TIAGo robot helping in kitchen in the Cognitive Service Robotics Apartment lab

Researchers around the world can access our Virtual Research and Training Building.

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Breaking new ground in AI-enabled robotics

Our Vision: The Joint Research Center on Cooperative and Cognition-enabled AI (CoAI JRC) is Germany’s leading center for interdisciplinary research and innovation on cooperative and cognition-enabled artificial intelligence that features human-centered, embodied, and real-world agency in the sense that it is capable of acting together with humans in a meaningful and goal-directed manner.

The central hypothesis of CoAI is that AI systems need to be equipped with powerful cognitive, reasoning, communicative and interaction abilities to successfully act in the physical and social world. They have to understand and reason about their own actions and those of others as a basis to provide contextualized support for the wellbeing of humans and society at large.

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Robot arm helping a human with an injured hand

AI that works cooperatively in human physical and social environments

Our Mission: The researchers of CoAI JRC join forces to break new ground in the communication and interaction of humans and robots by developing AI systems that have a deep and actionable understanding of how to perform everyday joint tasks in natural human environments. The AI systems targeted by CoAI are able to successfully act in the physical and social world by adapting and learning new skills through cooperating and communicating with their human partners to eventually become competent and trustworthy partners.

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Discover our virtual research and training building

Openness is the most efficient and sustainable approach to successful innovation in our current fast-moving AI research environment. This is why the CoAI Center aims to provide external researchers with convenient access to a Virtual Research and Training Building (ViB), which will enable scientists from anywhere in the world to work as if the are physically present in our labs. In the ViB, members of the international CoAI research community have access to AI-ready digital twin robots, research laboratories, and environments to conduct research in AI-enabled robotics, human-robot interaction, education science and developmental robotics. We also support a variety of open data and open software tools, such as the cognitive robot architecture CRAM.

Operating a digital twin PR2 in a virtual kitchen lab
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News & Events

Katharina Rohlfing and Britta Wrede (left to right)
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Building trust in science for UNESCO World Science Day

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News
26.01.24

“FAME” Research Initiative by the CoAI JRC’s Michael Beetz will Enable Robots to Visualize Future Actions

An important challenge for cooperative and cognition-enabled robotics is to develop robots that have the ability to consider different possible courses of action and their likely outcomes before selecting one. This is especially important for robots that are engaged in joint tasks with human partners in which the sub-tasks and individual steps have not yet […]
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News
17.01.24

CoAI Virtual Building Featured in Up2Date

The CoAI Virtual Research and Training Building is featured in the latest issue of up2date, the online magazine of the University of Bremen: “Tall windows, a wide, bright hallway, a mirrored elevator: the virtual research building on cognitive-based AI can be entered like a location in a computer game which is waiting to be explored. […]
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15.01.2024, 16:00 - 18:00

Talk by Johanna Seibt on the Problem of Artificial “Social Others”

Title: The Problem of Artificial “Social Others”: How Much Sociality Do We Need for Hybrid Intelligence? Abstract: Co-working, co-creating, cooperation, collaboration—social interactions among humans take many different forms even when the single actions involved are functionally similar: What we take ourselves to be doing together, depends on how we do it together. This raises a […]
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The CoAI JRC Is Part of a Thriving AI Research Ecosystem

The CoAI JRC is embedded in a network of independent projects, research initiatives, and partners in industry and the public sector that collectively form a thriving ecosystem of research in AI and robotics.

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Educational Resources

 

A comparison of discrete and continuous prominence perception methods in German (2025)

Authors: Anna Bruggeman, Marcin Włodarczak, Petra Wagner
Published at: Speech Communication (Volume: 168)
10.1016/j.specom.2024.103165

Beyond one-shot explanations: a systematic literature review of dialogue-based xAI approaches (2025)

Authors: Dimitry Mindlin, Fabian Beer, Leonie Nora Sieger, Stefan Heindorf, Elena Esposito, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Philipp Cimiano
Published at: Artificial Intelligence Review (Volume: 58)
10.1007/s10462-024-11007-7

Designing and Evaluating an Adaptive Virtual Reality System using EEG Frequencies to Balance Internal and External Attention States (2025)

Authors: Francesco Chiossi, Changkun Ou, Carolina Gerhardt, Felix Putze, Sven Mayer
Published at: International Journal of Human Computer Studies (Volume: 196)
10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103433

Within-subject reliability, occasion specificity, and validity of fluctuations of the Stroop and go/no-go tasks in ecological momentary assessment (2025)

Authors: Justin Hachenberger, Axel Mayer, Denny Kerkhoff, Friederike Eyssel, Stefan Fries, Tina B. Lonsdorf, Hilmar Zech, Lorenz Deserno, Sakari Lemola
Published at: Behavior Research Methods (Volume: 57)
10.3758/s13428-024-02567-1

Blink: Blank Node Matching Using Embeddings (2025)

Authors: Alexander Becker, Mohamed Ahmed Sherif, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
Published at: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Volume: 15231 LNCS)
10.1007/978-3-031-77844-5_12

Numerical Literals in Link Prediction: A Critical Examination of Models and Datasets (2025)

Authors: Moritz Blum, Basil Ell, Hannes Ill, Philipp Cimiano
Published at: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Volume: 15231 LNCS)
10.1007/978-3-031-77844-5_2

Empowering User Security Awareness and Risk Assessment Within Gamified Smartphone Environment (2025)

Authors: Mehrdad Bahrini, Joffrey Weglewski, Karsten Sohr, Rainer Malaka
Published at: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Volume: 15192 LNCS)
10.1007/978-3-031-74353-5_2

Lexicalization Is All You Need: Examining the Impact of Lexical Knowledge in a Compositional QALD System (2025)

Authors: David Maria Schmidt, Mohammad Fazleh Elahi, Philipp Cimiano
Published at: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Volume: 15370 LNAI)
10.1007/978-3-031-77792-9_7

Preface (2025)

Authors: Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona, Gabriel Zachmann, Monica Bordegoni, Jian Chen, Giannis Karaseitanidis, Alain Pagani, Patrick Bourdot
Published at: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Volume: 15445 LNCS)

From Pixels to Feelings: Exploring Game Elements for Eliciting Empathy Toward Refugees (2025)

Authors: Ameneh Safari, Aswathi Surendran, Ioannis Bikas, Mehrdad Bahrini, Anke V. Reinschluessel, Rainer Malaka
Published at: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Volume: 15192 LNCS)
10.1007/978-3-031-74353-5_19
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Philipp Cimiano
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Philipp Cimiano

Bielefeld University
CoAI speaker
Michael Beetz
© Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen

Michael Beetz

University of Bremen
CoAI speaker
Katharina Rohlfing
© Susanne Freitag

Katharina Rohlfing

Paderborn University
CoAI speaker
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