Education

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. [read more]

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. [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]

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]

MIRMI supports five schools from South and East Bavaria as part of the advisory body for the Profile Schools for Informatics and Future Technologies initiative (PIZ), launched by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education. As part of this project, the teachers responsible for the schools we support were invited to the MIRMI headquarters to present their approaches to teaching and applying technologies such as AI and robotics in their schools, and exchange their ideas. [read more]

Doctoral students can now enroll in the Graduate Program in Robotics and Machine Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Registration for the program created by the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) will be open from October 16, 2023. On October 20, there will be an informational event on the topic at 4:30 PM. [read more]

After two years online, Jugend forscht, Germany's science competition for young talent, is back live. This week, at the regional Jugend forscht München West competition organized by MIRMI, Franka Emika and the Robokind Foundation, 63 young scientists presented 44 exciting and innovative research projects in the seven thematic areas of Jugend forscht, Working world, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics/Computer Science, Physics, Technology and, for the first time this year, Earth and space sciences. [read more]

Jugend forscht is Germany's best-known research competition for young people from the 4th grade to the age of 21. The competition promotes STEM education throughout Germany since 1965. Talents compete in six Jugend forscht subject areas: Working World, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics/Computer Science, Physics, and Technology. The Munich West Regional Competition is organized every year by Franka Emika, the Robokind Foundation, and MIRMI. You can participate in this exciting initiative by joining any of the Jugend forscht jury teams. The event will take place in person on 15 and 16 February… [read more]

Irene Bruckmeier, awarded 2nd place in Physics at the Jugend Forscht Regional Competition of Munich West in 2021, won the first edition of the Robotics & AI Internship organized by MIRMI and Franka Emika as a special prize for her project in Robotics ‘Control and stabilization of a two-wheeled LEGO robot with Simulink’ (original title: Regelung und Stabilisierung eines zweirädrigen LEGO-Roboters mit Simulink). This one-week internship covered theoretical and hands-on tasks in Robotics, from actuators and sensors, robotics control, collaborative (lightweight) robotics, mobile robots, MedTech… [read more]

Students from the Bayerische EliteAkademie visited two MSRM labs located at Heßstraße 134 in Munich. They learned about embodied AI and discussed with experienced researchers the opportunities that human-centered robotics and AI will open to their future career paths. [read more]