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Initiative of the Max Planck Society on Autonomous Systems

The Max Planck Society is developing an Institute that represents a major investment in the area of Autonomous Systems. The Institute will be located in Stuttgart and Tübingen, Germany. The goal will be to investigate and understand the organizing principles of autonomous systems that successfully interact with complex environments, and to use this understanding to design future systems. The Institute will study these principles in material, biological, bio-hybrid, and computational systems. The Institute is novel in its interdisciplinary study of autonomous systems ranging from nano to macro scales. By combining theory, computation, material science, and biology, the Institute will explore fundamental issues in perception, action and learning.

The Institute will pursue research on a broad range of topics in autonomous systems; examples include:

1. Synthesis of autonomous behavior in molecular, nano, and microscopic systems; e.g. novel materials that sense, move, and learn
2. Computational models of perception, action, learning, and inference; e.g. computer vision, robotics, and machine learning
3. Analysis and programming of cellular behavior and cellular machines
4. Theoretical models of perception-action systems; e.g. game-theoretic and evolutionary models
5. Molecular machines and the synthesis of novel autonomous systems using RNA, DNA, and proteins
6. Biological or synthetic self assembly of autonomous systems
7. Micro/nano-robotics including applications in medicine
8. Synthesis of autonomous behavior in macro systems; e.g. advanced robotic and/or perception systems

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