Drones that recognise and digitise their surroundings as they fly by, a surgical robot that is controlled by gestures and an association that was created at MIRMI and develops artificial hands: These are three of the demos that MIRMI is showing at the TUM Technikum of the Siemens Technology Centre (STC). The demos were created with the collaboration of chairs that are involved in MIRMI, including the Chair of Machine Learning for Robotics, the Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-Time Systems and the Surgical Clinic and Polyclinic of the Klinikum rechts der Isar. 

When?

3 Oktober 2024 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where?

Siemens Technology Center in Garching, Friedrich-Ludwig-Bauer-Straße 3, after the main entrance on the right

MIRMI: Drones, surgical robots and artificial hands at the TUM Technikum

An overview of the demos and stands at the TUM Technikum:

• Drones and spatial AI: Prof Stefan Leutenegger demonstrates in the lab how a drone scans the entire environment in 3D and displays it on the computer screen.
• Operating theatre robot AURORA: Research assistant Lucas Bernhard from Klinikum rechts der Isar shows how the AURORA robot can support hospital staff. See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeSr5dFknZg
• Artificial hands for developing countries: The student group EnHands has set itself the task of developing prosthetic hands for developing countries. They use them to help people who have lost limbs due to illness or war.
• Distributed camera system for robot manipulation tasks: A camera on the robot's head and a monocular camera on the robot arm are used to explore the workplace and reconstruct it in 3D. This provides a better understanding of the scene for each task that a robot performs.
• Knowledge-based recognition of actions and skills: In order for a robot to find its way in a human environment, it must understand the actions of humans. Thanks to the representation of actions and skills that can be understood and verified by humans and methods for recognising people and objects from 3D images, human actions and skills can be recognised.
• Learning AI for skilful hands: with almost human-like dexterity, a robotic hand manages to turn cubes in its hand and stack them into a tower, or to grasp any object at a glance and then grasp it robustly. TUM Professor Berthold Bäuml shows in videos what role ‘learning with reward’ plays in this.

Further information

In addition to TUM, Siemens will be demonstrating the role of robotics and AI in research at the Siemens Technology Centre (STC). You can find out more about Siemens' activities here: https://forschungscampus-garching.de/3-okt-2024/stationen/siemens/

All information about the activities on the Garching research campus can be found here: https://forschungscampus-garching.de/

Press release of the Corporate Communication Centre of the TUM: https://www.tum.de/aktuelles/alle-meldungen/pressemitteilungen/details/tag-der-offenen-tuer-am-forschungscampus-garching

Text: Andreas Schmitz