OTH Regensburg is participating in a new Bavarian AI initiative to build a trustworthy AI platform "made in Bavaria." The focus is on key future fields such as health and robotics.

The university's contribution is through the research project "MusteR-FM," led by Prof. Dr. Christoph Palm. The team is working with partners from the Technical University of Munich and the University Hospital Augsburg on AI systems for minimally invasive and endoscopic operations.

The goal is the development of a basic AI model that can analyze and understand surgical procedures. For this purpose, the AI is trained with video recordings from operations and learns to recognize different phases of a procedure – such as preparation, cutting, or sewing.

Research project aims to enable intelligent assistance systems for surgical interventions

In the long term, intelligent assistance systems are to emerge from this, which can support medical staff in the operating room, provide information, or predict the next step of an intervention.

The project combines research in the fields of medicine and robotics and relies on powerful AI infrastructures. The necessary computing power is being built at the Regional Computing Center Erlangen, which is expected to have around 1,400 high-performance processors in the future.

Another focus is on open source: The developed technologies are to be freely accessible and serve as a basis for their own applications by companies and research institutions.

The project officially starts in May 2026 and is initially planned for 15 months.