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Hanover Fair 2016The nominees for the Hermes Award

Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka, Federal Minister of Education and Research, will announce the winner of the Hermes Award 2016 on April 24 following the opening ceremony of the Hannover Messe. The jury has now nominated the five finalists.

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Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster, Chairman of the Hermes Award jury and Director of DFKI, during his laudatory speech
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"Our jury unanimously selected the Galaxie gearbox from Wittenstein as the winner because it uses the logarithmic spiral - as known in nature in snail shells, for example - a fundamentally new function for gear teeth to offer a new type of high-performance drive system without gears with integrated sensors and networking," said Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster, chairman of the jury and head of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
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