Professor Dr Sami Haddadin

Research Priorities: Robotics, artificial intelligence, control, neurotechnology, automating science
Sami Haddadin is a German electrical engineer and computer scientist. He focuses on developing Universal Physical and Embodied Intelligence – an advanced robotic brain capable of sensing and responding to the dynamic physical world, interacting safely and intelligently, and learning from experience. His work drives innovation across industries and plays a central role in his ultimate quest for robotic knowledge discovery in the natural sciences.
Sami Haddadin's research focuses on the scientific and technological foundations of intelligent machines capable of autonomous interaction and learning. He argues that true progress requires the co-design of embodiment and intelligence, integrating novel systems, sensors, and materials with advanced control methods, machine learning, ever-growing computing power, and high-speed communication networks.
The next generations of machines, he envisions, will enhance quality of life and work, expand human scientific intellect and experimental capacity, accelerate knowledge discovery, and enable cooperative exploration of terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments. Such systems will form the technological backbone of globally interconnected cyber-societies in the 21st century.
His work bridges control, robotics, machine learning, and human motor intelligence, establishing fundamental principles for engineering artificial intelligence and robotics. His robotic assistants support the elderly amid demographic change and aid workers in the human-centered industrial revolution. He develops brain-controlled prostheses, robots, and exoskeletons that restore lost motor functions, as well as cooperative robotic laboratory helpers that scale experimentation in molecule synthesis, drug discovery, and cell analysis. In parallel, his heterogeneous robot teams create “environmental intelligence” for autonomous habitat exploration, monitoring, and intervention across land, water, and air.