euRobotics is proud to announce this year’s awards winners!
TechTransfer Awards
First prize: W. Burgard (University of Freiburg), P. Pfaff (KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg), C. Sprunk (University of Freiburg) – Flexible Autonomous Navigation for Industrial Shop Floor Applications
Second prize: S. Sander (Deepfield Robotics), F. Rahe (Amazonen Werke H. Dreyer GmbH & Co.KG), A. Ruckelshausen (University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück -BoniRob- Autonomous Mobile Platform for Agricultural Applications
Third Prize: S. Schätzle, B. Weber, T. Hulin (DLR), N. Sporer (SENSODRIVE), VibroTac – Tactile Access to the World
Georges Giralt Phd Award
Awardee: Jörg Stückler (University of Bonn, now at TU Munich) – Efficient Dense Registration, Segmentation, and Modeling Methods for RGB-D Environment Perception
Finalists:
Arash Ajoudani (University of Pisa, now at IIT Genua) – Transferring Human Impedance Regulation Skills to Robots
Pierre Cherelle (VU Brussels) – Development of New Generation Powered Prosthetic Feet with Explosive Motion Characteristics for Push-Off
Oliver Kroemer (TU Darmstadt) – Machine Learning for Robot Grasping and Manipulation
Entrepreneurship Award
First Prize: Tacterion – Michael Strohmayr
Second Prize: Reach Robotics – Silas Adekunle
Third Prize: Q-Bot – Mathew Holloway
Finalists:
Intelligent Ski Service Assistant – Klas Kronander
Probot – Matti Tikanmaki