Robotics award
Gecko gripper wins 'Robotics Award 2019'
First place in the Robotics Award 2019 went to OnRobot from Odense, Denmark. It entered the competition with a new type of gripping technology for lightweight robots. Computer&AUTOMATION lists the three finalists for the Robotics Award.
Enrico Krog Iversen (left) and Björn Milsch (right) from the company OnRobot accepted the 'Robotics Award 2019', which is endowed with 10,000 euros. They received the prize for ...
© German Trade FairEvery year, Deutsche Messe, organizer of the Hannover Messe, presents the 'Robotics Award' to products, projects and technological innovations that contribute to robot-based solutions in the field of industrial automation / mobile robots or autonomous systems. The condition for participation is that the submission is presented to the public for the first time at the 'Robotics Award' or that it is a significant further development. The jury will also make sure that the solution is at least market-ready, or even better, industrially tested and is considered particularly advanced.
2nd place in the 'Robotics Award 2019': The charging assistant for electric cars - the result of a joint project between the companies FORWARDttc and Kuka.
© FORWARDttc, KukaThe 'Gecko Gripper' gripping technology, which won the 'Robotics Award 2019', uses an adhesive technology that comes from nature: the gecko. Millions of tiny hairs develop van der Waals forces on contact with an object, which in turn create adhesion and shear adhesion. The effect: the gripper holds objects without requiring any further force or energy. The gripping process can be released by slightly tilting the holding surfaces.
3rd place in the 'Robotics Award 2019': The 'ETAROB' field robot from the 'MASKOR' team at Aachen University of Applied Sciences.
© Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Arnd GottschalkA joint project by the companies FORWARDttc and Kuka took second place in the Robotics Award 2019. This is a cost-effective charging assistant for electric cars in private and commercial use. The fully automatic charging process can be controlled by remote control or app and, thanks to its compatibility with various charging capacities and charging systems, is suitable for all electric vehicles in the passenger car sector. The charging process can also be transferred to new fuels such as hydrogen.
Third place this year went to 'MASKOR': The 'Institute for Mobile Autonomous Systems and Cognitive Robotics' at Aachen University of Applied Sciences competed with the autonomous field robot 'ETAROB'. This robot specializes in efficient weed control in various vegetable crops. Unlike other solutions on the market, the robot can navigate freely in an unstructured environment, avoid obstacles and remove weeds and their roots from the ground.
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