Space Symposium 2017 in Colorado Springs 12 April 2017 At the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs from April 3 to 6, 2017, representatives of industry, science and policymaking from around the world discussed the current and future developments in global space travel.
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	EE Airbag at the Hannover Messe from April 24 to 28, 2017 27 April 2017 Roman Weitschat and Hannes Höppner won the KUKA Innovation Award 2017 with the airbag for robotic end effectors.
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	HGF-president visits Oberpfaffenhofen 24 August 2016 Due to the visit of Helmholtz-community's president professor Dr. Otmar Wiestler and Mr. John Lewis, a senate comission member of the Helmholtz-community, at the DLR-site in Oberpfaffenhofen, the institute for robotics and mechatronics presented four different research systems
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	Autonomous landing at full speed 18 January 2016 An unmanned, electric, autonomous aircraft travelling at 75 kilometres per hour lands gently on the roof of a moving car. For the first time, researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have successfully demonstrated a technique
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	"Tele-handshake" between ISS and Earth 21 December 2016 A simple gesture of greeting and yet extraordinary: a handshake between an astronaut on the International Space Station and scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
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	The ROboMObil at the IAA 2015 in Frankfurt 9 September 2015 The ROboMObil will be on display at the DEKRA Booth during the press and trade visitor days of the IAA from 14.09-18.09 in hall 8/booth 24. [...]
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	Kontur-2: Two orbits for new experiments 21 August 2015 Early Friday evening, the Kontur-2-team and the cosmonaut on the International Space Station were able to successfully conduct more tests with the Joystick.
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	TORO at the cabinet meeting of the Bavarian state government in St. Quirin 5 August 2015 The cabinet meeting on July 20, 2015 in St. Quirin on Lake Tegernsee focused on the BAYERN DIGITAL work program.
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	Impressions from ILA 2014 30 May 2014 At the Space Pavillon along with the exhibition of TORO, the Lightweight Rover LRU was also on display: On Wednesday, an already existing memorandum of understanding in the field of space robotics has been renewed for another three years.
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	Automatica 2014 30 May 2014 The Robotics and Mechatronics Center (RMC) is also showing new research results and developments at Automatica this year.
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	RoboCup Best Paper Award for Korbinian Schmid and the Multicopter group 8 November 2013 Korbinian Schmid and his colleagues Teodor Tomic, Felix Ruess, Heiko Hirschmüller and Michael Suppa won the RoboCup Best Paper Award for their paper “Stereo Vision-Based Indoor/Outdoor Navigation for Flying Robots” at the 2013 IROS Conference.
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	Panel discussion 3 April 2013 Robots: Man's best friend? Robots have been part of our daily lives for a long time. Who hasn’t thought about purchasing a robotic vacuum cleaner? Industrial robots have also been an integral part of our regular production processes for more than 30 years, even if they are only able to repeat the same actions endlessly.
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	Bundeskanzlerin Merkel with DLR bionics 23 April 2012 Chancellor Angela Merkel viewed the latest results of the DLR’s bionics research at the Hannover Messe. A short report.
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