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Artificial Intelligence is transforming our work, our research, and our daily lives. Discover how we are helping to shape this progress through innovative AI methods and applications.

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Johanna Pirker, Professor of N-Dimensional User Experience
2/13/2026
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TUM professor contributes expertise to global AI committee

Johanna Pirker appointed to UN expert panel on AI

The United Nations has appointed Johanna Pirker to the new Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence (AI). This high-level panel will assess the global opportunities and risks of AI from a scientific perspective, helping to ensure that international deliberations on AI are informed by the best available evidence. Forty experts from around the world were selected. Pirker is a professor of N-Dimensional User Experience at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

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Artificial Intelligence Community
Start der TUM Security and Defense Alliance - mittig v.l. TUM Präsident Thomas F. Hofmann, Bayerns Wissenschaftsminister Markus Blume, Prof. Eva-Maria Kern, Präsidentin der UniBw M
2/9/2026
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European security, defense, and technological sovereignty

TUM establishes the TUM Security and Defense Alliance together with partners

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of the Bundeswehr Munich (UniBw M) are sending a strong signal for European security and defense capabilities and technological sovereignty: Together with industrial partners, start-ups, the TUM Venture Labs and public sector stakeholders, the "TUM Security and Defense Alliance" was launched as a strategic, interdisciplinary innovation hub for security and defense technologies.

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President Research Entrepreneurship Artificial Intelligence
Portrait photo of Prof. Dr. Daniel Rückert in a TUM building
2/6/2026

New elite master's program

AI in Biomedicine

More than a degree: Leibniz Prize winner Daniel Rückert talks about the potential of the new elite master's program at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biomedicine, the future of personalized medicine, and his personal expectations for the new program.

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Studies Artificial Intelligence
2/4/2026
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TUM achieves EU research breakthrough

First university-designed 7-nanometer AI chip

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has unveiled the EU's first AI chip using modern 7-nanometer technology. The neuromorphic chip was designed by Prof. Hussam Amrouch in accordance with the industry standards set by world-leading chip manufacturer TSMC. The professor of AI processor design and his research group now plan to produce at least three new designs per year, to be manufactured from 2028 onward by the Dresden-based European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC).

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President Research Quantum Technologies Artificial Intelligence
1/22/2026
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Technical University of Munich (TUM) develops new robotic nursing assistant

Researchers present new Garmi

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a new robotic assistant. Robotics researchers from the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) and designers from the Munich Design Institute (MDI) collaborated closely on this project. The research team presented the new robot to the public on the occasion of a visit to the Garmisch Research Centre by Judith Gerlach, Minister of State for Health, Care and Prevention.

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Research Artificial Intelligence
12/1/2025
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Central Car Server (CeCaS) for highly automated vehicles

Software architecture for future cars

To make autonomous vehicles as safe, affordable and competitive as possible, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have teamed up with partners from the automotive industry to develop a centralized architecture for the software-controlled vehicle of the future. The software is largely self-generating and allows the advance simulation of any scenario involving autonomous vehicles on a test bench.

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Mobility Artificial Intelligence
Participants of the Global Technology Forum at the TUM Campus Heilbronn.
11/25/2025
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TUM Campus Heilbronn

Global Technology Forum Promotes International AI Research Collaboration

The Global Technology Forum of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) at the Heilbronn campus has established itself as a venue for international scientific exchange. Numerous scientists from several renowned international universities travelled to Heilbronn, a location for applied research and technological innovation.

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Sustainability Artificial Intelligence Public Engagement
A doctor examining a CT scan
11/21/2025
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Patients benefit from automatically simplified reports

AI helps cancer patients better understand CT reports

Medical reports written in technical terminology can pose challenges for patients. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has investigated how artificial intelligence can make CT findings easier to understand. In the study, reading time decreased, and patients rated the automatically simplified texts as more comprehensible and more helpful.

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Research Artificial Intelligence
Minister of Science Markus Blume with Prof. Pretschner and the founders of OneTutor.
11/18/2025
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The use of AI in lectures and exercises

Using AI tools to shape the future of higher education teaching

AI-supported teaching methods are becoming increasingly common in lectures and tutorials. During the visit by Bavarian Minister of Science Markus Blume to the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the focus was on various tools developed at Bavarian universities. In addition, the initial results of the research project “AIffectiveness in Education” were presented. Using OneTutor, an AI tutor software developed at TUM, the project investigates how effectively AI systems can support learning.

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11/17/2025
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Summit on European Digital Sovereignty in Berlin

New network for digital sovereignty

How can Europe become more sovereign in digital technologies? German Chancellor Merz, French President Macron and other EU politicians will discuss this question at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty. As part of the summit program, the European Network for Technological Resilience and Sovereignty was founded today with the aim of significantly advancing European innovation and independence in key technologies. One of its inaugural members is the TUM Think Tank.

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Research Artificial Intelligence Public Engagement
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