Research

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]

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]

These five highlights of geriatronics research from 2024 show the potential of care assistance robotics. Research in the field of geriatronics has been underway at the TU Munich campus in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for over five years. First and foremost is the GARMI care assistance robot. It is set to develop into an all-in-one helper and later assist nursing staff. GARMI's repertoire already includes a lot, from simple pick-up and delivery services to possible physiotherapeutic use in the rehabilitation of patients and telemedical applications such as ultrasound.  If you want to know how much… [read more]

Robots on an environmental mission, strong performance at the IROS robotics conference, exoskeleton expert new MIRMI Deputy Director: the highlights of 2024. [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]

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]