MIRMI News

At the robotics conference KIRO2024 in Berlin, Prof Angela Schoellig from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Prof Tamim Asfour from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) presented the Robotics Institute Germany. TUM is the consortium leader of this new robotics institute. [read more]

New solutions at the interface between medical technology and machine-assisted processes in medicine: this is the goal of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory (IFL), which was set up seven years ago at the Klinikum rechts der Isar, by Prof. Nassir Navab. Currently, the lab is home to over ten research projects running in parallel, where robotics and artificial intelligence play an important role. [read more]

Prof. Nassir Navab from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) uses robotic ultrasound systems that perform routine examinations autonomously and support doctors in the operating theater. His research shows that these systems can make everyday life easier for doctors. [read more]

The industrial robots from the Munich-based start-up sewts use AI algorithms to learn how to handle materials with unstable shapes. Laundries are already using the technology to automatically transfer towels to folding machines. The founders and graduates of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) now want to automate the processing of clothing returns in online retail. Co-founder Till Rickert completed his Master's degree at the Chair of Automotive Engineering of Prof. Markus Lienkamp, Head of the Mobility Sector at MIRMI. [read more]

A new episode on the BR1 podcast series “Good to Know” explores MIRMI Professor Achim Lilienthal's work on artificial olfactory perception and the development of machines’ abilities to distinguish and identify smells, and possible practical applications for these new technologies, including in clinical diagnosis. Watch the video and listen to the podcast here (in German). [read more]

For the first time, the assistance robot GARMI demonstrates that it can directly combine specific skills and support seniors throughout the day. With the help of a digital twin, artificial intelligence and ChatGPT, the care assistant from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) conducts caregiving tasks such as bringing water and breakfast to the bedside, booking medical appointments and setting up and facilitating telemedical examinations. It also helps care recipients to get out of bed and do rehabilitation exercises. [read more]

Majid Khadiv, our new professor of AI Planning in Dynamic Environments, will also be attending a workshop at ICRA 2024. He wants to develop robots that can do dangerous work for humans, such as putting out fires, which are still too complex for humanoid robots. Read about his work on how this can change with the help of machine learning, and watch the new episode of NewIn, which explores the work of new professors at TUM. [read more]

A team of scientists of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) won one of the five Best Paper Awards at ICRA 2024. Their paper on „Energy Transfer in Elastic Joints“ has been chosen out of more than 1.200 papers published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) in 2023. The award ceremony was in Yokohama yesterday during the ICRA 2024. MIRMI-scientist Mehmet Can Yildirim answers our questions. [read more]

Today, Peter So, a MIRMI research associate, will be presenting his and colleagues' work at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. We ask him three questions about his research into an electronic 'taskboard' to measure robots manipulative skills across a range of activities. [read more]

MIRMI supports five schools from South and East Bavaria as part of the advisory body for the Profile Schools for Informatics and Future Technologies initiative (PIZ), launched by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education. As part of this project, the teachers responsible for the schools we support were invited to the MIRMI headquarters to present their approaches to teaching and applying technologies such as AI and robotics in their schools, and exchange their ideas. [read more]