MIRMI News

Get the support you need to implement new effective ways of manufacturing with human-centric industrial robots on your production floor. The European-funded program SHOP4CF (Smart Human Oriented Platform for Connected Factories) offers €100,000 in equity-free funding, expert support, and tailored training sessions on technology, innovation, and finances to each of the winning teams. The call for applications will stay open until August 2021. [read more]

Researchers aim to reduce the cost of common hearing test probes to facilitate nationwide hearing screenings for newborns even in developing countries. The early detection of hearing impairments will help to improve patients’ quality of life. [read more]

Reflexes protect our bodies – for example when we pull our hand back from a hot stove. These protective mechanisms could also be useful for robots. In this interview, Prof. Sami Haddadin and Johannes Kühn of the Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM) of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) explain why giving test subjects a “slap on the hand” could lay the foundations for the robots of the future. [read more]

Are you an elite robotics student? Join the Advanced Technologies for Designing Robotics Systems – Elite Summer School. This is a sponsored two-week international summer school in Denmark with other highly talented students from around the world. [read more]

Alexander König, founder of Reactive Robotics, talks about VEMO, a robot developed to help intensive care patients walk, and the cooperation with the MSRM [read more]

Prof. Hendrik Dietz and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang A. Wall, Principal Investigators affiliated with MSRM, won ERC Advanced Grants to develop artificial viruses from DNA origami and create a computer model of the human lungs using AI. [read more]

MSRM warmly welcomes Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandra Hirche, who will lead the AI sector at the MSRM Science Board together with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Diepold. [read more]

The Round Table on Engineers for the Future was an insightful conversation among experienced engineers about the future of a socially responsible engineering. [read more]

We have great news: Robothon® – The Grand Challenge 2021 as part of munich_i goes digital! Apply as a team until 23:59 CEST 30 April 2021 on our website at www.robothon-grand-challenge.com. [read more]

The “Modeling and Rehabilitation Robotics” research team developed a safe and minimalistic control and learning (AI) algorithm, which automatically finds and provides the optimal balance between rigid support and “soft” guidance for any given patient during therapy. This assist-as-needed (AAN) control strategy is being commercialized in collaboration with the high-tech startup Reactive Robotics and Schön Klinik Bad Aibling, as part of a robotic assistive device called VEMO, used for the early rehabilitation of ICU patients. [read more]