MIRMI News

Prof. Lorenzo Masia has taken the role of executive director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He will continue the work of Prof. Sami Haddadin, who established the institute in 2018 and led it for almost seven years. Prof. Masia will work closely with Prof. Achim Lilienthal who joined the MIRMI Board of Directors and has accepted the role as deputy director at MIRMI. [read more]

More than 60 children visited the KI.Fabrik as part of the KinderUni to learn about what the factory of the future will look like. How long does it take to program a robot? How does a robot manage to recognize objects? And can it even speak? [read more]

With his findings on motion planning and control for tactile manipulation, MIRMI researcher Erfan Shahriari earned the Georg Giralt PhD Award on the stage of the ERF 2025. His approach addresses robustness as well as energy-awareness. It is even already being used in practice. [read more]

A team led by start-up Olive Robotics and TUM Professor Eckehard Steinbach took third place in this year's euRobotics Technology Transfer Award with the topic ‘olixSense - AI-Powered Inertial Measurement Unit for Advanced Robotics’, out of 17 submissions. The award was presented at the European Robotics Forum (2025) in Stuttgart. [read more]

GROWBOT, ExVo, and Seal Robotics are the three winners honored at the robo.innovate Hackathon 2025. Among ten challenges, Team GROWBOT was named "Hackathon Champion" for its solution supporting robotic-assisted tree growth. ExVo was awarded for the most scalable solution, focusing on the automated unpacking of car parts in production logistics. Finally, SEAL Robotics received recognition for the best problem-solving approach, aiming to automate the securing of shipping containers. [read more]

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed an innovative robot that can move safely and autonomously through crowds of people. The robot uses a combination of sensors and intelligent algorithms to predict the behavior of people and adapt its route in real time. In the future, this technology could be of great importance not only for humanoid robots, but also in the field of autonomous driving to enable safe interaction between humans and machines. [read more]

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Cologne have developed an AI-supported learning system that uses eye-tracking to identify the individual strengths and weaknesses of pupils in mathematics. Using a standard webcam, the system analyzes eye movements and generates targeted hints to support the learning process. [read more]

Robots that clean our homes, AI-powered drones, and self-driving taxis - Prof. Angela Schoellig from TUM explains how robotics and AI are shaping the future. In the BR Podcast "Die Blaue Couch", she shares insights into the latest breakthroughs and the challenges ahead. [read more]

euROBIN has big plans: The pan-European robotics network, which is dedicated to advancing technologies through collaboration, aims to build innovative robotic skills for the economy in a shared European repository for next-generation intelligent machines and robots. Competitions play a vital role in demonstrating state-of-the-art methods on real world robot platforms by the world’s premier robotics researchers. Uniquely, competitions provide a stage in which international teams of researchers can develop new solutions in a short period of time to pressing challenges from the industry. [read more]

The self-driving shuttle "Edgar" from the Technical University of Munich demonstrates how research can become reality. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology, Edgar autonomously navigates the dense crowds of Oktoberfest. It recognizes pedestrians, cyclists, traffic signs, and even handles unpredictable situations—like a shattered glass bottle on the street. [read more]