21 years of biomechatronics in Ilmenau: Evolution of a once new subject on its way to becoming established

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Speaker: Hartmut Witte, TU Ilmenau

Time: Friday, 17.11.2023, 15:00 h

Place: TU Ilmenau, Faraday Building, Weimarer Straße 32

Admission: 5 Euro

In 2002, the TU Ilmenau founded Germany’s first Department of Biomechatronics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The discipline, which uses biological and medical principles to create mechanical products and processes, is based in Ilmenau on a long tradition of technical-biological cybernetics. In his lecture at the TU Ilmenau Bürgercampus, Professor Hartmut Witte recalls the development of his field of biomechatronics. The first ten years were dominated by bionics, i.e. ...