Four Munich-based companies, audEERING, Medineering, Roboception, and Tacterion, were honored with the Bavarian Innovation Award. Three other Bavarian companies also received awards.
The TUM spin-off audEERING is developing an intelligent audio analysis process. The technology uses artificial intelligence to recognize acoustic environments, speaker states, and over 50 human emotions. Applications include the early diagnosis of neurocognitive diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and depression. In the automotive sector, the software analyzes the driver's state in real time. Conditions such as fatigue, intoxication, stress, or aggression can be identified.
The Munich startup Medineering bioffers robotic assistance for ENT surgery to relieve surgeons of physically demanding tasks, allowing them to focus more on tasks that require their individual skills.
Roboceptions was recognized for its rc_visard 3D stereo sensor. This enables robots to generate time- and location-based data in real time. The sensor also equips the systems with stable, seamless, and infrastructure-free navigation.
Tacterion has developed a market-ready sensor solution with Plyon. The basic idea behind the sensors is to use mechanical flexibility to make curved surfaces touch- and pressure-sensitive, thus making human-machine interaction more intuitive. The sensor technology stems from research and development work on the topic of "artificial skin for robots" at the Center for Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen.
Artificial intelligence “made in Bavaria”
Dagmar Schuller, co-founder and CEO of the innovation award-winning audEERING, tells Munich Startup:
"Receiving the Bavarian Innovation Award was extremely important to us. Especially because we know that the competition is fiercest in Bavaria itself. Almost 200 outstanding companies applied. This demonstrates the innovative strength of our state. We were founded as a spin-off of the excellence center of the Technical University of Munich and are particularly proud to contribute to defending Bavaria's leading position with our technology. In our view, the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, together with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Chamber of Crafts and Trades, is sending a clear signal about the importance of artificial intelligence 'made in Bavaria' by awarding the 2018 Innovation Award."
The other three prizes went to AQUAAIR from Augsburg, Formteilbau Schmitt from Gemünden-Adelsberg and GEDA-Dechentreiter from Asbach-Bäumenheim.
