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Robotic assistive system

Soft exosuit supports standing up and walking

Getting up from a chair can be difficult for older people, often due to declining strength and coordination in the hip and...

9/28/2026 Reading time 3 min.

Entrepreneurship

Women Entrepreneurs Alliance

A new beginning for female founders

Seventeen institutions in Munich’s innovation ecosystem have joined forces to form the Women Entrepreneurs Alliance (WE...

9/25/2026 Reading time 2 min.

Oliver Lieleg, Professor für Biopolymermaterialien

Research

Biobased materials

New high-performance adhesive from mistletoe berries

High-performance adhesives are used in spacecraft, electronic devices and many other advanced technologies. Researchers at...

9/24/2026 Reading time 3 min.

From an elevated vantage point, you can see a crowd of people on the ground floor of a building. Some people are talking, while others are walking around and looking about. You can see a tube slide leading from the upper floors down to the ground floor.

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October 3, 2026

Open House at the Garching Research Campus

Listen to a Nobel laureate, follow the traces of the Big Bang, marvel at the world’s largest AI chip—on October 3, 2026,...

9/22/2026 Reading time 3 min.

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Our upcoming event highlights

10/1

Global insights on public transportation

Thu 10/1/2026, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Munich

Discuss the latest research on public mobility worldwide and network with others in person.

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10/3

Open House Research Campus Garching

Sat 10/3/2026, 8:00 am – 3:00 pm

Garching

Come to Garching and experience science up close in lectures, hands-on activities and guided tours.

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10/7

Does AI determine the value of life?

Wed 10/7/2026, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Munich

Join the discussion at the kickoff for the new event series from the M1 – Munich Medicine Alliance.

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10/7–8

AI@Strategy Conference

Wed 7 – Thu 10/8/2026

Munich, Heilbronn

How is AI changing strategies, organizations and entire value chains? Register for the conference now!

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What drives us: President Thomas F. Hofmann about TUM

Research and innovations for society, innovative teaching and continuing education: This is how we shape a sustainable future, relying on the intelligence of the entire university and working closely with global partners to do so.

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Our research goals

Understanding the essential foundations of life

We explore which fundamental forces and mechanisms shaped the universe and how its galaxies, stars and planets developed - and how life originated.

Maintaining health and targeting diseases

How will we treat serious illnesses in the future and how can we make reliable diagnoses more quickly? We address these questions with the latest technologies and methods.

Shaping a sustainable living environment

We combine all our expertise to slow down climate change and create sustainable places to live and work.

Creating new materials and manufacturing technologies

High-precision sensors on a quantum basis and new systems for storing energy - we develop digital manufacturing technologies and sustainable process engineering.

Pioneering digital transformation for a secure future

We develop secure digital technologies that make life and work easier. Our goal is to find solutions to questions of digital change and to constantly drive them forward.