Bereits zum achten Mal nimmt das Institut Robotik und Mechatronik an der Fachmesse Automatica teil. Die Automatica findet vom 19. bis 22. Juni in München statt.
In future, robot assistants will be able to support people at home or in care facilities if the tasks associated with everyday life become too much of a burden. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) working on the SMiLE project have developed technologies that provide efficient daily assistance to people requiring care or with special needs. The project was presented to the Bavarian State Minister of Economic Affairs, Energy and Technology, Franz Josef Pschierer, and the general public on 7 and 8 May in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Vom 13. bis 15. März 2018 fand in Tampere, Finnland, das diesjährige European Robotics Forum statt. Im Rahmen der Konferenz wurden Dr. Daniel Leidner und Dr. Johannes Englsberger für ihre erfolgreich abgeschlossenen Dissertationen jeweils mit dem Georges Giralt PhD-Award ausgezeichnet.
The operator orbits Earth at an altitude of 400 kilometres, while the assistant works on the ground. During the 'SUPVIS Justin' experiment, those who send and receive commands conduct a long-distance relationship. Aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on 2 March 2018, United States astronaut Scott Tingle selected the required commands on a tablet, while the robot Justin of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) performed the necessary work on a solar panel in a terrestrial laboratory in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, as instructed.
Am 6. Februar 2018 informierten sich zwei Museumspädagogen des Nürnberger Besucherzentrums Bionicum bei einem Besuch des Instituts für Robotik und Mechatronik über das Thema Bionik und ihren Einfluss auf die Robotik.
Am 29. November 2017 vergab der deutsche Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin den Deutschen Zukunftspreis an FRANKA EMIKA.
Head of the Institute: Prof. Dr. Alin Albu-Schäffer
The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics develops a wide array of robots to enable humans to interact more safely and efficiently with their surrounding environments. The robots are designed to act in surroundings inaccessible or dangerous to humans as well as to support humans in everyday life and work.
Our robots mimic and extend upon the manipulation and locomotion capabilities of humans on a functional level. In a more general sense, they perform any tasks of locomotion and interaction with the environment with a wide range of autonomy to suit different tasks. As a key aspect for the usability of robots, we address the interfaces to humans through multimodal human-robot interaction.