Biografie
I am pursuing my PhD in TU Berlin's Robotics and Biology Lab, where Prof. Oliver Brock advises me. Previously, I worked as a Research Fellow in the Harvard Biorobotics Lab and the Mechatronics in Medicine Lab at Imperial College London, and as a Machine Learning Researcher at Merantix in Berlin. I did my master's in Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence and my bachelor's in Engineering Science, both at TU Munich.
My current research focuses on new control and sensing paradigms for soft robotic hands to unlock robust object manipulation. I am involved in various audio-visual art projects. I'm an avid photographer, I'm one half of Aqua Veen, and I'm collaborating with Justin Urbach and others on BLINDHÆD, a multi-media art installation based on event vision.
Publikationen
L. Weber, T. Wienert, M. Splettstößer, A. Koenig, O. Brock "Acoustic Sensing for Universal Jamming Grippers" In: Workshop on Acoustic Sensing and Representations for Robotics at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
V. Mengers, A. Koenig, X. Li, A. Sieler, A. Battaje, O. Brock "Stop Merging, Start Separating: Why Merging Learning and Modeling Won't Solve Manipulation but Separating the General From the Specific Will" In: Workshop on Learning Meets Model-Based Methods for Contact-Rich Manipulation at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
A. Sieler, A. Koenig, O. Brock "What Is the Key to Dexterous Manipulation: Learning or Compliance?" In: Proceedings of the German Robotics Conference (GRC), 2025
A. Koenig, M. Schambach, and J. Otterbach "Uncovering the Inner Workings of STEGO for Safe Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation" In: Workshop on Safe Artificial Intelligence for All Domains at IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023
A. Koenig, Z. Liu, L. Janson and R. Howe "The Role of Tactile Sensing in Learning and Deploying Grasp Refinement Algorithms" In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
A. Koenig, Z. Liu, L. Janson and R. Howe "Tactile Sensing and its Role in Learning and Deploying Robotic Grasping Controllers" In: Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
A. Koenig, F. Rodriguez y Baena and R. Secoli "Gesture-Based Teleoperated Grasping for Educational Robotics" In: IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021.
Präsentationen
"Co-Design for Soft Manipulation at RBO: Past, Present, and Future" at Soft Material Robotics Symposium Hannover, 2025 "Recent Advances in Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation" at Switzerland Innovation Park Basel, 2023 "CVPR 2023 Conference Retrospective" at AI Campus Berlin, 2023 "High-Performance Data Loading for Machine Learning Workloads with Squirrel" at Siemens AI Colloquium, 2022
Media Coverage
Interview with LeRandom "Reprogramming Sensory Habits", June 9, 2025 Interview with Science of Intelligence "When machines learn to see differently, and artists start watching", July 24, 2025
I am pursuing my PhD in TU Berlin's Robotics and Biology Lab, where Prof. Oliver Brock advises me. Previously, I worked as a Research Fellow in the Harvard Biorobotics Lab and the Mechatronics in Medicine Lab at Imperial College London, and as a Machine Learning Researcher at Merantix in Berlin. I did my master's in Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence and my bachelor's in Engineering Science, both at TU Munich.
My current research focuses on new control and sensing paradigms for soft robotic hands to unlock robust object manipulation. I am involved in various audio-visual art projects. I'm an avid photographer, I'm one half of Aqua Veen, and I'm collaborating with Justin Urbach and others on BLINDHÆD, a multi-media art installation based on event vision.
Publikationen
L. Weber, T. Wienert, M. Splettstößer, A. Koenig, O. Brock "Acoustic Sensing for Universal Jamming Grippers" In: Workshop on Acoustic Sensing and Representations for Robotics at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
V. Mengers, A. Koenig, X. Li, A. Sieler, A. Battaje, O. Brock "Stop Merging, Start Separating: Why Merging Learning and Modeling Won't Solve Manipulation but Separating the General From the Specific Will" In: Workshop on Learning Meets Model-Based Methods for Contact-Rich Manipulation at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
A. Sieler, A. Koenig, O. Brock "What Is the Key to Dexterous Manipulation: Learning or Compliance?" In: Proceedings of the German Robotics Conference (GRC), 2025
A. Koenig, M. Schambach, and J. Otterbach "Uncovering the Inner Workings of STEGO for Safe Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation" In: Workshop on Safe Artificial Intelligence for All Domains at IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2023
A. Koenig, Z. Liu, L. Janson and R. Howe "The Role of Tactile Sensing in Learning and Deploying Grasp Refinement Algorithms" In: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
A. Koenig, Z. Liu, L. Janson and R. Howe "Tactile Sensing and its Role in Learning and Deploying Robotic Grasping Controllers" In: Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
A. Koenig, F. Rodriguez y Baena and R. Secoli "Gesture-Based Teleoperated Grasping for Educational Robotics" In: IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021.
Präsentationen
"Co-Design for Soft Manipulation at RBO: Past, Present, and Future" at Soft Material Robotics Symposium Hannover, 2025 "Recent Advances in Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation" at Switzerland Innovation Park Basel, 2023 "CVPR 2023 Conference Retrospective" at AI Campus Berlin, 2023 "High-Performance Data Loading for Machine Learning Workloads with Squirrel" at Siemens AI Colloquium, 2022
Media Coverage
Interview with LeRandom "Reprogramming Sensory Habits", June 9, 2025 Interview with Science of Intelligence "When machines learn to see differently, and artists start watching", July 24, 2025