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From the city to the airport by air taxi: Since the airport operator Fraport and the startup Volocopter from Bruchsal have been investigating the integration of autonomous air taxis into the operations at Frankfurt Airport, this is no longer fiction.

In order to mark the official start of the Cluster of Excellence, a kick-off had taken place on Thursday, 11th July 2019.

Dissertation prize for physician Dr. med. Robert Seifert, whose MD thesis is based on interdisciplinary collaboration supported by the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence. Medicine and Computer Science are two disciplines that many people would not automatically associate with each other. For Dr. Robert Seifert, however, they are, as he puts it, "a perfectly normal combination" and closely interlinked.

To celebrate the launch of its Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM), the Technical University of Munich (TUM) hosted a high-caliber robotics congress with international guests and a big opening ceremony at the Pinakothek der Moderne.

Hours of contemplation, approaching a solution in small steps, and a healthy scepticism towards computer-generated results. In these guest articles, two mathematicians at the University of Münster, Dr. Franziska Jahnke und Dr. Mira Schedensack , explain what mathematical research means to them and what the aim of this research is.

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) receives special recognition for excellent research in the engineering sciences: The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded future funding to three proje

TUM's anniversary year, Campus news On the 150th anniversary of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the satellite TerraSAR-X sent a very special greeting: On June 12th scientists set up 26 reflectors on the southern lawn of the Alte Pinakothek Museum.

Research news How can success in soccer be measured? With the amount of positional data available in modern soccer, this question seems particularly interesting in the run-up to a World Cup.

Research news Nanotechnology, robotics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence - how will today's technologies change the world of tomorrow?

Campus news The theme of Science Year 2018 is the working worlds of tomorrow, "Arbeitswelten der Zukunft".

Methods from optogenetics and machine learning should help improve treatment options for stroke patients.

Research news Compare any movie from the early nineties with one from 2017, and you'll see just how far moviemakers have progressed in their use of CGI - computer generated imagery - for realistically simulating either parts of or entire scenes in a movie.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) celebrated a cornerstone ceremony on October 26, 2017, for a new cybersecurity research center at the Garching campus.

Campus news The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is again celebrating its success as a recipient of Germany's best-endowed international research award: The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)

Research news The aim of the DIFUTURE (Data Integration for Future Medicine) project is to collate and analyze digital patient data with a view to improving our understanding of diseases and allowing doctors to reach the individual right decisions faster.

Campus news What impact will automation have on the job market? How will collaborative robots - so called 'cobots', that work hand in hand with humans - change our work lives' The new issue of 'Techno

Research news Today, tracking the development of individual cells and spotting the associated factors under the microscope is nothing unusual.

Campus news For the first time, spin-offs from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have won all three "VisionAwards".