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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]

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]

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]

At the new Siemens Technology Center (STC) on the TUM Campus Garching, 150 TUM staff and researchers will work with more than 450 Siemens specialists on new solutions related to digital twins, the industrial internet of things, robotics and automation. Bavarian Minister President Dr. Markus Söder, TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, the CTO of Siemens Peter Körte and State Minister for Science and Arts Markus Blume were on hand to open the new research facility. [read more]