28 April 2015 | Tuebingen

Laying of the cornerstone in Tübingen

Vision of „Robotics Valley“ in the Neckar-Region

Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf,Dr. Stefan Schaal, Dieter Broghammer, Dr. Michael J. Black, Science Minister Theresia Bauer, Max Planck President Prof. Dr. Martin Stratmann, Mayor Boris Palmer, University Rektor Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler.

The Max-Planck-Society constructs a new building for the Tübingen location of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. On 27. April 2015 the laying of the cornerstone for that ambitious project took place on the Max Planck Campus Tübingen. From 2017 onwards the new building will provide more than 250 workplaces for scientists and staff. The future-oriented research on intelligent systems will then be performed by scientists in four scientific departments.

120 guests celebrated the laying of the cornerstone, among them representatives from science, politics and industry. The Science Minister of Baden-Württemberg Theresia Bauer, Max-Planck-President Prof. Dr. Martin Stratmann, the Mayor of Tübingen Boris Palmer, the Rektor of the University of Tübingen Prof. Dr. Bernd Engler, the Architect and the Directors of the MPI for Intelligent Systems joined in filling a time-capsule and to plunge it into the cornerstone (see pictures).

The "time capsule" was filled with research papers and research reports, actual coins, actual issues of Stuttgart and Tübingen newspapers and a Tübingen beerkeg.

Prof. Dr. Martin Stratmann, President of the Max Planck Society, explains his vision of intelligent systems research and of a future "Robotics Valley" in the Neckar-Region.