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  • Our paper, “Forecasting in Offline Reinforcement Learning for Non-stationary Environments,” by Suzan Ece Ada, Georg Martius, Emre Ugur, and Erhan Oztop, has been accepted as a Spotlight presentation at the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025. link
  • Our paper, “Predictability-Based Curiosity-Guided Action Symbol Discovery“, by Burcu Kılıç, Alper Ahmetoğlu, and Emre Uğur is presented in the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2025.
  • Our paper titled “Skill Discovery by Effect Prediction and Intrinsic Exploration”, by Burcu Kılıç, Alper Ahmetoğlu, and Emre Uğur is selected the best senior project in the Bogazici University Computer Engineering department in Spring 2025.
  • Bora Toprak Temir is visiting Natsuki Yamanobe and Fumio Kanehiro at University of Tsukuba as a research student from June to September 2025.
  • Serdar Bahar is visiting Natsuki Yamanobe and Fumio Kanehiro at University of Tsukuba as a research student from June to August 2025.
  • Burcu Kılıç is visiting Justus Piater at Innsbruck University as a research student from June to September 2025.
  • 6 of our papers are accepted to SIU 2025. These papers include topics: Action Primitive Discovery, Related Task Representations, Backwards Planning via Vision-Language Models, Social Navigation for Robots, Inverse Skill Learning, Augmented Reality for Robotic Learning.
  • Our lab presented three studies at ICRA 2025:
    1. Correspondence Learning Between Morphologically Different Robots via Task Demonstrations
    2. Unsupervised Meta-Testing with Conditional Neural Processes for Hybrid Meta-Reinforcement Learning (UMCNP)
    3. Conditional Neural Expert Processes for Learning Movement Primitives from Demonstration
  • Our paper titled “RAMPA: Robotic Augmented Reality for Machine Programming and Automation” is accepted to the Journal of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Video Code
  • 05.09.2024 – Emre Uğur is presenting VPH Institute Conference at Stuttgart.
  • Bengisu Kübra Takkin is visiting Nagai Lab at Tokyo University as a research student.
  • Deniz Bilge Akkoç is visiting Erhan Oztop at Osaka University as a research student.
  • Our paper titled “Diffusion Policies for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Offline Reinforcement Learning” is accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024! link, Video
  • Our paper titled “Bidirectional Progressive Neural Networks With Episodic Return Progress for Emergent Task Sequencing and Robotic Skill Transfer” is accepted to IEEE ACCESS’24! link
  • Mustafa Doğa Doğan, Serdar Bahar and Toprak Temir is currently working on RAMPA, an augmented reality framework that involves trajectory recording with hand mimicry, playback and adjustment of trajectories, and training and testing ML models, click for the latest updates.
  • Alper Ahmetoglu’s Ph.D. dissertation titled “Neurosymbolic Representations for Lifelong Learning” has been awarded the Doctoral Thesis Award by the Boğaziçi University Scientific Research Projects Commission due to its outstanding scientific quality.
  • Our paper titled “Conditional Neural Expert Processes for Learning Movement Primitives from Demonstration” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Robotics and Automation Letters Link Video Code
  • Tuba Girgin has successfully defended her Master’s thesis titled “Multi-Object Graph Symbol Network: Goal-Oriented Planning Through Learned Compound Object Symbols”.
  • Tuba Girgin has submitted her work titled “Multi-Object Graph Affordance Network: Enabling Goal-Oriented Planning through Compound Object Affordances” to the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. The manuscript is currently under review. Preprint
  • Tuba Girgin and Yigit Yildirim presented their papers titled “Learning Early Social Maneuvers for Enhanced Social Navigation” and “Bidirectional Human Interactive AI Framework for Social Robot Navigation” at the RTSS workshop of ICRA 2024. You can visit the webpage of the workshop here: https://www.trustworthyrobots.eu/rtss-icra/
  • Alper Ahmetoglu has successfully defended his Ph.D thesis titled “Neurosymbolic Representations for Lifelong Learning.” He will continue his postdoctoral studies at Brown University.
  • The INVERSE project officially started in January 2024, with the kick-off meeting held in Trento. For further information about the project, please visit: https://www.inverse-project.org/
  • The INVERSE project, in which CoLoRs is involved as a partner, has been accepted within the scope of the Horizon Europe program under the CL4-2023-DIGITAL-EMERGING call.
  • Emre Ugur will be giving an invited talk at the CoRL Workshop on Learning Effective Abstractions for Planning (LEAP) on November 2023.
  • Our paper “Predictive Event Segmentation and Representation with Neural Networks: A Self-Supervised Model Assessed by Psychological Experiments” is accepted to the journal of Cognitive System Research.
  • We are organizing IROS Workshop on World Models and Predictive Coding in Cognitive Robotics on October 5th, 2023.
  • Emre Ugur will be giving an invited talk at the International Symposium on Predictive Brain and Cognitive Feelings on July 2023.
  • Emre Ugur will be visiting the Cognitive Developmental Robotics Lab at the University of Tokyo from July to August 2023.
  • Suzan Ece Ada and Batuhan Celik will visit the Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center at Osaka University from June to September 2023.
