Robotic systems will have a more significant impact on our future lives than ever before. Autonomous vehicles transport goods or people in our transportation networks, household robots support us with everyday tasks like cleaning or folding clothes, and healthcare robots operate in clinics or nurseries. Accordingly, the necessary skills should be developed early on in training and studies.
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A researcher at MIRMI, together with researchers from Örebro University, has developed an innovative approach to radar odometry, which earned the 'Best Paper Award in Computer & Robot Vision' from the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Computer & Robot Vision. Their work introduces CFEAR (Continuous Frequency Extended Adaptive Registration). This method surpasses existing algorithms in accuracy and generalizability across diverse environments, including smoky, dusty, or foggy conditions. We asked Prof. Achim Lilienthal three questions about this innovative method and its impact on radar odometry.
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Three years of successful Geriatronics Summit now followed by the first Summer School. From July 7 to 10, 2025, 40 selected young researchers will meet keynote speakers and professors from the field of care assistance robotics in specialist workshops in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. They will discuss, outline and develop ways to improve the future of ageing with robotics and AI.
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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 of Deputy Director at MIRMI.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Robots on an environmental mission, strong performance at the IROS robotics conference, exoskeleton expert new MIRMI Deputy Director: the highlights of 2024.
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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.
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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
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