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... was won by the team from Niedersächsische Technische Hochschule (NTH) in Germany. Their application demonstrated the self-organizing transport of components in an Industry 4.0 scenario. Each component knows the production steps required for its processing, which can be divided among several mobile robots. The NTH students and lecturers worked on various technologies for this, for example laser-based navigation, image processing, manipulation and decentralized planning. 3rd place ...