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Robots on an environmental mission, strong performance at the IROS robotics conference, exoskeleton expert new MIRMI Deputy Director: the highlights of 2024. [read more]

With Formove, Exobility, Seal Robotics, and RoboTUM, three start-ups and a student initiative are already active in the Autonomous Systems Hub (ASH). “Our goal is to guide start-ups on their journey and support them until they can stand on their own through independent funding,” says Sonja Stange, who leads the hub and works for robo.innovate, a start-up incubator for robotics funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. [read more]

Sebastian Steinhorst wants to make intelligent networked systems as powerful and efficient as possible, sees immense potential in generative AI, and works with Siemens on the industrial metaverse. Among other things, the industrial company is helping the professor from the Technical University of Munich, who is associated with MIRMI, to subject new developments to a reality check. An interview by Katharina Frantz [read more]

A myoelectric prosthesis for the hand is the focus of the CyberTUM student team. At the Cybathlon 2024, pilot Adnan Jukic will control it in the Arm Prothesis Race with the help of muscle signals in the forearm. The technical concept was developed by students from the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as part of a course. [read more]

At the international robotics conference IROS 2024, we are once again living up to our top-tier status: TUM MIRMI leads the field of scientific contributions by a wide margin. With 58 publications, 4 workshops, one competition, and one tutorial, the Technical University of Munich surpasses renowned institutions like UC Berkeley, Zhejiang University, and ETH Zurich. [read more]

Prof. Lorenzo Masia moved from Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg to the Technical University of Munich (TUM) on 1 October 2024. The expert in biorobotics and exosuits will become Deputy Director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI). [read more]

Under the motto ‘Entdecken, Checken, Wissen’, researchers will be showing what they are working on at over 70 stations on the research campus. MIRMI is also represented there with drones, a surgical robot and artificial hands. MIRMI researchers will be presenting their demos at the TUM Technikum in the Siemens Technology Centre. The event starts on 3 October at 10 am. [read more]

Oliver Hausdörfer, along with seven other students, won first prize at the Robotics Competition of the Robotics Summer School at ETH Zurich. The challenge was to develop a robot that autonomously explores its environment and detects artifacts. Hausdörfer is a PhD student at the Chair of Safety, Performance, and Reliability of Learning Systems at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). [read more]

Predicting pedestrian movements can often be achieved with only the last second of observation. Moreover, AI-based approaches don't always offer the expected advantages. These are the findings of a new research study from the Chair of Automotive Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Insights from PhD student Nico Uhlmann. [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]