The TriFORCE project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), led by Prof. Dr. Carlo D'Eramo, at the University of Würzburg (JMU), is seeking 1 Ph.D. student with a strong interest in Reinforcement Learning and its application to robotics problems. Every student with a master degree and a strong passion for Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, and AI, is strongly encouraged to apply!

The situation in the eurozone is much more fragile than in the U.S. Gopinath: It's true, high-energy prices are a particular burden on countries like Germany, whose economy is very dependent on energy imports. At least the Federal Republic has done better than expected; we had expected GDP growth to have slowed to 1.5 percent in 2022. Measured against that, it has done better, up 1.9 percent. Now, it seems that overall inflation may have already peaked. Gopinath: But core inflation – i.e., price increases excluding energy and food prices – is stubbornly high and will probably only start to fall toward the end of the year.

Vattenfall is one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible within one generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.

On a recent afternoon Jonas Thiel, a socioeconomics major at a college in northern Germany, spent more than an hour chatting online with some of the left-wing political philosophers he had been studying. These were not the actual philosophers but virtual recreations, brought to conversation, if not quite life, by sophisticated chatbots on a website called Character.AI. Mr. Thiel's favorite was a bot that imitated Karl Kautsky, a Czech-Austrian socialist who died before World War Two. When Mr. Thiel asked Kautsky's digital avatar to provide some advice for modern-day socialists struggling to rebuild the worker's movement in Germany, Kautsky-bot suggested that they launch a newspaper. "They can use it not only as a means of spreading socialist propaganda, which is in short supply in Germany for the time being, but also to organize working class people," the bot said. Kautsky-bot went on to argue that the working classes would eventually "come to their senses" and embrace a modern-day Marxist revolution.

THURSDAY, Jan. 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with Lynch syndrome (LS), artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted colonoscopy is promising for detecting adenomas, especially flat adenomas, according to a study published online Dec. 26 in the United European Gastroenterology Journal. Robert Hüneburg, M.D., from the National Center for Hereditary Tumor Syndromes at University Hospital Bonn in Germany, and colleagues examined the diagnostic performance of AI-assisted colonoscopy compared with high-definition white-light endoscopy (HD-WLE) in adult patients with LS, with a pathogenic germline variant (MLH1, MHS2, MHS6) and at least one previous colonoscopy (interval, 10 to 36 months). A total of 96 patients were included in the analysis. The researchers found that adenomas were detected in 12 of 46 and 18 of 50 patients in the HD-WLE and AI arms, respectively (26.1 versus 36.0 percent). Detection of flat adenomas (Paris classification 0 to IIb) was increased significantly with use of AI-assisted colonoscopy (numbers of detected flat adenomas: 17 of 30 versus four of 20).

Therefore, he was among the first to put OpenAI's novel "text-to-image" system DALL E 2 through rigorous testing for possible errors, potential dangers and also in view of its possibilities, before it was unleashed on humanity. From the very first images the system produced, it was clear that this was a milestone of epochal proportions, leaving its predecessors far behind. This is undoubtedly only a snapshot in an exponential, almost explosive development. Because this is where the human claim to sole representation of creativity comes under pressure. DALL E 2 is part of the most successful Large Language Model to date "GPT3" and therefore can draw on a large part of what has been published on the Internet as its "educational treasure".

Based in Augsburg, Germany, the firm will showcase three of its new products at CES 2023 - Apogee, Smart SafetyVest, and the German Bionic IO platform. German Bionic was a pioneer in the field of wearable suits when it became the first firm to introduce connected exoskeletons for workplaces. The suit supports users in lifting movements and prevents poor posture. The award-winning Cray X exoskeleton, which is featured in the CES 2023 "Best of Innovation" (Wearable Technologies) category, will be available for demonstrations at the event from January 5-8. According to the US Institute of Medicine, the economic burden of workplace Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDs) is measured by absenteeism, compensation costs, lost wages and lost productivity which equals US$ 45 – 54 billion annually in the US alone.

A robot called Golfi is the first to be able to autonomously spot and travel to a golf ball anywhere on a green and sink a putt. Golf-playing robots have been developed before, but they have needed humans to set them up in front of a ball and program them to make the correct swing. The most famous is LDRIC, a robot that hit a lengthy hole-in-one at Arizona's TPC Scottsdale golf course in 2016. In contrast, Golfi, engineered by Annika Junker at Paderborn University in Germany and her colleagues, can find golf balls and wheel itself into place thanks to input from a 3D camera that looks down on a green from above. The camera scans the green and an algorithm then approximates the surface before simulating 3000 golf swings towards the hole from random points, taking into account factors such as the speed and weight of the ball and the friction of the green, which are described by physics-based equations.

As humans, we perceive the three-dimensional structure of the world around us with apparent ease. Think of how vivid the three-dimensional percept is when you look at a vase of flowers sitting on the table next to you. You can tell the shape and translucency of each petal through the subtle patterns of light and shading that play across its surface and effortlessly segment each flower from the background of the scene (Figure 1.1). Looking at a framed group por- trait, you can easily count (and name) all of the people in the picture and even guess at their emotions from their facial appearance. Perceptual psychologists have spent decades trying to understand how the visual system works and, even though they can devise optical illusions1 to tease apart some of its principles (Figure 1.3), a complete solution to this puzzle remains elusive (Marr 1982; Palmer 1999; Livingstone 2008).

A gearbox driven by an external magnetic field can power tiny but powerful robots that crawl like a caterpillar or jump almost 40 times their own height, despite having no batteries or motors on board. The technology could lead to medical robots that can travel through the human body, taking samples or delivering drugs. Soft robots – which have no batteries, motors or electronics and are powered and controlled remotely by light or magnets – are a popular field of research because their simplicity enables them to be highly miniaturised. But they may be lacking in power when the task requires puncturing skin or opening collapsed cavities. Now, Chong Hong at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany and his colleagues have created a gearbox that measures around 3 millimetres across and is equipped with cogs as small as 270 micrometres in diameter.