Manfred Hild

Prof. Dr. Manfred Hild serves as Professor and head of the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology (BHT), where he teaches in the Humanoid Robotics program. He is a key member of the HARMONICS research group at BHT.

Dr. Hild's research spans humanoid robotics and sensorimotor control, distributed embedded systems, and the theory of nonlinear dynamic systems with emphasis on recurrent neural networks. His work also encompasses sound analysis and synthesis using programmable hardware like FPGAs. His laboratory develops complete autonomous robotic systems from electronics and mechanics through to cognitive processes and linguistic interfaces for human-machine interaction.

Dr. Hild earned his doctorate with distinction from Humboldt University in Berlin in 2008 after completing studies in mathematics and psychology at University of Konstanz. Prior to BHT, he conducted research at SONY Computer Science Laboratory in Paris and Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. Approximately ten years ago, he founded the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory (NRL) in Berlin, where numerous national and international research projects have been conducted and dissertations supervised.

Notably, some of Dr. Hild's doctoral students and former colleagues now work as robotics developers in space travel applications or lead robotics development departments at Amazon.