  • Hakan Aktas will visit the University of Tokyo, Cognitive Developmental Robotics Lab as an intern researcher from June until September 2023.
  • Our paper titled “Özdikkat Bazlı Tahminciler ile Çoklu-Nesne Sembolleri Öğrenimi” won the IEEE best paper award at SIU 2023 (national conference) on July 2023.
  • Tuba Girgin will present our paper “Bimanual Rope Manipulation Skill Synthesis through Context Dependent Correction Policy Learning from Human Demonstration” at ICRA 2023 Poster Session on May 2023.
  • Our paper titled “Bimanual Rope Manipulation Skill Synthesis through Context Dependent Correction Policy Learning from Human Demonstration” is accepted to ICRA 2023! pdf
  • Alper Ahmetoglu will present our paper “Neurosymbolic Mechanisms for Lifelong Robot Learning” at AAAI-23 Bridge Session on AI & Robotics.
  • Our paper titled “Meta-World Conditional Neural Processes” is accepted to Agent Learning in Open-Endedness (ALOE) ICLR’22 ! https://openreview.net/forum?id=BeZetkQduMq
  • Our paper titled “Generalization in transfer learning: robust control of robot locomotion” is accepted to Robotica (2022)! https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/robotica/article/generalization-in-transfer-learning-robust-control-of-robot-locomotion/672064FF800019741144B4BDF3E0E2F4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkXPVS0iC5k
  • We are organizing IROS 2022 Workshop on Lifelong Learning of High-level Cognitive and Reasoning Skills.
  • Tuba Girgin and Baturhan Akbulut are visiting Erhan Oztop at Osaka University as research students.
  • TUBITAK-1003 Project with title “Wearable Flexible Sensor Supported Lower Body Exoskeleton System” which CoLoRs was among the partners finished successfully in April 2023.
  • Our paper titled “DeepSym: Deep Symbol Generation and Rule Learning from Unsupervised Continuous Robot Interaction for Planning” is accepted to JAIR!
  • Our paper titled “High-level Features for Resource Economy and Fast Learning in Skill Transfer” is accepted to Advanced Robotics! pdf
  • We are organizing RSS 2021 Workshop on Declarative and Neurosymbolic Representations in Robot Learning and Control.
  • Our paper titled “Reward Conditioned Neural Movement Primitives for Population Based Variational Policy Optimization” is accepted to ICRA 2021! pdf, video.
  • Our project proposal “Abstract Reasoning with Symbol Discovery and Life-long Learning” has been accepted by TUBITAK-1001 program.
  • Our paper titled “ACNMP: Flexible Skill Formation with Learning from Demonstration and Reinforcement Learning via Representation Sharing” is accepted as oral talk (4%) to CoRL 2020! pdf, video.
  • Invited speaker in Fourth Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion Workshop, MLPC @ ICRA 2020.
  • Our paper titled “Belief Regulated Dual Propagation Nets for Learning Action Effects on Articulated Multi-Part Objects” is accepted to ICRA 2020! pdf, video.
  • M.Yunus Seker and M.Tuluhan Akbulut are visiting Nagai Group, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo, as an intern student from January to February 2020!
  • Alper Ahmetoglu is visiting Asada Group, Emergent Robotics Laboratory, Osaka University, as an intern student from January to February 2020.
  • Melisa Sener is visiting Nagai Group, International Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo, as an intern student from July to August 2019.
  • Our paper titled “Effect regulated projection of robot’s action space for production and prediction of manipulation primitives through learning progress and predictability based exploration” is accepted to TCDS 2019! pdf.
  • Our paper titled “Deep Effect Trajectory Prediction in Robot Manipulation” is accepted to RAS 2019! pdf, video.
  • Our paper titled “Conditional Neural Movement Primitives” is accepted to RSS 2019! pdf, video.
  • Our work received Best Poster Award in ToRK2019! link.
  • Our research has appeared in Deutsche Welle Turkce Servisi. Accessible via youtube link.
  • Emre Ugur is invited speaker in International Mini-Symposium on Cognitive Robotics, Osaka, Japan, August 2018.
  • Serkan Bugur is visiting Nagai Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), as an intern student from September to October 2018.
  • Our research has appeared in national newspapers Hürriyet and Sabah. Accessible via Hürriyet and Sabah.
  • Hakan Girgin is visiting Robot Learning and Interaction (RLI) Group, at Idiap Research Institute as an intern student from March to September 2018.
  • Our research appeared in national news channel Haberturk! See video.
  • Mert Imre and Ahmet Ercan Tekden are visiting Nagai Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), as intern students.
  • Emre Ugur is Program Chair of 2018 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob).
  • We are organizing Turkiye Robotbilim Konferansi (TORK2018) in April 12-14 in Bogazici University.
  • Emre Ugur is invited speaker at Hacettepe University Summer School on Computer Vision and Robotics (BYOYO 2017), in August 2017.
  • Emre Ugur is Program Chair of 2017 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob).
  • Serkan Bugur is visiting Nagai Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Osaka as an intern student.
  • Call for participation: We are co-organizing IROS 2017 Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics in Vancouver in September 28th.
  • Call for papers: We are guest editing Special Issue in Advanced Robotics on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics.