EURON/EUnited Robotics Technology Transfer Award

Fourth edition

The EURON/EUnited Robotics Technology Transfer Award was presented for the fourth time on 28th March 2007 at EURON's annual meeting in Chania.

Press release. This year we received 12 very high quality applications which were perfect examples of technology transfer — which we define as the process of converting scientific findings from research laboratories into useful products by the commercial sector.

From the 12 applications a jury consisting of both EURON and EUnited Robotics members selected 5 finalists.

These finalists presented their applications to the EURON community. The jury had a hard time awarding the awards (trophies, diplomas and cash prize) to the winners as the presentations were generally high class.

CONGRATULATIONS to everyone who entered for your extremely high quality work.

Results

Two first prizes were awarded:


	•	Ulrich Hagn (DLR), Tobias Ortmaier (KUKA Roboter, DLR), Richard Wohlgemuth (Brainlab) for KineMedic: a generic, kinematic redundant, light-weight, and torque-controlled robot developed for medical interventions.
	•	Hong Liu, Peter Meusel, Gerd Hirzinger (all of DLR) for the SAH hand (featured coincidentally as "Robot of the Week" on this site in week 11). The Schunk Anthropomorphic Hand (SAH) is a joint development study of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). The goal is to use mainly industrial standard components and common technologies to produce a hand useable in small-scale production.

Two third prizes were also awarded:


	•	Heinz Woern (University of Karlsruhe), Karsten Weiss (Weiss Robotics), Matthias Haag, Andreas Hoch, Florian Simons (all of the company Schunk) for the first industrially suitable robot hand with a tactile sensor system integrated. The Schunk Dextrous Hand (SDH) is characterised by tactile sensors on the interior of each phalanx, intelligent control integrated in the gripper body and the rapid changing of the entire device.
	•	Jocelyne Troccaz and Sandrine Voros (TIMC-IMAG Laboratory) for their Light Endoscope Holder Robot (LER). The LER (including control and tracking) is designed for digestive, urologic and gynaecologic surgeons and has been recently industrialized by EndoControl.

From left to right:
Jon Azpiazu (Fatronik), Hong Lui (DLR), Matthias Haag (Schunk), Tobias Ortmaier (KUKA), Sandrine Voros (TIMC-IMAG), Karsten Weiss (Uni Karlsruhe)

Details of the first, second and third Technology Transfer Award Winners.

Getting Involved

We hope that you will get involved in many of EURON's activities and encourage others to do so as well.

Attend Meetings

Attending meetings is an excellent way of making contacts and friends within the community. The Annual Meetings are the major instrument for this purpose.

Communicate

A lot of things are happening all the time in the European robotics community: conferences and workshops are being organised, projects are starting, job offers are announced, etc. The EURON mailing list is the place-to-be for all your communications around these topics.



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