This transfer award recognizes solutions that have made their way from research and laboratories into practice. The start-up Olive Robotics develops modular sensor technology that supports direct processing of sensor signals using artificial intelligence in the sensor. ‘This reduces the load on the overall system and significantly reduces latency,’ explains Prof. Eckehard Steinbach, holder of the Chair of Media Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Director of Start-ups and Infrastructure at MIRMI. The sensor modules from Olive Robotics are also fully compatible with the robotic operating system ROS2 and the middleware DDS and can, therefore, be incorporated into robotic systems with minimal integration effort.

Technology developed at the Chair of Media Technology at TUM

‘The technological basis for this award-winning development was originally researched as part of a doctoral project by Mojtaba Leox Karimi at the Chair of Media Technology at TUM and then transferred to the TUM spin-off Olive Robotics, of which Karimi is now CEO, as part of a successful technology transfer,’ explains Prof. Steinbach. The current CTO Software and co-founder of Olive Robotics, Edwin Babaians, accepted the award on behalf of the entire team.