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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

At TUM, we are investigating and developing intelligent systems, while keeping an eye on our responsibility for people and society at all times. Find out what's new in the fields of AI, robotics, machine learning and data science.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI applications are profoundly changing the world of work, research and everyday life. We are helping to shape this technological progress: in research, in studies and teaching and in the field of entrepreneurship. This includes new methods and applications of AI, subject-specific degree programs, new teaching and learning methods and cooperation with industry.

AI at the TUM

9/17/2025
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TUM presents powerful diving robot equipped with gripper

Autonomous underwater waste collection soon to be a reality

Marine litter is a major environmental problem around the world. As part of the EU project SEACLEAR 2.0, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed an autonomous diving robot that can detect and retrieve litter. It uses an AI system to analyze objects with ultrasound and cameras, picks them up and brings them to the surface. The autonomous underwater waste collection system demonstrated its capabilities for the first time in the port of Marseille in France.

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Research Artificial Intelligence
Teilnehmende des IAA Roundtable „Modellregionen für Autonomes Fahren im ÖPNV“ im Hof der Staatskanzlei vor autonom fahrenden Fahrzeugen
9/10/2025
Reading time: 5 Min.

IAA Roundtable: MCube launches initiative for autonomous mobility

Model regions for autonomous driving in public transport and freight transport decided

On the initiative of the research community, Germany's transport industry and politicians are committed to promoting autonomous driving in public transport and freight transport. MCube, the “Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions” led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Digital Hub Mobility of UnternehmerTUM, and the “Mobile Future Munich” (MZM) alliance have jointly executed a letter of intent to this effect.

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President Research Sustainability Mobility Artificial Intelligence Public Engagement
9/10/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

Autonomous ultrasound systems

Avatar’s presence inspires trust

Patients have more confidence in autonomous robotic ultrasound systems when an avatar guides them through the process. This was discovered by Prof. Nassir Navab from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The virtual agent explains what it is doing, answers questions and can speak any language. Such systems are intended especially for use in regions where there is a shortage of doctors.

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Research Artificial Intelligence
Prof. Lukas Heinrich
9/4/2025
Reading time: 6 Min.

EU funding for projects in informatics, medicine, life sciences and natural sciences

Six ERC Starting Grants for researchers at TUM

Why do some neurons fall silent in Alzheimer’s disease? How can particle simulations be accelerated? How much CO₂ can trees store during droughts? These are some of the questions being addressed by six research projects at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), which will now receive support from the prestigious ERC Starting Grants awarded by the European Research Council.

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Research Artificial Intelligence
View of a patient and two doctors through an MRI machine.
9/3/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

Global study reveals differences in the acceptance of artificial intelligence

How patients view medical AI

How physicians feel about artificial intelligence in medicine has been studied many times. But what do patients think? A team led by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has investigated this for the first time in a large study spanning six continents. The central finding: the worse people rate their own health, the more likely they are to reject the use of AI. The study is intended to help align future medical AI applications more closely with patients’ needs.

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Research Artificial Intelligence
9/2/2025
Reading time: 2 Min.

Bavarian Ministries of Science and Economic Affairs provide 4.475 million euros

The Technical University of Munich establishes a center for AI chips

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is establishing an education, training, and research center for AI chip design. “Here, students and researchers will learn how AI chips are designed and developed using advanced technologies,” says Hussam Amrouch, head of the center and professor of AI processor design. The key partner is TSMC, the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer. The Bavarian state government is supporting the center with 4.475 million euros.

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Teaching Studies Artificial Intelligence
8/7/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

Construction through human-machine teamwork

Climate-optimized construction with robots

A straight wall is not necessarily a climate-optimized wall. Depending on the wall’s exposure to sun and shade, there is an ideal angle for individual bricks. The calculations come from a digital design configurator – and in the future, a robot will help craftsmen to position the bricks precisely. In a workshop with apprentice bricklayers, this human-machine cooperation in construction has been tested under real-world conditions by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Munich-Ebersberg Construction Guild.

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Teaching Research Sustainability Artificial Intelligence
Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa with a colleague in front of PC screens
7/25/2025
Reading time: 4 Min.

Faster diagnoses and shorter examinations

Artificial intelligence in medicine and everyday clinical practice

Artificial intelligence (AI) is also used in the medical field, to evaluate data or search for patterns in large amounts of data. Researchers at Technical University of Munich (TUM) are working on making these human-AI collaborations safe, reliable and efficient.

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Research Artificial Intelligence Community
Parts of an aerospace combustion chamber made of copper alloy (CuCrNb)
7/24/2025
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EU Project InShaPe Boosts Metal Additive Manufacturing

Breakthrough in Efficiency, Affordability and Sustainability

Sixfold increase in productivity, production costs halved, energy consumption and material wastage significantly reduced, component quality improved – the EU-funded research project InShaPe has published impressive numbers. Over the past three years, the consortium has developed a new process optimisation approach that combines AI-based beam shaping with multispectral imaging (MSI) in the laser-based powder bed fusion of metals (PBF-LB/M) additive manufacturing process. The Professorship of Laser-based Additive Manufacturing at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) coordinated the project, working with ten other partners from eight countries. Funded by the European Union, InShaPe received 7.2 million euros from the Horizon Europe framework programme.

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Research Sustainability Artificial Intelligence
Founder Florian Scherl at the TUM Incubator
7/21/2025
Reading time: 3 Min.

Start-up FAST AI Movies

Starting a company while still at school

The day before his high school diploma math exam, Florian Scherl was not studying at home. Instead, he was in a notary’s office, founding his own company aged just 18. Now, three years later, the Informatics student is recruiting his first employees.

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