Bionic Intelligence
Tübingen Stuttgart
A collaboration of the University of Stuttgart, University of Tübingen, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, part of Cyber Valley.
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The Center for Bionic Intelligence Tübingen Stuttgart (BITS) will
support to establish a radically new approach for the tight integration of intelligent technological systems with humans. At its culmination, we will be able to overcome technical limitations of current treatment and support systems for neural diseases, compensating for deficiencies and restoring intelligent bodily functions. This will markedly reduce the ever-increasing societal burden of psychiatric and neurological diseases.
Human embodied intelligence results from the smart interplay between neural information processing and physical properties of the body, both tightly integrated in a closed-loop fashion. Such an interplay must be extended to systems that integrate humans with technology.
The BITS Center uniquely combines the complementary excellence of the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen and the associated Max Planck Institutes for Intelligent Systems and Biological Cybernetics as ideal setting and fits perfectly in the regional academic-industrial ecosystem.
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BITS at 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2025
The Stuttgart BITS representatives, Sabine Ludwigs and Syn Schmitt, had the honor of representing the University of Stuttgart at the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2025 with their exhibition booth on „Soft Robotics with Smart Polymers“.
They were part of the Science Exhibition hosted by the Länd Baden-Württemberg aboard the MS Sonnenkönigin, which went from Bregenz Harbour to Mainau Island on 4th of July 2025.
The boat trip was officially opened by Ministerial Director Dr. Hans J. Reiter from the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts. During the event, Sabine Ludwigs gave a three-minutes plenary pitch on the role of BITS within “The Nerd Länd”.
This year’s meeting focused on the field of Chemistry, and brought together 33 Nobel Laureates and 604 Young Scientists.
Lindau, July 4, 2025
[Pictures by Patrick Kunkel / Torben Nuding, Lindau Laureate Meetings]
Grand opening of the Bionic Intelligence Center Tübingen Stuttgart (BITS)
Inauguration ceremony at the Klösterle in the Kepler City of Weil der Stadt
The research network Bionic Intelligence Tübingen Stuttgarter (BITS) was officially opened on May 20, 2025. BITS is a joint initiative of the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen and the Max Planck Institutes for Intelligent Systems and for Biological Cybernetics with the aim of developing intelligent bionic systems for the diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.
Date: May 21, 2025
[Pictures by Ludmilla Parsyak / IMSB University of Stuttgart]
