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IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Feature Article
Our joint effort on the first SPECT imaging using a miniaturized drop-in gamma detector and the da Vinci surgical system has not just been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, but is one of the currently featured articles. Find the...[more]
Article about Prof. Lee in MATERIC
An article at MATERIC (Mechanical, Architectural, and Traffic Engineering Research Information Center) was published today about the research of Prof. Lee at the Dynamic Human Robotics Lab, Technical University of Munich. The article is only available in Korean:...[more]
Article about Prof. Cheng in Süddeutsche Zeitung
In an article published at Süddeutsche Zeitung today, Prof. Cheng explains his favorite piece of art at the museum Pinakothek der Moderne. The article is only available in German: www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/werk-der-wahl-leidenschaftlich-forschen-1.2772982 Originally posted...[more]
Helmholtz professorship for Dongheui Lee
Professor Lee has been granted a highly sought-after Helmholtz professorship. Nation-wide, only six of these professorships have been awarded in 2015. This support, amounting to one million euros, strengthen's TUM'srobotics research in collaboration with the German Aerospace...[more]
New Publication in Interaction Studies
We have a new publication out - congratulations to the autors: Agnieszka Wykowska, Jasmin Kajopoulos, Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Gordon Cheng for their paper on "Autistic traits and sensitivity to human-like features of robot behavior" Published in: Interaction Studies,...[more]
Faszination Forschung: "Robot Intuition"
To ensure that robots can work with humans safely and intuitively in the future, control systems engineer Sandra Hirche and her team are researching new control mechanisms based on mathematical models of human behavior. Their work should enable a robot to accurately predict the...[more]
New publication
Congratulations to Mohsen Kaboli and Gordon Cheng for a new publication! Humanoids learn touch modalities identification via multi-modal robotic skin and robust tactile descriptors by Mohsen Kaboli, Alex Long, Gordon Cheng in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 29, Iss. 21,...[more]
New video online
Here is the video media attachment to our Artificial Intelligence journal paper: Transferring Skills to Humanoid Robots by Extracting Semantic Representations from Observations of Human Activities. Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Michael Beetz, Gordon Cheng. Artificial Intelligence...[more]
New video on Semantic Representation
Here is the video media attachment to the conference paper: "Robust Semantic Representations for Inferring Human Co-manipulation Activities even with Different Demonstration Styles" by Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Emmanuel Dean-Leon, and Gordon Cheng. It will be presented...[more]
Robots learn to walk
Springs instead of muscles: The "ATRIAS" robot walks like a human[more]