German Version| 2009- 11 -05 |
DESIRE final event During a one-day workshop in Stuttgart on November 05, 2009, the project results were presented. |
Program can be found here. |
| 2009- 10 -19 |
Best Paper Award at SICE 2008 The paper Integration of 6D Object Localization and Obstacle Detection for Collision Free Robotic Manipulation written by Grundmann, T. , Xue, Z., Kuehnle, J ., Eidenberger, R., Ruehl, S., Verl, A., Zoellner, R.D., Zoellner, J.M. and Dillmann, R. |
has been awarded as best paper of the 2008 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration on Nagoya at 04.12.08. |
| 2009- 03 -03 |
DESIRE on CeBIT 2009 With four exhibits DESIRE was represented in Hannover from March 03-08, 2009. On the joint booth of the |
federal ministry of education and research (BMBF) in Hall 9, Stand B40 the following exhibits were presented. |
| 2008- 06 -23 |
Schunk received the MM-Award for their Three-Fingers-Grasp-Hand suitable for industrial needs During the AUTOMATICA 2008 trade fair event in München the Three-Fingers-Grasp-Hand (SCHUNK Dextrous Hand SDH-2) was awarded as the most innovative product the MM-Award in the category of |
grasping technologies. Please find detailed information on the homepage of Schunk. |
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| 2007- 07 -26 |
EUnited Robotics to look after service robotics in future The European robotics association EUnited Robotics extended an invitation on 19 June 2007 to companies working in the service robotics industry to attend an event in Brussels entitled "European Service Robotics - Teaming up for a Growth Market". Association president |
Stefan Mueller announced that EUnited Robotics intended to expand its services to cover European service robotics. More information can be found at: www.eu-nited-robotics.net |
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| 2007- 07 -10 |
Special congress on informatics research in Germany at the University of Karlsruhe Between April and July 2007, the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe held a series of lectures under the banner of Special congress on informatics research in Germany on the university's premises. The lectures covered 30 years of research into informatics whereby service robotics and MMI formed the main focus of the 1990s. |
On 10.07.2007, Prof. Rüdiger Dillmann held a guest lecture on the subject of informatics research from 2000 to 2006 during which DESIRE was also presented. The basic lectures were held by former secretary, Prof. Bernd Reuse. The lectures will be published in a special volume due out in October 2007. Flyer for the special congress on informatics research |
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| 2007- 06 -12 |
International robot award goes to Martin Hägele On 13 June 2007, Martin Hägele, Head of the Robot Systems department at Fraunhofer IPA in Stuttgart, was awarded the internationally acclaimed "Joseph Engelberg Award" at the International Robotic Symposium that took place at the same time as the International Robots and Vision Show and Conference was held in Rosemont (Chicago). |
Following Prof. Warnecke and Prof. Schraft, Martin Hägeleis the third member of Fraunhofer IPA to receive the accolade. The award was given in recognition of Martin Hägele's, outstanding research achievements which have attracted attention not only in Germany but throughout the world of robotics. The other recipients of the Engelberg Award within the DESIRE project are:
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