Research

Ideally, a robot arm should move like a human arm. This is why researchers from the Chair of Media Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are looking at how stiff a human arm is when it performs specific tasks. Researcher Zican Wang explains why haptic sensors and a newly developed controllers are essential for this. [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 Third Annual Geriatronics Summit 2024 brought together AI and robotics researchers, care providers, and the general public from over 16 countries and 40 institutions to discuss the application of AI and robotics in improving care for older adults and individuals with disabilities, benefiting both patients and carers alike. [read more]

With the help of action mapping, researchers can find executable actions for a robot, for example, without having to rely on large amounts of data. A corresponding framework has the potential to vastly improve the learning efficiency of safe reinforcement learning. Read on for explanation by research assistant Mirco Theile. [read more]

The fields of robotics and caregiving could hardly seem more different at first glance: a focus on technology on one side and a focus on people on the other. Therefore, Constanze Giese advocates for co-design. At the Geriatronics Summit, the professor of ethics and anthropology in caregiving from the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Munich discussed this in the panel "Robotics Meets Ethics." [read more]

What JPEG, MP3 and MPEG are for images, audio and video, haptic codecs are for transmitting the sense of touch via the Internet. After eight years of standardization work under the consortium leadership of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a standard for the compression and transmission of the sense of touch has been published for the first time under the name "Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet" (HCTI). It lays the foundation for tele-surgery, tele-driving and new online gaming experiences. [read more]

During the last two weeks, the EU project DARKO visited KI.Fabrik at Deutsches Museum. Nearly 20 researchers from 7 DARKO partners integrated their project results and demonstrated the current state-of-the-art to invited stakeholders on Friday the 21st of June. [read more]

At the robotics conference KIRO2024 in Berlin, Prof Angela Schoellig from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Prof Tamim Asfour from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) presented the Robotics Institute Germany. TUM is the consortium leader of this new robotics institute. [read more]

New solutions at the interface between medical technology and machine-assisted processes in medicine: this is the goal of the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory (IFL), which was set up seven years ago at the Klinikum rechts der Isar, by Prof. Nassir Navab. Currently, the lab is home to over ten research projects running in parallel, where robotics and artificial intelligence play an important role. [read more]