Research

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]

A new episode on the BR1 podcast series “Good to Know” explores MIRMI Professor Achim Lilienthal's work on artificial olfactory perception and the development of machines’ abilities to distinguish and identify smells, and possible practical applications for these new technologies, including in clinical diagnosis. Watch the video and listen to the podcast here (in German). [read more]

For the first time, the assistance robot GARMI demonstrates that it can directly combine specific skills and support seniors throughout the day. With the help of a digital twin, artificial intelligence and ChatGPT, the care assistant from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) conducts caregiving tasks such as bringing water and breakfast to the bedside, booking medical appointments and setting up and facilitating telemedical examinations. It also helps care recipients to get out of bed and do rehabilitation exercises. [read more]

A team of scientists of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) won one of the five Best Paper Awards at ICRA 2024. Their paper on „Energy Transfer in Elastic Joints“ has been chosen out of more than 1.200 papers published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) in 2023. The award ceremony was in Yokohama yesterday during the ICRA 2024. MIRMI-scientist Mehmet Can Yildirim answers our questions. [read more]

Today, Peter So, a MIRMI research associate, will be presenting his and colleagues' work at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. We ask him three questions about his research into an electronic 'taskboard' to measure robots manipulative skills across a range of activities. [read more]

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have set themselves the goal of cleaning the environment with robots and drones, and have therefore been developing a technology platform for environmental robotics at the TUM Institute MIRMI for around four years. In an initial implementation, it can already be used to control robots and drones via telepresence and directly on site. [read more]