World's largest humanoid robot training center to launch in Germany

Germany is set to launch the world’s largest humanoid robot training center, the TUM RoboGym, a 25,000-square-foot facility near Munich Airport developed through a collaboration between the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and NEURA Robotics. With a nearly USD 20 million investment, including USD 12.8 million from NEURA Robotics, the center aims to train hundreds of AI-powered humanoid robots to perform everyday tasks by having human trainers teach them skills such as folding boxes, assembling components, and object manipulation. The initiative is co-led by TUM professors Achim Lilienthal and Lorenzo Masia, who seek to accelerate advancements in humanoid robotics and embodied artificial intelligence (AI). A key challenge the RoboGym addresses is the scarcity of high-quality, real-world training data for embodied AI, which cannot rely on vast online datasets like language models do. Unlike simulations or limited web videos, the RoboGym will generate extensive physical interaction data by enabling robots to learn directly from humans