History

The Institute is a major new undertaking of the Max Planck Society with significant resources necessary to advance an innovative multidisciplinary approach to autonomous systems.

MPIs have an established record of world-class, fundamental research in the fields of medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, technology and humanities. Since 1948, MPI researchers have won 17 Nobel prizes.

The new effort on Autonomous Systems aspires to meet the highest standards of excellence and international recognition while breaking new ground in the understanding of the principles of perception, action, learning, and inference in systems ranging from molecules to machines.