EnviroBotics: Innovative Educational Project in Robotics
"Exploratory Learning" is at the core of the educational project "EnviroBotics," which will be supported over two years by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education. The idea was developed by a research team led by environmental roboticist Daniel Dücker from the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

EnviroBotics aims to connect students across disciplines to enable collaborative work on real-world challenges in climate and environmental protection as part of their education. Environmental robotics is a prime field within current research and symbolizes the future collaboration between environmental and robotics experts.
EnviroBotics is an interdisciplinary learning space within the context of inquiry-based learning. Guided by student mentors and partners such as environmental agencies, students are given the freedom to develop their own solution concepts for real problems in small groups and implement them with robots, for example, automated water monitoring. A satellite lab (Svan) allows for field experiments away from the university campus.
Sponsor: | Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education |
Funded Project: | EnviroBotics – A Free Space for Blending Robotics and Life Sciences |
Funding Line: | Freiraum |
Duration: | 2 years (04.2024 - 03.2026) |
Researcher: | Dr.-Ing. Daniel-Andre Dücker(Project lead) |
Moritz Graf | |
Dr.-Ing. Lennart Trösken | |
Link: | MIRMI News |