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Last week, MITI had an amazing time at this year's CARS conference in Barcelona! Our team was happy to contribute with 14 Presentations, 2 Posters, 1 Keynote Lecture, 1 Panel Discussion and 3 Session Chairs. Thank you to the CARS community for an all-around great event and countless valuable insights. See you all next… [read more]

How could Technology help improve Staffing, Patient Experience and Sustainability? Prof. Dr. med. Dirk Wilhelm shared his ideas on answering this question at yesterday's expert panel at the health.tech conference. Thank you to all the panelists for a great discussion and many novel insights! [read more]

Prof. Dr. med. Dirk Wilhelm was guest on the podcast of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung with Prof. Peter Buxmann and Dr. Holger Schmidt and talked about the integration of Artificial Intelligence in surgical procedures and its potential impact on the future of healthcare. Link to Podcast [read more]

It was a pleasure to present our latest experimental research results at the DCK24 in Leipzig. Prof. Dr. med. Dirk Wilhelm addressed the future role  of robotic applications in a digital healthcare environment. Our research engineers (Lars Wagner, Luca Wegener) and physicians (Alissa Jell, Maximilian Berlet) shared… [read more]

Last week, the DGE-BV e.V. annual congress took place in Berlin, once again providing an excellent platform for researchers, students, and industry to exchange on the latest advances in the fields of endoscopy and imaging methods. At the CTAC session for Medical AI and Imaging methods, headed by Prof. Dr. med. Dirk… [read more]

In the program "Gesundheit!" of the Bayerischer Rundfunk we were able to present our vision for robotic assistance systems in hospitals. The robot systems on display were developed as part of the research projects AURORA (Siemens Healthineers, Franka Robotics, Evocortex, Technische Universität München) and SASHA-OR… [read more]

Over the last two weeks, our 25th and 26th Hands-on-Intensive Training for Engineers: Surgery in Practice took place. Thanks for the excellent exchange with our participants from KARL STORZ, KARL STORZ VentureONE, Richard Wolf GmbH, TÜV SÜD, medfacilities Betrieb GmbH, Fraunhofer IMTE, VDE, Baxter International Inc.,… [read more]

We were happy to be part of the founding ceremony of the TUM School of Medicine and Health. After inspiring keynotes by TUM president Prof. Dr. Thomas F. Hofmann, MRI Medical Director Dr Martin Siess and School Dean Prof. Stephanie E. Combs, a "Science Slam" of cutting-edge medical research work at TUM took place.… [read more]

Yesterday the Bavarian Minister of Science, Markus Blume, handed over the funding decision for the research project ForNeRo. The project is sponsored by the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung with 2 million euros and aims to improve the integration of robotic systems into the surgical workflow. In ForNeRo, the scientists… [read more]

Celebrating a motivating Kick-Off for TUM4HealthTech - our new research project which aims to reduce the workload of healthcare experts by integrating innovative technologies and ideas. In TUM4HealthTech we will analyze which clinical processes can benefit from the integration of assistive technologies and how… [read more]