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Drawing competition for pupils

The new round for our drawing competition starts today! Elementary school (Grundschule) classes can send in pictures on the topic: If I had a robot, he/she would ... We are looking forward to many pictures! All the details are on our website (in German only). [more]

Congratulations to Prof. Pablo Lanillos

Congratulations to Dr Pablo Lanillos: As of November 1, 2019, he has become Assistant Professor in Cognitive AI at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in the Netherlands. We wish him "Veel geluk"![more]

1st Research Seminar for Doctoral Candidates this Winter semester

The first research seminar this winter semester includes two presentations for the upcoming IROS conference:  Florian Bergner, Chair for Cognitive Systems on "Evaluation of a Large-Scale Event-Driven Robot Skin" Abstract: This paper evaluates and describes the...[more]

Press release on "Sensitive robots are safer"

Sensitive synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings – a crucial capability if they are to be in close contact with people. Inspired by human skin, a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a system combining artificial skin...[more]

Congratulations to Prof. Barbara Kühnlenz

Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Barbara Kühnlenz! From October 2019 on, she is professor of Business Psychology with focus on Technical Innovation/ Wirtschaftspsychologie im Masterstudiengang ZukunftsDesgin at the Hochschule Coburg. We wish her all the best for the future![more]