Am 26. Juli 2018 lud die Bayerische Staatskanzlei in der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen zum Zukunftskongress ein. Nach einer Eröffnung durch Dr. Markus Söder (bayerischer Ministerpräsident) und Georg Eisenreich (Staatsminister für Digitales, Medien und Europa) folgten Vorträge und Diskussionen zu gesellschaftlich relevanten Themenkomplexen wie „Innovation und Startups“, „Demokratie und Werte“ und „Digitale Bildung“. Um den Teilnehmern die Chance zu bieten, die digitalisierte Welt anschaulicher zu erleben, stellte das Institut für Robotik und Mechatronik den humanoiden Roboter David zur Verfügung.
What is the state of digitization in the healthcare sector? Which technological developments are trend-setting and which key technologies need to be improved? These and other questions were the focus of the Congress of the Zukunftsrat of the Bavarian Economy, which took place on 16 July 2018 in Munich.
Bereits zum achten Mal nimmt das Institut Robotik und Mechatronik an der Fachmesse Automatica teil. Die Automatica findet vom 19. bis 22. Juni in München statt.
In future, robot assistants will be able to support people at home or in care facilities if the tasks associated with everyday life become too much of a burden. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) working on the SMiLE project have developed technologies that provide efficient daily assistance to people requiring care or with special needs. The project was presented to the Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs, Energy and Technology, Franz Josef Pschierer, and the general public on 7 and 8 May in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Vom 13. bis 15. März 2018 fand in Tampere, Finnland, das diesjährige European Robotics Forum statt. Im Rahmen der Konferenz wurden Dr. Daniel Leidner und Dr. Johannes Englsberger für ihre erfolgreich abgeschlossenen Dissertationen jeweils mit dem Georges Giralt PhD-Award ausgezeichnet.
The operator orbits Earth at an altitude of 400 kilometres, while the assistant works on the ground. During the 'SUPVIS Justin' experiment, those who send and receive commands conduct a long-distance relationship. Aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on 2 March 2018, United States astronaut Scott Tingle selected the required commands on a tablet, while the robot Justin of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) performed the necessary work on a solar panel in a terrestrial laboratory in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, as instructed.
Head of the Institute: Prof. Dr. Alin Albu-Schäffer
The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics develops a wide array of robots to enable humans to interact more safely and efficiently with their surrounding environments. The robots are designed to act in surroundings inaccessible or dangerous to humans as well as to support humans in everyday life and work.
Our robots mimic and extend upon the manipulation and locomotion capabilities of humans on a functional level. In a more general sense, they perform any tasks of locomotion and interaction with the environment with a wide range of autonomy to suit different tasks. As a key aspect for the usability of robots, we address the interfaces to humans through multimodal human-robot interaction.