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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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.
May 21, 2025
[Picture: Ludmilla Parsyak / IMSB University of Stuttgart]
Contactless, precise, pioneering: Muscle Monitoring with Quantum Sensors
A research team led by PD Dr. Justus Marquet and from the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research at the University of Tübingen and the University of Stuttgart has developed two methods that allow muscle activity and training-induced adaptations to be measured completely contactlessly. The studies, published in the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology and the Journal of Neural Engineering, demonstrate that magnetic fields generated during muscle activity can be captured using highly sensitive quantum sensors – without the need for electrodes or skin contact.
Tübingen, 07.05.2025
