MIRMI in the Media

HANDELSBLATT, 14.06.2022 - The business with robots is doing extremely well. Above all, machines that can cooperate with humans are raising hopes. Two reasons ensure that the boom continues. [read more]

VDI nachrichten, 27.5.2022 - Supply bottlenecks and additional requirements in terms of sustainable industrial processes demand even more flexibility from companies. Robots can be a solution here. [read more]

Sometimes tools can serve different purposes. Last weekend GARMI, the service robot developed to care for elderly people, handed over trophies to the winners of the 2022 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup - Women to avoid COVID-19 contagions. We tell you some highlights and impressions of the event in this video. GARMI has been under development at the TUM Geriatronics Research Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Munich, Bavaria, Germany. [read more]

The German federal government and the Free State of Bavaria created two new offers for startup projects based on AI and intelligent robotics, AI+MUNICH and Robo.Innovate. The first aims to develop and scale AI start-up ideas, and to accelerate the transfer of AI research from universities to industry. It will be coordinated by MUC SUMMIT GmbH. The second will help pre-startup teams to have access to infrastructures (including a development lab for robot apps), technological teaching and training, as well as customized training programs in entrepreneurship and venturing. Robo.Innovate will… [read more]

The Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts is launching a new funding program to strengthen corona research at medical faculties and university hospitals in Bavaria. This was announced by Science Minister Bernd Sibler in Munich in mid-December. According to Sibler, the funding volume totals 6 million euros. [read more]

When we are old, who takes care of us? Because in 30 years the demographic change will be in full swing: 6.1 million people in Germany who need to be cared for and too few people who look after them. That doesn't work. That means we need a solution! One option are robots in care. The Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence team develop robots that could support and relieve the nursing staff. Beta stories shows in this documentary what robots can already do in care and why we will need care robots in the future. [read more]

Dr. Günter Steinebach (internist) and Prof. Sami Haddadin explain for the science magazine "Xenius" on ARTE how the robot Garmi would support and companion elderly people in the future (minute 11:36-14:40). [read more]

Why is the Technical University of Munich (TUM) ahead of the game when it comes to AI AND ROBOTICS? Read the answer in our publication in the prestigious journal NATURE INDEX. [read more]

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sami Haddadin followed an invitation by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Schloss Bellevue in Berlin and presented the flagship initiative Geriatronik. A video clip of the visit can be found here . [read more]

MSRM as Guest at the Annual Meeting of the German Ethics Council [read more]