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Motivated AI
Research Lab for Engineering (Ro)Bots with Soul

Prof. Dr. Markus Quirin & Team

Mindfulness

Research

While today's AI systems are highly effective at recognizing patterns and solving cognitive problems, they remain fundamentally limited in important respects: they lack emotion, social motivation, and the capacity for empathy. These are not just optional features—they are central to what makes human minds flexible, socially intelligent, and meaningfully self-regulating. An AI that only calculates, but doesn’t have a "soul", cannot truly be called human-like.

Latest Publications

We're currently working on upcoming publications. In the meantime, you can explore an overview of our prior work using the link below

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