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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About Us
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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Cutting-edge research at the Hannover Messe. Biorobotics for Tremor Suppression represented by BITS
The University of Stuttgart is showcasing biorobotics, green hydrogen production, digital solutions for businesses, and student space projects.
The exhibit: A biorobotic arm that suppresses tremors. The Center for Bionic Intelligence Tübingen Stuttgart (BITS) is introducing an assistive system for Parkinson’s patients designed to suppress tremors. Scientists from the Institute for Modeling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems (IMSB) at the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) explain how the arm simulates and compensates for tremors and why this function resembles that of noise-canceling headphones
[Picture: Allianz Industrie 4.0 BW/Daniel Möller Fotografie]
Hannover, 21 April 2026, No. 11
Pierre Schumacher receives RIG “Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award” at the German Robotics Conference 2026
Pierre Schumacher has been selected as one of the two recipients of the “RIG
Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award”, recognizing exceptional doctoral research in
robotics in Germany. The award was officially announced during the “RIG Heroes
Award Night 2026” at the German Robotics Conference 2026, organized by the
Robotics Institute Germany (RIG), in Cologne on March 12.
Cologne, 12 March 2026
