2013-05-13
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

2013-05-01
Issue 5/2013: Interview with Prof. von Stryk in Technische Rundschau (Swiss industrial magazine)

2013-04-30
May 7-9, 2013, Karlsruhe: Robots BioRob and BioBiped on display at IEEE ICRA 2013

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

2013-03-15
March 2013: RSS2013 Workshop Towards Active Lower Limb Prosthetic Systems: Design Issues and Solutions accepted

2013-02-15
March 11-14, 2013: 6th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines takes place in Darmstadt

2013-02-01
March 9, 2013, Zurich: Robots BioRob and BioBiped appear at Robots on Tour

2013-01-09
Jan 9, 2013: High-Tech Gründerfonds and Dr. Schulze Consulting & Holding GmbH participate in seed financing of spin-off BioRob GmbH.

2012-12-14
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.

2012-10-15
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

2012-08-27
Aug. 20, 2012: BioRob robot arm will be displayed at the Heinz-Nixdorf-Museumsforum, reports by MM, Produktion (in German)

2012-08-03
3.8.2012: TV station SAT.1 reports on the search and rescue robots of Team Hector (in German)

2012-07-09
July 9, 2012: In the time between July 9 and July 27, 2012 the opening hours of the secretary`s office are different (see here).

2012-07-04
July 4, 2012: Congratulations to Thomas Lens to his successful PhD defense!

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)

2012-06-17
June 18-23, Mexico City: Darmstadt Dribblers and Team Hector compete at the 16. RoboCup World Championship: DD Facebook, Twitter, Results, Hector Facebook, Twitter, Results

2012-06-15
June 15, 2012: Graduate School Computational Engineering again successful in national excellence initiative

2012-06-05
June 6, 2012, 11:30am: Darmstadt Dribblers appear in the Program with the Mouse (Mouse TV) on channels KIKA and ARD (video)

2012-03-27
03/29-01/04/2012, Magdeburg: Darmstadt Dribblers and Team Hector compete at the 11. RoboCup German Open: DD on Twitter and Facebook, Hector on Twitter and Facebook

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

2011-10-01
Oct 2011: German magazine Der Spezialist reports on robots of the SIM group.

2011-08-13
All sim server are avaible again !!

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

2011-07-26
August 2011: BioBiped1 robot appears in the National Geographic Magazine

2011-07-08
July 8, 2011: IEEE Spectrum`s Automaton Blog reports on Darmstadt Dribblers preparations for throw-in and double pass challenge for RoboCup 2011 in Istanbul.

2011-05-01
May 9, 2011: The therapy robot "Paro", guest lecture by Dr. Takanori Shibata (Building S2|02, Room C105, see calendar of events).

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

2011-04-07
2011/04/07: Interview with Prof. von Stryk in Bild der Wissenschaft (German science magazine)

2011-04-06
April 6, 2011: IEEE Spectrum`s Automaton Blog reports on Darmstadt Dribblers at RoboCup GermanOpen 2011.

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.

2011-01-20
Jan 19, 2011: Hyperraum.TV reports about Darmstadt Dribblers (in German)

2010-11-30
Spin-off company BioRob GmbH founded! (Press announcement in German)

2010-11-19
Congratulations to Dirk Thomas to his successful PhD defense!

2010-10-28
BioBiped is jogging! Project web page and YouTube video channel online

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

2010-10-06
Nov 15-18, 2010: SIMPAR2010 program online & registration open

2010-09-22
Sept 2010: IEEE Member Benefits Bulletin features Darmstadt Dribblers in Robots Play Soccer on ieee.tv

2010-09-19
CfP SIMPAR Workshop on Biomechanical Simulation of Humans and Bio-Inspired Humanoids

2010-08-20
2010/08/20: heise online reports on the DFG project BioBipedRobot jointly conducted with Univ. Jena (in German)

2010-08-10
Server migration took place on Aug. 10, 2010. Please report any occuring problems to Mrs. Schnitt and Mrs. Storch.

2010-07-20
July 19, 2010: IEEE Spectrum reports on Darmstadt Dribblers "most impressive humanoid robots" at RoboCup 2010, see also IEEE Spectrum techalert and here

2010-07-20
Summer School on Cooperative Monitoring in Robot and Sensor Networks, August 23-27, 2010, Blacksburg, VA, USA

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

2010-06-10
Server maintenance on June 16, 2010, 9am-2pm

2010-05-26
June 8-11, 2010, Munich: Presentation of the award winning BioRob - Safe and quickly deployable robot arms for flexible production - at the AUTOMATICA in Hall A2 at Booth 440

2010-04-30
Darmstadt Dribblers featured in RWE Magazine April 2010: Robots conquer daily life (in German)

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

2010-04-13
April 15-18, 2010: Darmstadt Dribblers and Darmstadt Rescue Robot Team Hector compete at RoboCup GermanOpen in Magdeburg

2010-04-13
April 19-23, 2010: Presentation of the award winning BioRob® - Safe and quickly deployable robot arms for flexible production - at the Hannover Messe in hall 2 at booth C45 and booth D34

2010-03-25
Congratulations to Christian Reinl to his successful PhD defense!

2010-01-30
2nd Intl. Conf. on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), Nov. 15-18, 2010, in Darmstadt: Call for Papers

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

2009-11-30
Nov. 30, 2009: Congratulations to Martin Friedmann for highly successful completion of his PhD!

2009-11-01
Nov. 2, 2009: Jürgen Kunz and Stefan Kohlbrecher join the group as scientists in the new BioRobAssist project.

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

2009-09-25
Oct 2, 2009, 10am - 9pm: You are wellcome to visit our robots at Innovative 2009! Entrance is free of charge.

