The Munich Institute for Robotics and Machine Intelligence (TUM MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and NEURA Robotics are creating the world’s largest robotics research and training center. The project, led by TUM MIRMI professors Lorenzo Masia and Achim Lilienthal, will develop and train hundreds of robotic systems, many of them humanoids, with AI support for future use in everyday life. A new robot hub is being built at the TUM Convergence Center.
The partners are jointly investing €17 million in TUM RoboGym. NEURA Robotics is contributing the bulk of the €11 million, primarily to procure the robots and maintain the hardware infrastructure. “In return, NEURA Robotics will participate in our research,” says Professor Achim Lilienthal. “The interaction of high-end robotics technology with cutting-edge academic research in artificial intelligence will significantly boost development.” Lilienthal is the scientific coordinator of the new robotics hub “TUM RoboGym (powered by NEURA)”, a large-scale training facility where robots learn tasks from human demonstrations, and together with Lorenzo Masia, started the new collaboration with MIRMI. Partners TUM MIRMI and NEURA Robotics have signed a cooperation agreement to establish the center.
Humanoid robots are becoming a part of daily life
“Humanoid robots have long left the world of science fiction. In the near future, robots will become an integral part of everyday life, supporting humans in many tasks. Together with NEURA Robotics, we at TUM aim to accelerate this development by evolving robot capabilities while enabling humans and robots to coexist and work together safely.”
said David Reger, Founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics. “The decisive competitive factor in intelligent robotics is no longer machines, but data. Those with high-quality, realistic training data will set the pace. We at NEURA Robotics is contributing to its strengths by establishing robot gyms around the world, connecting training data through the Neuraverse platform, and building a scalable training infrastructure for physical AI. Together with TUM, we are combining excellent research with entrepreneurial implementation. In this way, we are setting new standards in intelligent robotics and strengthening Germany and Europe’s technological leadership in this important field of the future. ”
Professor Lorenzo Macia, Director of TUM RoboGym and Secretary General of TUM MIRMI, sees this collaboration as an opportunity to shape the future of robotics around the world. “In an era of geopolitical competition between East and West, Europe’s sovereignty is of great importance. With this research and training center, one of the largest in the world, we will provide researchers and students with a unique infrastructure in Europe where they can experience, create and learn new approaches to robotics and AI, and learn about the future of robotics. It will become a solid central core for European professionals to enter the job market.”
