The Technical University of Munich, or TUM for short, is located between the A9 in the west and the Isar in the east. The campus of TUM is located on the second floor of the Siemens building..
A group of young engineers is already testing an industrial robot that will be able to pick and sort individual parts from boxes. The robot doesn't have to be laboriously programmed; thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), it can be controlled via voice command.. There are more combinations of possible movements than there are atoms on earth, says Siemens researcher Georg von Wichert. The concentration of various institutions in one place is based on a prominent Silicon Valley model in the US state of California. At the turn of the millennium, technology companies such as Google and Yahoo emerged around the Stanford University campus. In 2019, the Bavarian state government decided on a high-tech agenda with an investment volume of two billion euros; cooperation between universities, companies, and start-ups. But is there a danger in too close proximity between state universities and private companies? In the Federal Republic, Article 5 of the Basic Law is intended to guarantee freedom of research and teaching. The President of the TU Munich, Thomas Hofmann, assures: "At TUM we work very closely and trustingly with hundreds of established companies and start-ups. Unfortunately, in Germany, it is common to "conjure up dangers" instead of seeing the opportunities. "No company or university will solve humanity's great challenges alone," he emphasizes. Especially since the cooperation between the private sector and state universities is a political will to keep up with international competition.