Jürgen Sturm is a Ph.D. student in the Autonomous Intelligent Systems group at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Freiburg, Germany since 2007. He visited Willow Garage as a summer intern in 2009. His major research interests lie in learning models of articulated objects, for example for operating furniture in domestic environments using service robots. He has also worked on tactile sensing, body schema bootstapping, and imitation learning for mobile manipulation. Before 2007, he studied artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, where he was a member of the Dutch Aibo Team.

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