The Science Council has approved the construction of a new research building at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The TUM Embodied Experimental Intelligence Center (TUM ELI) will receive €51 million in funding from 2024. This research facility he plans to open in 2028.
Currently, there is little automation in the experimental research process. A researcher spends one-third of his time doing actual experiments in the lab. “The goal of TUM ELI is to automate the design and execution of experiments,” explains Professor Eckehard Steinbach, one of the co-developers of the concept. “The ‘ELI-AI’ system communicates with researchers. It conducts experiments and suggests ways to continue or modify them,” says Startup and Infrastructure Manager at the Munich Institute for Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI). Director and Head of Media Technology at TUM, said. “The use of artificial intelligence holds the potential for new solutions such as DNA-based structures for transporting drugs in the body,” he believes MIRMI Executive Director Professor Sami Haddadin. “TUM ELI is designed to embody a robot-based laboratory. It aims at the concept of a-service and the creation of new knowledge with AI.” will become necessary.
TUM ELI: Focus on the Nano/Micro World
The basic idea behind TUM ELI is to make the smallest robotic structure the subject of research and part of the solution. “We are moving into an exciting dimension with never-before-seen challenges,” confidently declares Professor Steinbach of TUM. For example, existing processes and technologies for communication and information processing in the macro world cannot be ported to the nano/micro world. This requires an entirely new solution. The concept includes research initiatives ranging from ‘intelligent networked assistants’ and ‘co-manufacturing of nano- and micromachines’ to ‘integrated communication and information processing’.
From micromachines and nanoprinters to scanning electron microscopes
Technologies developed at TUM ELI will include micromachines that can move around the human body, presumably to collect and analyze tissue particles. The facility includes advanced experimental equipment such as scanning electron microscopes and nanoprinters that can be used by macrorobots. “In that respect, we are primarily thinking of mobile platforms or collaborative robots that perform tasks for researchers, such as positioning samples for study under a microscope,” Steinbach explains.
Currently, MIRMI lacks rooms and facilities for automatically generating knowledge in experimental science. TUM is currently creating this experimental space with TUM ELI. Designed to function as a shared facility as well, it will become a center of cutting-edge research for scientists from around the world in the future.
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Das TUM ELI fördert die Standortübergreifende Zusammenarbeit international führender Wissenschaftler: innen in den Bereichen Robotik und maschinelles Lernen (Prof. Sami Haddadin, Prof. Angela Schoellig), Communication und Computing (Prof. Holger Boche, Prof. Wolfgang Kellerer), Perzeption und Mensch- Roboter- In cooperation with Interaktion (Prof. Sandra Hirche, Prof. Eckehard Steinbach), Nano- und Mikromaschinen (Prof. Berna Özkale Edelmann, Prof. Hendrik Dietz, Prof. Friedrich Simmel).
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