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A team from the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich) unveiled a development platform for electric tractors in Garching last week. This platform includes a swappable battery system that enables extended ranges and longer operating times. It also provides the opportunity to test electric…

Interview with Prof. Markus Lienkamp on autonomous motor sports

The team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) entered the Autonomous Challenge @CES in Las Vegas as defending champions, seeking to test their limits once again. The team took second place in the race on Friday, employing spectacular overtaking maneuvers in a head-to-head duel with the…

The Indy Autonomous Challenge was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday – a race completely without drivers. Nine teams from universities around the world competed against one another with race cars controlled using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Technical University of Munich (TUM)…

Congratulations to our TUM Autonomous Motorsport team for achieving a solid 2nd Place in the Indy Autonomous Challenge Simulation Race!

In order to make research and teaching at FTM accessible to the public, an official YouTube channel has recently been launched. To kick things off, the entire lecture series Autonomous Driving Software Engineering was made available. In the future, more lecture content and presentations on…

The Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions (M Cube), under the leadership of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), is among the winners of the German government’s Clusters4Future competition. M Cube will be launched in October 2021 and will receive up to 45 million…

Are you interested in an interdisciplinary student project, mobility innovation and hands-on research experience abroad? The European Mobility Venture (euMOVE) will enter its second round in the summer semester of 2021 and offers students from all disciplines the opportunity to track down and…

In the context of the research project aCar Mobility the Chair of Automotive Engineering recently had the opportunity to introduce itself to a delegation of the Ethiopian Consulate General in Frankfurt am Main. Ambassador Bereded Animut and Consul Ubah Mohammed showed great interest in the upcoming…

Would you like to join the Indy Autonomous Challenge Team of the Technical University of Munich with a student research project in the coming semester? The Chair of Automotive Technology and the Chair of Control Engineering at the Technical University of Munich are participating in this first…