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Physicist Professor Jörg Kröger of the TU Ilmenau has been awarded the Thuringian Research Award 2023 in the category of basic research.

"Flora Incognita," Germany's most popular plant identification app, has received new artificial intelligence - as a result, the number of plant species that can be determined has tripled: Around 16,000 species can now be identified worldwide. In addition, the app, which is now available in 20 languages, now also works in offline mode, and its digital educational offering includes a wealth of new information, such as improved distribution maps of many species.

The Technische Universität Ilmenau has developed an innovative audio technology for augmented and virtual reality that makes it possible to generate virtual sound sources in a natural environment.

In a major collaborative research project, the Technische Universität Ilmenau and six partners have developed an assistance robot that enables people in need of care to communicate from home and thus stay connected with the people who care for them.

The Technische Universität Ilmenau is involved in a major european project that is making air transport fit for a sustainable and climate-neutral future.

The TU Ilmenau is involved in a large-scale research project that will further develop 6G, the next-generation mobile network, to enable new multimedia applications.

A team of students, graduates of the TU Ilmenau as well as external musicians, dancers and filmmakers has realized the musical series "Dancing in the Shadow" at the TU Ilmenau.

With the research project "Digital Astronaut - Outboard Mission in Space", the TU Ilmenau has won the university competition "Science Year 2023 - Our Universe".

In a major international research project, the Technische Universität Ilmenau is developing a telemedicine method that will enable stroke patients to undergo rehabilitation at home.

A research team at Technische Universität Ilmenau has succeeded in further developing a fundamentally new and very material-saving approach. This approach uses additive material synthesis for semiconductor metallization. The research results, developed in the Nanotechnology Group under the leadership of Professor Heiko Jacobs, follow up on prior publications on lateral nanobridge growth (Advanced Materials 2016, IEEE 2018, IEEE 2020) and open up news ways to connect metallization layers vertically, point-to-point, using a plasma jet process.

On January 28, the First Lego League Challenge will take place at Technische Universität Ilmenau. In the research and robotics competition, students from Germany, Austria and Switzerland will compete against each other.

Students at Technische Universität Ilmenau have won the COSIMA competition of the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies VDE at the world's leading electronics trade fair electronica in Munich with their invention of an "intelligent T-shirt".

Topic: Production and properties of porous metals - in particular aluminum foams Speaker: Dr. Günther Lange, TU Ilmenau, Department of Mechanical Engineering, acting head of the Group of Metall