The Biorobotics Lab at Free University Berlin is advancing the cross-pollination of robotics and biology. We strive to understand the most sophisticated technology there is: nature.
On the one hand, we use robots as tools in biology to understand more about biological systems. We, for example, have built a honeybee robot to study the bee dance and fish robots for the analysis of collective behavior in guppies.
On the other hand, every principle we discover in natural systems might have an application in technical systems, such as in swarms of autonomous cars.
The lab is part of the Dahlem Center of Machine Learning and Robotics at the Institute of Computer Science. We are involved in highly interdisciplinary, cooperative projects across various domains.
Team
The Biorobotics Lab is (from left to right): Sascha Wissmann, Jonas Piotrowski, Andreas Berg, David Bierbach, Kadir Tugan, Hauke Mönck, Janek Szynal, Julian Petrasch, Jakob Mischek, Tim & Theo Landgraf, David Dormagen, Rim Ettouri, Adrian Zachariae, Sascha Witte, Dimitra Psimmenou, Benjamin Wild, Peter Strümpel, Andreas Jörg, Leon Sixt, Fernando Wario. Missing on the photo but still members: Franziska Boenisch, Angelika Szengel, Hai Nguyen, Yanlei Li, Victor Brekenfeld, Patrick Winterstein
Address and Contact
Prof. Dr. Tim Landgraf
Free University Berlin
Institute for Computer Science
Arnimallee 7
14195 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 838 75 114
Mail: tim.landgraf [[AT]] fu-berlin.de
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BerlinBiorobotics Youtube Channel
Collaborations
We utterly enjoy working with these groups:
Prof. Dr. Jens Krause – Biologie und Ökologie der Fische, IGB Berlin
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Randolf Menzel – Neurobiologie, FU Berlin
Prof. Dr. Martin Paul Nawrot – Neuroinformatik, FU Berlin
Prof. Dr. James Nieh – Biological Sciences, UC San Diego
Prof. Dr. Gerhard von der Emde, Neuroethology, Uni Bonn