Research

Impressive news! Prof. Jia Chen will receive one of the internationally highly regarded ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) for 2022. Her research project CoSense4Climate will be funded for a period of up to five years with up to 2 million euros. [read more]

We are happy to announce the outcome of the second Call for MIRMI Seed Funding. Within this round, MIRMI will provide funding for four collaborative scientific proposals. The goal of the seed funding initiative is to foster joint projects within the broad variety of topics in the field of robotics and machine intelligence at the initial stage. The review process is organized completely independently by the MIRMI Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Chairman Prof. Seth Hutchinson, takes care that each proposal is reviewed by multiple SAB members. Possible disagreement between reviewers is resolved… [read more]

As a research assistant with Prof. Michael Gee in the research group of Mechanics and High Performance Computing, Tahar Arjoune has a big goal: The doctoral student in cardiac modeling and simulation would like to develop a digital twin of the heart and the circulatory system in order to predict the outcome of valve replacement and support the clinicians in their decision making. [read more]

After almost three years of development, the time has come: For the first time, a robot in the experimental operating theatre of the MITI research group takes over the tasks of an "operating theatre jumper" in the non-sterile area. He fetches sterile materials - such as suture material or surgical gloves - from the warehouse, brings them to the operating theatre, opens the packaging and hands the sterile goods to the surgeon. Lukas Bernhard, a doctoral student at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), talks about the capabilities of the AURORA robot. [read more]

Yesterday, Benjamin Bogenberger was presented with the VDE Bayern Award in the Science category for his Bachelor's thesis at the VDE Bayern Abend 2022 at the Bayerischer Hof. The then Bachelor’s student of electrical engineering and information technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a solution that enables a robot to plan new paths using user guidance while reliably avoiding collisions with suddenly appearing obstacles. [read more]

On Friday, Nov 11, 2022, the MIRMI team had the pleasure of receiving Prof. Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard and the PhD student Juan Heredia from the Mc-Kinney Møller Institute of SDU, University of Southern Denmark at our research facility in Georg-Brauchle-Ring in Munich. Our guests gave a Talk titled “Software Engineering of Robotic Systems”. The presentation was followed by a Q&A session. Then we had a demo tour where key topics such as safety, data security, energy efficiency, user-based robotics solutions were discussed. [read more]

+70 researchers from several TUM Chairs will be presenting groundbreaking results on intelligent robots and smart machines at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), one of the largest and most impacting robotics research conferences in the world. The conference runs from October 23–27, 2022 in Kyoto, Japan. 46 publications written by different TUM Chairs affiliated with MIRMI were accepted at IROS 2022. [read more]

With Prof. Achim Lilienthal, one of the world's leading scientists for robots' olfatory perception has moved from the University of Örebro in Sweden to the Technical University of Munich (TUM). In his new Chair of Perception of Intelligent Systems, the focus is on robots with a sense of smell as well as mobile, and AI-enabled robots. [read more]

In the Providentia++ project, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have worked with industry partners to develop a technology to complement the vehicle perspective based on onboard sensor input with a bird’s-eye view of traffic conditions. This improves road safety – also for autonomous driving. [read more]

In the recently launched EU-funded Horizon project euROBIN, the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) is coordinating the work package „Robotic Manufacturing for a Circular Economy ". In addition, MIRMI's Robothon® Grand Challenge idea is being expanded to cooperate with euROBIN’s yearly Robotic Challenges. The Chief of Science at MIRMI, Dr. Utku Culha, tells us about the tasks of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). [read more]