🔬 Government#35 Stuttgart/Tübingen, Germany· Est. 2011
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS)
One of Europe's premier robotics research institutes. Home to Bernhard Scholkopf (machine learning) and groundbreaking work in legged locomotion, dexterous hands, and tactile sensing.
locomotiondexterous manipulationperceptionsoft robotshaptics
Notable achievements
Locomotion control for legged robots, BioTac-inspired tactile sensors, dexterous manipulation research, Percepto-Motor Group, over 500 robotics publications.
Notable work
Legged locomotionTactile sensingDexterous hands
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
PERCEPTION
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DynaFLIP: Rethinking Robotics Perception via Tri-Modal-Dynamics Guided Representation
Jusuk Lee, Seungjae Lee, Jonghun Shin +6 more
2026
MANIPULATION
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Hand-in-the-Loop: Improving VLA Policies for Dexterous Manipulation via Seamless Hand-Arm Intervention
Zhuohang Li, Liqun Huang, Wei Xu +5 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Designing Soft Arms with Octopus-Like Dexterity: Insights from Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Finite Element Analysis.
Ahmadi S, Cummings S, Roy C +5 more
Soft robotics · 2026
MANIPULATION
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TactiDex: A Real-World Tactile-Guided Benchmark for Human-Like Dexterous Manipulation
Suting Ni, Hanbing Zhang, Zhenyu Wei +4 more
2026
PERCEPTION
Open access
Video Generation Models are General-Purpose Vision Learners
Letian Wang, Chuhan Zhang, Rishabh Kabra +9 more
2026
MANIPULATION
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DexVerse: A Modular Benchmark for Multi-Task, Multi-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation
Yunchao Yao, Zhuxiu Xu, Tianqi Zhang +12 more
2026