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                    Robutler (2002–2005)

                    In the aging societies of the industrialized world, there will be an increasing demand for intelligent machines performing services in interaction or collaboration with humans. These machines will share with us our living environment and will have to perform everyday tasks in human-like manners. As a consequence, in the field of service robotics, systems are needed that can handle everyday objects in unconstraint environments, in much the same way as they are handled by humans.

                    Ball Catcher (2004)

                    The DLR Robotic Ballcatcher was developed to demonstrate the dynamical capabilities of the DLR light-weight arm and hand. The robot can catch a ball, that is thrown onto the robot by a benevolent thrower. The ball is observed by a large baseline stereo camera, comparing each image to a slowly adapting reference image.

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