Manfred Hild

Prof. Dr. Manfred Hild is the head of the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology (BHT). He teaches in the Humanoid Robotics program and has led numerous national/international research projects.

Affiliations:

• BHT: Founder of Neurorobotics Research Laboratory (NRL)
• Sony Computer Science Laboratory (Paris) - Visiting Researcher
• Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems - Sankt Augustin, Germany

Research Focus: Humanoid robotics, sensorimotor control systems, distributed embedded systems, nonlinear dynamic systems, and recurrent neural networks. Additional interests in sound analysis/synthesis using programmable hardware (FPGAs).

Education: Mathematics and Psychology at University of Konstanz, followed by doctorate in Computer Science at Humboldt University in Berlin (2008).

Notable Achievements: Developed autonomous robotic systems covering electronics, mechanics, firmware, adaptive control systems, and higher-order behavior with linguistic interfaces.