Innovation

TUM is joining the Global Challenge Lab 2022, featuring 10-days of online workshops, guest speakers, and expert mentoring to help you hack innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. This year, participants will be working to achieve UNS SDG 13: Climate Action, in partnership with students from 14 universities across the world. Students from all disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to join! [read more]

Using smart sensor and measurement techniques to make farming more efficient and sustainable is the goal of a team of researchers at TUM. [read more]

Following many years of research at the Technical University of Munich, the start-up Ebenbuild won the digital health category at EIT Health Catapult 2022. The company aims to use AI software to generate unprecedented data on patients’ lungs and provide tailored therapy to treat acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The pioneers behind this company are Dr. Kei Müller, Dr. Jonas Biehler, Prof. Wolfgang Wall and Dr. Karl-Robert Wichmann. [read more]

Would you like to discuss with roboticists and AI law specialists technological solutions for the Future of Health? Join the Geriatronics Summit which will be held on June 20 and June 21 at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany. Please register to participate and/or submit a contribution before June 08. [read more]

The Innovation Radar of the European Commission (EC) featured four innovations developed in various TUM / MIRMI projects in April and May 2022. The Innovation Radar platform builds on the information and data gathered by independent experts, who review the innovations in ongoing projects funded by the European Commission and provide an independent opinion on their market potential. The independent assessment of the market potential of a publicly funded project aims to connect innovators with investors and maximize funding opportunities for European tech entrepreneurs. [read more]

As part of her M.Sc. in Medical Technologies at TUM, Veronika Spieker conducted her master thesis on the design, implementation and experimental validation of upper-limb prostheses at MIRMI. The MedtecLIVE Talent Award is supported by a top-class jury consisting of representatives from industry and research. Learn more about her story. [read more]

Around 30 demonstrators from the Technical University of Munich, TUM's Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) as well as selected start-ups and several projects' partners will present their latest innovations in the munich_i / AI.Society exhibition area during the automatica conference from 21. to 24. June, 2022 in Hall B4 at Messe München. Additionally, 20-minute live talks will take place on the i_space stage of munich_i every day from 11:00- to 12:30. Tickets are available now. [read more]

The munich_i Hightech Summit is the highlight of the automatica’s support program and will be held on June 22, 2022. Under the theme of ‘intelligence empowering tomorrow’, leading international technology drivers along with pioneers from science and industry will present their innovations, findings, and megatrends regarding the interaction between human and artificial intelligence, and responsible technological change. Minister President Dr. Markus Söder will open the Hightech Summit within the framework of a state reception at the Munich Residenz Palace on the previous evening. [read more]

Ziel des Leuchtturmprojekts "Digitale Herz-OP" der Technischen Universität München (TUM) ist es, eine präzisere und schonendere Behandlung von Herzerkrankungen zu ermöglichen. Ärzte und Ingenieure des Deutschen Herzzentrums München (DHM) und des Münchner Instituts für Robotik und Maschinelle Intelligenz (MIRMI) arbeiten in einer zukunftsweisenden Partnerschaft eng zusammen, um gemeinsam neue hochpräzise Instrumente für den Operationssaal, das Herzkatheterlabor und die Intensivstation zu entwickeln. Orientiert an klinischen Herausforderungen werden innovative Sensordatenfusion, KI-gestützte… [read more]

On April 7, 2022, the biannual meeting of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) with the Science Board took place in the interim premises of MIRMI at Georg-Brauchle-Ring. A total of over 30 participants from industry and the MIRMI community learned about the MIRMI highlights of the past 6 months, the concepts for new "Innovation Sectors" in the field of Environment and Mobility in MIRMI as well as the latest technological and political developments in the field. [read more]