MIRMI News

The Third Annual Geriatronics Summit 2024 brought together AI and robotics researchers, care providers, and the general public from over 16 countries and 40 institutions to discuss the application of AI and robotics in improving care for older adults and individuals with disabilities, benefiting both patients and carers alike. [read more]

Area cameras reach their limits in foggy, rainy conditions, or at night. Event-based cameras are better suited for these scenarios. Researchers from the Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Real-Time Systems at the Technical University of Munich have developed a method to fuse the data streams of these different camera systems. Doctoral student Christian Cress explains how it works. [read more]

With the help of action mapping, researchers can find executable actions for a robot, for example, without having to rely on large amounts of data. A corresponding framework has the potential to vastly improve the learning efficiency of safe reinforcement learning. Read on for explanation by research assistant Mirco Theile. [read more]

The start-up Reverion was awarded the TUM Presidential Entrepreneurship Award for developing its highly efficient power plant. RobCo, founded by a TUM graduate and a student of Prof. Alois Knoll, Chair of Robotics, AI, and Real-time Systems, also reached the finals of the award. The prize was awarded at the TUM Entrepreneurship Day, which showcases Munich's diverse innovation ecosystem and celebrates start-ups and entrepreneurship from the TUM community. [read more]

The fields of robotics and caregiving could hardly seem more different at first glance: a focus on technology on one side and a focus on people on the other. Therefore, Constanze Giese advocates for co-design. At the Geriatronics Summit, the professor of ethics and anthropology in caregiving from the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Munich discussed this in the panel "Robotics Meets Ethics." [read more]

Participate in the Manipulation Skill Versatility Challenge (MSVC) at IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi from October 15-17, 2024. This euROBIN event focuses on developing transferable robot skills for the circular economy. We are looking for teams who can provide their own robot platform and have demonstrated experience using the platform to solve various manipulation tasks. [read more]

What JPEG, MP3 and MPEG are for images, audio and video, haptic codecs are for transmitting the sense of touch via the Internet. After eight years of standardization work under the consortium leadership of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a standard for the compression and transmission of the sense of touch has been published for the first time under the name "Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet" (HCTI). It lays the foundation for tele-surgery, tele-driving and new online gaming experiences. [read more]

Lorenzo Masia is a pioneer in the development of exosuits and robot-assisted rehabilitation. At the Geriatronics Summit, the professor from Heidelberg University will moderate a panel discussion on the challenges of robotics in the healthcare sector. A few insights in advance. [read more]

During the last two weeks, the EU project DARKO visited KI.Fabrik at Deutsches Museum. Nearly 20 researchers from 7 DARKO partners integrated their project results and demonstrated the current state-of-the-art to invited stakeholders on Friday the 21st of June. [read more]