MIRMI News

With Formove, Exobility, Seal Robotics, and RoboTUM, three start-ups and a student initiative are already active in the Autonomous Systems Hub (ASH). “Our goal is to guide start-ups on their journey and support them until they can stand on their own through independent funding,” says Sonja Stange, who leads the hub and works for robo.innovate, a start-up incubator for robotics funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. [read more]

Almost a year and a half ago, two graduates from the Technical University of Munich, Said Derbel and Yamen Mohisn, founded SmartAIs with Sascha Preget on the commercial side and Anika Watzka, responsible for product and design. Their mission is to make life easier for blind people with the help of artificial intelligence. [read more]

Nursing care robots, autonomous driving, digital twins: all of these high-tech applications will play an essential role for the new 6G mobile communications standard. The first commercial 6G networks are expected to be available as of 2030. In the 6G-life and 6G Future Lab Bavaria initiatives, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TU Dresden are already testing and developing the fundamental mechanisms of the sixth mobile communications generation. One goal is to establish a complete communications system with components supplied exclusively by German start-ups. [read more]

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a tool that uses natural rhythms to improve the movement efficiency of robots. By applying intrinsic dynamics, similar to those found in humans and animals, robots like the four-legged BERT can operate with less energy. This development contributes to making robots faster and more dynamic. [read more]

Mapping and analysing the forest with robots: This is the aim of the EU research project Digiforest, which MIRMI Professor Stefan Leutenegger is coordinating. [read more]

Robotics and AI researchers at the MIRMI will be working with physically impaired and disabled people from the Pfennigparade Foundation in future. Over the next three years, the aim is to develop technical ideas that will make people's lives easier. [read more]

Sebastian Steinhorst wants to make intelligent networked systems as powerful and efficient as possible, sees immense potential in generative AI, and works with Siemens on the industrial metaverse. Among other things, the industrial company is helping the professor from the Technical University of Munich, who is associated with MIRMI, to subject new developments to a reality check. An interview by Katharina Frantz [read more]

A myoelectric prosthesis for the hand is the focus of the CyberTUM student team. At the Cybathlon 2024, pilot Adnan Jukic will control it in the Arm Prothesis Race with the help of muscle signals in the forearm. The technical concept was developed by students from the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as part of a course. [read more]

Modelling the teleoperation of service robots with the help of an exoskeleton of the upper limbs: This is the topic of a new publication presented by the Geriatronics team at the IROS robotics trade fair in Abu Dhabi. PhD student Moein Forouhar explains how the new approach works. [read more]

At the international robotics conference IROS 2024, we are once again living up to our top-tier status: TUM MIRMI leads the field of scientific contributions by a wide margin. With 58 publications, 4 workshops, one competition, and one tutorial, the Technical University of Munich surpasses renowned institutions like UC Berkeley, Zhejiang University, and ETH Zurich. [read more]