Simulation, Systems Optimization and Robotics Group

May 14, 2013: Team ViGIR (SIM Group with TORC Robotics and Virginia Tech) successfully qualified for Virtual DARPA Robotics Challenge, the international competition for robot technologies to conduct humanitarian, disaster relief

Issue 5/2013: Interview with Prof. von Stryk in Technische Rundschau (Swiss industrial magazine)

May 7-9, 2013, Karlsruhe: Robots BioRob and BioBiped on display at IEEE ICRA 2013

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

March 2013: RSS2013 Workshop Towards Active Lower Limb Prosthetic Systems: Design Issues and Solutions accepted

March 11-14, 2013: 6th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines takes place in Darmstadt

March 9, 2013, Zurich: Robots BioRob and BioBiped appear at Robots on Tour

Jan 9, 2013: High-Tech Gründerfonds and Dr. Schulze Consulting & Holding GmbH participate in seed financing of spin-off BioRob GmbH.

Dec. 14, 2012: Autonomous humanoid soccer robot Bruno of the Darmstadt Dribblers is displayed at the exhibition "Robot. Machine and Human?" at the Technisches Museum, Vienna.

Oct. 2012: Team ViGIR (SIM Group with TORC Robotics and Virginia Tech) was selected for Track B of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, the international competition for robot technologies to conduct humanitarian, disaster relief

Aug. 20, 2012: BioRob robot arm will be displayed at the Heinz-Nixdorf-Museumsforum, reports by MM, Produktion (in German)

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)

June 6, 2012, 11:30am: Darmstadt Dribblers appear in the Program with the Mouse (Mouse TV) on channels KIKA and ARD (video)