MIRMI in the Media

Are robots stupid or do they save the world? Answers to these and many other exciting questions you get today, 25.01. at 18:00 clock in our YT live chat round at Terra X plus from the robotics expert Prof. Sami Haddadin from the TU Munich. Also in the studio is the robot GARMI, co-developed by Sami Haddadin. [read more]

Merkur.de, 13.01.2023 - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - At the Geriatronics Research Center, which is operated by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Bahnhofstraße, Bavaria's top politicians are making appearances. Only recently, Science Minister Markus Blume (CSU) was a guest at the center to announce millions in start-up capital for the planned campus development. Now, Health and Care Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) visited the flagship facility - and also pledged his support. [read more]

NDR, 23.07.2022 - A table full of gaps: This is what the duty rosters in old people's homes look like in many places. According to the German Nursing Council, there is a shortage of 200,000 skilled workers nationwide. In the future, robots and artificial intelligence could help in the care of the elderly. [read more]

Süddeutsche Zeitung, 17. Juli 2022 - Robots are expensive and destroy jobs? No way! New manufacturers and devices show: The machines could even alleviate skills shortages and supply chain problems. [read more]

mdr, 28.6.2022 - Robots are cute at best and artificial intelligence, with its algorithms and machine learning, threatening at worst. All wrong. We clean up with robotics and AI researcher Sami Haddadin and five clichés that will hopefully soon be no more! [read more]

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]