2013-04-29
April 28, 2013, Magdeburg: Hector SLAM receives first HARTING Open-Source Award

2013-04-28
April 28, 2013, Magdeburg, RoboCup GermanOpen: Search and rescue robot team Hector wins Rescue Robot League for the third time in a row as well as the Best in Class Autonomy Award

2012-07-03
July 3, 2012: Master Thesis of Jérôme Kirchhoff awarded prize of Darmstadt Foundation for Technology Transfer.

2012-06-24
June 18-23, RoboCup, Mexico City: Team Hector wins Best in Class Autonomy Award, 2nd overall place and Innovation Award in Rescue Robot League, Darmstadt Dribblers win 3rd place in Humanoid KidSize League (press announcement in German)

2011-11-08
Nov 8, 2011: Robotic arm BioRob selected as landmark in the nation-wide competition Land of Ideas.

2011-07-26
July 10, 2011, RoboCup, Istanbul: Darmstadt Dribblers win 1st place in technical challenge and 3rd place (out of 24) in soccer games, Team Hector ranked 2nd (out of 17) in Best in Class Autonomy Category, Reports, Videos

2011-04-15
Feb. 2011: Best Paper Award for Karen Petersen at the 4th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI)

2011-04-03
2011/04/03, RoboCup GermanOpen 2011: Team Hector wins RoboCup Rescue League and Best in Class Autonomy Award; Darmstadt Dribblers win Humanoid KidSize League making TU Darmstadt the most successful university in this event.

2011-02-01
Feb 1, 2011: The BioRob GmbH was selected as a landmark in the "Land of Ideas" and will be presented on Nov 8, 2011.

2010-10-26
2010/10/26: Juliane Kuhn receives Datenlotsen Award for her thesis

2010-06-24
June 24, 2010, Singapore: Autonomous humanoid robots of the Darmstadt Dribblers impressively defend their RoboCup world champion title against 23 international teams: 8 wins in 8 games, 74:2 goal difference, reports, videos, twitter

2010-04-19
April 18, 2010: Darmstadt Rescue Robot Team Hector wins 2nd place at RoboCup GermanOpen; radio report (Deutschlandfunk) (in German)

2010-01-16
Dec. 2009, IEEE ROBIO, Guilin: Paper of Kati Radkhah and Stefan Kurowski Finalist for Best Paper in Biomimetics

2009-10-12
Oct 3, 2009: Excellent 3rd place for Darmstadt Rescue Robot Team as newcomer within 12 European teams at SICK Robot Day.

2009-09-07
Sept 7, 2009, Kassel: BioRob robot arm project receives Hessian University-SME cooperation award (in German)

2009-07-05
July 5, 2009, Graz, Austria: Autonomous, humanoid robots of the Darmstadt Dribblers blew away all opponents at RoboCup: World Champion (8 wins in 8 games, 78:3 goal difference), Louis Vuitton Best Humanoid Award (as first non Japanese team), 1. Place Technical Challenge: reports, videos

2009-05-14
Kati Radkhah has been awarded the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2009.

2009-04-08
April 5, 2009: Darmstadt Dribblers win RoboCup Iran Open through 7:3 in the final against FUmanoid!

2009-04-08
April 7, 2009, Leuven: BioRob robot arm project wins 1st price of the prestigeous European EURON/EUROP Robotics Technology Transfer Award!

2008-11-08
3rd place for the poster of Sebastian Klug at the Bionik Konkress of GTBB in Bremen

2008-11-07
Best Paper Award for Martin Friedmann and Karen Petersen at 1st International Conference on SIMULATION, MODELING, and PROGRAMMING for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (SIMPAR) Nov 3-7, 2008, Venice, Italy

2008-07-25
RoboCup 2008 in China: Darmstadt Dribbling Dackels as GermanTeam world champion of the Four-Legged Robot League after 5:0 win in the final game! Darmstadt Dribblers reach excellent 2. place out of 24 teams at the Humanoid Robot Technical Challenge.

2008-07-21
Werner von Siemens Excellence Award 2008 for the diploma thesis of Kati Radkhah

2008-04-11
April 2008, RoboCup German Open and Hannover Messe: 1. place for Dribbling Dackels (as GermanTeam), 3. place for Darmstadt Dribblers; exhibition of our new bionic robot arm and our new autonomous four-legged robot at the thematic stand Bionics.

2007-12-06
The founding idea "New Generation of Robots" has been awarded the 2nd place at the UniTechSpin founding competition 2007.

2007-09-21
Best Poster Presentation Award for Thomas Hemker at the Czech-French-German Conference on Optimization

2007-07-08
RoboCup 2007: GermanTeam takes 1st place in Technical Challenge, Darmstadt Dribblers lost very tight and dramatic quarter final vs. the later champion (reports and videos)

2006-06-21
Resumee (with many videos!) of the Darmstadt Dribblers (autonomous humanoid robots) at RoboCup 2006: a 2nd and two 3rd places as well as 27 scored goals plus a plentitude of innovations (cf. heise online & Technology Review (in German)).

2006-05-05
Darmstadt Dribblers & Hajime Team win Best Humanoid Robot Price at the RoboCup Japan Open 2006, May 4-6.

2006-04-03
Dribbling Dackels at the RoboCup Dutch Open, April 7-9: "only" 3rd place in soccer games but 1st place in the technical challenge for the overall best team.

2005-07-16
RoboCup: GermanTeam World Champion 2005 after dramatic penalty-kick shoot-out!
More information, pictures and links are available here

2004-07-05
RoboCup 2004 in Lisabon:
Darmstadt Dribbling Dackels with German Team are World Champion 2004!

April 28, 2013, Magdeburg: Hector SLAM receives first HARTING Open-Source Award

April 28, 2013, Magdeburg, RoboCup GermanOpen: Search and rescue robot team Hector wins Rescue Robot League for the third time in a row as well as the Best in Class Autonomy Award

Resumee (with many videos!) of the Darmstadt Dribblers (autonomous humanoid robots) at RoboCup 2006: a 2nd and two 3rd places as well as 27 scored goals plus a plentitude of innovations (cf. heise online & Technology Review (in German)).

Darmstadt Dribblers & Hajime Team win Best Humanoid Robot Price at the RoboCup Japan Open 2006, May 4-6.