Mass Distribution Models for Humanoid Robots" www.ais.uni-bonn.de/~ficht

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Today, Grzegorz Ficht sucessfully defended his PhD thesis "Analytic Centroidal Control with Mass Distribution Models for Humanoid Robots" www.ais.uni-bonn.de/~ficht

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Press release of our university on the success of our domestic service robot team NimbRo@Home: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/044-...

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Award Ceremony for our team NimbRo winning the @Home League competition at #RoboCup German Open in Cologne. Further info: www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Our team NimbRo won the @Home League competition at #RoboCup German Open in Cologne. In the overall ranking, NimbRo achieved 200 points, followed by ToBi (University of Bielefeld, 57 points) and SCC (Ravensburg-Weingarten UAS, 38 points). Further info: www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We caught these ducks from the University of Bonn at the Rose Monday parade.

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Our paper Angel Villar-Corrales, Gjergj Plepi, and Sven Behnke: "TextOCVP: Object-Centric Video Prediction with Language Guidance" has been published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). #TextOCVP #TMLR #GenAI ais.uni-bonn.de/videos/TMLR_...

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Arul Selvam Periyasamy successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Efficient Methods for Learning Visual Multi-object 6D Pose Estimation and Tracking". www.ais.uni-bonn.de/~periyasa

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Andre Rochow today successfully defended his PhD thesis "Learning Image-Based VR Facial Animation and Face Reenactment".

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Jan Quenzel today successfully defended his PhD thesis "Efficient Real-time Calibration and Odometry for Dense Multi-Modal Mapping with UAVs".

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Awesome Team NimbRo@Home at #RoboCup2025 in Salvador, Brazil. www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

In the #RoboCup2025 @Home OPL Final, our robot performed very well. It opened two doors, removed trash, and closed a cabinet door. Overall, NimbRo came in second, next to team Tidyboy (Korea). www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Our team NimbRo@Home participates in the #robocup2025 domestic service robot competition in Salvador, Brazil. Despite much delayed arrival of the robots, NimbRo reached the final as runner-up. www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Dmytro Pavlichenko today successfully defended his PhD thesis "Efficient Learning and Optimization for Robotic Manipulator Motion Generation".

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I am proud father of a daughter who has completed her A-levels. The photo shows the advanced math course in which she achieved the perfect grade in the final exam.

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Our NimbRo@Home domestic service robots will be demonstrated at #automatica2025 in Munich at the Robotics Institute Germany (RIG) booth B4 421. exhibitors.automatica-munich.com/en/press-inf... www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #nimbro #rignetwork #roboticsgermany #AI #künstlicheintelligenz #unibonn

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Universität Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A landmark success! The University of Bonn secured funding for all six existing Clusters of Excellence and both new initiatives – more than any other German university. More: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/095-... © G. Hübl, V. Lannert, M. Thürbach/ECONtribute, J. F. Saba/UKB, S. Wegener/ML4Q; N. Wietrich

A collage with symbolic images of all eight clusters of excellence. A man working on a machine, an observatory, two people in a field, a woman writing something on a piece of paper, a woman in front of a device, a man writing something on a blackboard, an exhibition, a woman looking through a telescope.

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Malte Mosbach will present today 16:45 at #ICRA2025 in room 404 our paper: "Prompt-responsive Object Retrieval with Memory-augmented Student-Teacher Learning" www.ais.uni-bonn.de/videos/ICRA_...

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Wir suchen eine Abteilungsmanager*in, Entgeltgruppe 12 TV-L: www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

PLS Whitepaper by Beyerer, Kirchner, et al.: KI in der Robotik: Flexible und anpassbare Systeme durch interaktives Lernen. doi.org/10.48669/pls...

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Award ceremony for NimbRo winning RoboCup German Open @Home League. www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #robot #competition #RoboCup #NimbRo #Bonn #GermanOpen #servicerobots

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Our team NimbRo won the RoboCup@Home German Open competition. In the Finals, our robot understood spoken user requests, fulfilled one request, closed a cabinet door and opened the apartment door. www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #robot #competition #RoboCup #NimbRo #Bonn #GermanOpen #servicerobots

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Our robot scored in the Extended General-Purpose Service Robot and the Clean the Table tests. After Stage 2, NimbRo leads the RoboCup@Home German Open competition, followed by ToBI and SCC. www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #robot #competition #RoboCup #NimbRo #Bonn #GermanOpen #servicerobots

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

New paper by Spravil et al.: "Florenz: Scaling Laws for Systematic Generalization in Vision-Language Models" arxiv.org/abs/2503.09443

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

After the second competition day, NimbRo leads the @Home League at RoboCup German Open with 3276 points, followed by ToBI (U Bielelefeld, 1286 pts) and SCC (Ravensburg-Weingarten UAS, 1014 pts). www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #robot #competition #RoboCup #NimbRo #Bonn #GermanOpen #servicerobots

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

In the Stickler to the Rules test, our robot detected violations of the house rules and made the guests comply. This was rewarded with the highest number of points. www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #robot #competition #RoboCup #NimbRo #Bonn #GermanOpen #servicerobots

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Our robot received the highest number of points in the Storing Groceries test at RoboCup@Home German Open in Nürnberg. www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #robot #competition #RoboCup #NimbRo #Bonn #GermanOpen #servicerobots

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

After the first competition day, our team NimbRo leads the @Home League at RoboCup German Open with 1671 points, followed by ToBI (Univ. of Bielelefeld, 926 points) and SUTURO (U Bremen, 435 pts). www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #robot #competition #RoboCup #NimbRo #Bonn #GermanOpen #servicerobots

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

In the General-Purpose Service Robot Test, our robot had to understand commands from an naive operator and to perform the requested service. It received the highest number of points. www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #robot #competition #RoboCup #NimbRo #Bonn #GermanOpen #servicerobots

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

In the Receptionists task, our robot welcomed guests and introduced them to the other guests of a party. It received the highest number of points for this test at RoboCup @Home German Open. Info: www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #robot #competition #RoboCup #NimbRo #Bonn #GermanOpen #servicerobots

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Our team NimbRo participates at the RoboCup German Open competition in Nürnberg in the @Home league of the domestic service robots. Further info: www.ais.uni-bonn.de/nimbro/@Home #robot #competition #RoboCup #NimbRo #Bonn #GermanOpen #servicerobots

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Rose Monday parade: I caught a duckling from the University of Bonn.

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unser Geschäftszimmer. Bewerbungsfrist: 16.3.2025 www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

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Sven Behnke @sven-behnke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Job offer for Full Professorship (W3) in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at University of Bonn, Germany within the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Application deadline March 31st: www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit...

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Universität Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hello there! We’re excited to be here and share our latest research news and updates from our university with you. Stay tuned and follow us to make sure you don't miss anything from the #universityofbonn.

collage showing various people. a robot waves. a woman pulls a book from a shelf. a man puts something on an exhibition shelf. a woman examines something with a pipette.

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