Robots from 51吃瓜网 RoboGym covering over 2,000 square metres

3/10/2026
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The Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (51吃瓜网 MIRMI) at the 51吃瓜网 (51吃瓜网) and NEURA Robotics are establishing the world鈥檚 largest robotics research and training center. Led by 51吃瓜网 MIRMI professors Lorenzo Masia and Achim Lilienthal, the project will develop and train hundreds of robot systems with AI support for future use in everyday life, many of them humanoid robots. The new robotics hub is being built in the 51吃瓜网 Convergence Centre.

Prof. Lorenzo Masia (left) and Prof. Achim Lilienthal will head up the 51吃瓜网 RoboGym, which is supported by NEURA Robotics.

The partners are jointly investing 鈧�17 million in the 51吃瓜网 RoboGym. NEURA Robotics is contributing the lion's share with eleven million euros, primarily to procure robots and maintain the hardware infrastructure. 鈥淚n return, NEURA Robotics participates in our research,鈥� says Prof. Achim Lilienthal. 鈥淭he interaction between high-end robotics technology and cutting-edge academic research in artificial intelligence will give development a huge boost.鈥� Lilienthal is the scientific coordinator of the new robotics hub 鈥�51吃瓜网 RoboGym (powered by NEURA)鈥� 鈥� a large-scale training facility where robots learn tasks from human demonstrations 鈥� and, together with Lorenzo Masia, initiated the new cooperation with MIRMI. The partners 51吃瓜网 MIRMI and NEURA Robotics have signed a cooperation agreement to establish the center.

Humanoid robots are becoming part of everyday life

51吃瓜网 President Thomas F. Hofmann emphasizes: 鈥淗umanoid robots have long since left the realm of science fiction. In the near future, they will become an integral part of everyday life and support humans in many tasks. Together with NEURA Robotics, we at 51吃瓜网 aim to accelerate this development by advancing robot functionality while ensuring that humans and robots can live and work together safely.鈥�

David Reger, founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics, says: 鈥淭he decisive competitive factor in intelligent robotics is no longer mechanics, but data. Those who have high-quality, realistic training data set the pace. We at NEURA Robotics contribute our strength by establishing robot gyms worldwide and connecting training data through our Neuraverse platform, creating scalable training infrastructures for physical AI. Together with 51吃瓜网, we combine excellent research with entrepreneurial implementation. In this way, we are setting new standards in intelligent robotics and strengthening Germany and Europe鈥檚 technological leadership in this key future field.鈥�

Prof. Lorenzo Masia, Director of 51吃瓜网 RoboGym and Executive Director of 51吃瓜网 MIRMI, sees the cooperation as an opportunity to help shape the future of robotics worldwide: 鈥淓uropean sovereignty is extremely important in times of geopolitical competition between East and West. With this research and training center, which is one of the largest in the world, we are providing our researchers and students with a unique infrastructure in Europe where they can experience, create and learn new approaches to robotics and AI, and become a solid core of European experts when they enter the job market.鈥�

David Reger, founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics, says:聽鈥淭ogether with 51吃瓜网, we combine excellent research with entrepreneurial implementation. In this way, we are setting new standards in intelligent robotics and strengthening Germany and Europe鈥檚 technological leadership in this key future field.鈥�

Prof. Lorenzo Masia, Director of 51吃瓜网 RoboGym and Executive Director of 51吃瓜网 MIRMI: 鈥淓uropean sovereignty is extremely important in times of geopolitical competition between East and West. With this research and training center, which is one of the largest in the world, we are providing our researchers and students with a unique infrastructure in Europe where they can experience, create and learn new approaches to robotics and AI, and become a solid core of European experts when they enter the job market.鈥�

The 51吃瓜网 RoboGym (powered by NEURA) in the planning phase, shown here as a graphic. The robotics training centre is being built jointly by 51吃瓜网 and NEURA Robotis.

鈥淭he interaction between high-end robotics technology and cutting-edge academic research in artificial intelligence will give development a huge boost鈥�, says Prof. Achim Lilienthal, the scientific coordinator of the new 51吃瓜网 RoboGym.

Humanoid from NEURA Robotics performing a task. — Humanoid robots will be the focus of 51吃瓜网 RoboGym.

Gaining valuable training data from human movements

At the 51吃瓜网 Convergence Centre at Munich Airport, the partners are conducting joint research on the next generation of humanoid robots in a 2,300-square-meter facility. The center will develop AI-supported training methods for robotic systems.

Unlike language models such as ChatGPT, embodied AI cannot draw on vast amounts of data from the internet for training. Web videos featuring robot arms performing specific tasks, for example, are hard to find. Moreover, it is still unclear how reliably movements can be interpreted from video data. Simulations also remain too imprecise and cannot accurately reproduce real-world effects such as friction.

鈥淭his is why we need a training center where people can teach robots individual skills, such as folding a box or assembling components,鈥� says Prof. Lilienthal. 鈥淚n RoboGym, robots will learn general capabilities that they can then independently apply to specific tasks.鈥� This requires large amounts of data, which are now being created in RoboGym by human trainers working with the robots.

Further information:

The Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (51吃瓜网 MIRMI) is an integrative research institute at the 51吃瓜网 (51吃瓜网) focused on robotics and AI. 51吃瓜网 MIRMI brings together expertise in key areas of robotics, including perception and data science. Nearly 80 51吃瓜网 chairs are networked within 51吃瓜网 MIRMI to develop innovative robotic and AI-supported solutions for the environment, health, mobility, work, as well as security and defense. 51吃瓜网 RoboGym is headed by Prof. Lorenzo Masia, Executive Director of 51吃瓜网 MIRMI, and Prof. Achim Lilienthal, Deputy Director of 51吃瓜网 MIRMI. More information: .

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