2009-09-12
Sept 12, 2009, Guadalajara: Darmstadt Dribblers win RoboCup Mexican Open

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

2009-07-04
Robotics research inspires crime story author: Premiere reading of Christian Gude's "Homunculus" at karo 5: Humanoid robot of TU Darmstadt under suspicion of murder.

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

2009-04-20
April 20-24,2009, RoboCup German Open and Hannover Messe: excellent results of Darmstadt Dribblers and Rescue Robot Team and presentation of the award-winning, new bionic robot arm

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!

2009-02-23
New Journal of Software Engineering in Robotics (JOSER) founded!

2009-02-20
Our robots appear in the popular TV show Tigerenten Club! Broadcasting dates: Sun, March 1, 2009, 8:55am (channel ARD), Sat Mar 7, 9:15am (SWR), 2:55pm (KI.KA), Sun Mar 8, 6am (rbb).

2008-11-20
National IT Summit: Robot Bruno meets German Chancellor Merkel (pics, Nov 20, 2008)

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

2008-11-07
Video: Robot Bruno plays a one-two with world soccer champion player Nia Künzer (TV, RTL Hessen, Nov 6, 2008)

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

2008-11-01
The research group presents innovative robotic systems including autonomous humanoid robots, the new four-legged robot and the new bio-inspired robotic arm at the iTEC08 conference, Nov 6-7, 2008.

2008-08-01
Aug. 1, 5:30pm on TV Channel Sat.1: Report on the RoboCup world championship title of the Dribbling Dackels within the GermanTeam

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

2008-07-06
Darmstadt Dribblers on TV in Service aktuell: Wissen from July 8-12, 2008, in channel ARD digital EinsPlus.

2008-06-01
June 10-13, 2008, Munich, Automatica: Our new BioRob is presented in hall B2, stand 501C.

2008-05-08
Summer School on Monitoring and Coordination Across Networked Autonomous Entities, August 18-22, 2008, at Castle Ebernburg

2008-05-01
National Geographic Deutschland reports in its May 2008 issue on biomimetic technologies. A recent photo of our BioRob was selected to represent projects in Germany.

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.

2008-01-13
Darmstadt Dribblers humanoid robots on TV channel 3Sat on Jan. 24, 2008, 9pm, program delta: intelligent robots (in German)

2007-12-31
1st International Conference on SIMULATION, MODELING, and PROGRAMMING for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (SIMPAR) Nov 3-7, 2008, Venice, Italy

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

2007-11-13
Our autonomous, soccer playing, humanoid robots Bruno and Jan are performing from Nov 25 - 28 for the BMBF at the Soccerex 2007 in South Afrika (cf. TV3 NZ). Our striker Bruno 2 performs at an event of Discovery Channel in London on Nov 27-28.

2007-10-23
Our Lara, the first humanoid robot of the world which is powered by artifical SMA muscles is presented in the traveling exhibition expedition materia of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

2007-10-19
Excellence initiative of the German Federal and State Governments: the graduate school Computational Engineering has been approved on Oct 19, 2007, with participation of the SIM research group.

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

2007-09-20
Humanoid robots Bruno and Lara of the Darmstadt Dribblers on TV, channel HR, Dossier: Körper, Sept. 27, 2007.

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)

2007-07-01
We have developed a new four-legged robot as an open and modular standard platform for research and education.

2007-06-01
The lecture notes of the course "Robotics 1" haven been rated as the best of all courses in the wintersemester 2006/7.

2007-03-19
April 16-21, 2007: Darmstadt Dribblers and Dribbling Dackels (with GermanTeam) compete at the European Championship of the RoboCup German Open in Hannover.

2007-01-26
New Research Training Group (PhD program) opened on Feb. 2, 2007

2007-01-01
The smarter robots gives in (in German): New cooperative BMBF project BioRob has started.

2006-12-01
Humanoid Soccer Robots Workshop of 2006 IEEE-RAS Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots: Proceedings online available

2006-11-06
Interdisciplinary College at Gönne "Embodied Minds", March 9-16, 2007

2006-06-30
July 1 - Dec. 3, Gotha, Museum of Nature: Bionics - From the primary saur to a walking robot: presents among others our first generation of autonomous humanoid robots, Mr. DD and Mr. DD Jr.1.

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.

2006-03-20
31.3.-2.4. Magdeburg: Training camp of the DFG supported RoboCup teams including DD & DDD

2006-03-18
Autonomous, legged robots of the Darmstadt Dribblers & Dribbling Dackels on TV channel HR in Flowmotion Roadking on Mar 20, 3:45am; Mar 29, 2:25am; Apr 7, 3:50am. And on channel 3sat neues on Apr 1, 5pm; Apr 3, 7am & 9:45am. And on ZDF Apr 13, 1pm (Mittagsmagazin, video) , May 5 (heute, video), May 30 (heute, video), June 9 (heute, video), June 11 (DW-TV, video), visual presentation of Team Darmstadt (ZDF Mediathek, June 14).

2006-03-01
RoboCup 2006, June 14-18: Darmstadt Dribblers & Dribbling Dackels at the robot soccer world championship in Bremen (cf. reports from RoboCup 2006 at robocup.zdf.de or from 2005).

2005-11-03
New course on optimization of static and dynamic systems starts!

2005-11-02
International Workshop on Discrete-Continuous Optimization and Optimal Control, Dec. 15-16, 2005

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

2005-07-11
The German science magazine Wissenschaft Online reports in its dossier on robotics in detail about the Darmstadt Dribblers and the Dribbling Dackels.

2005-05-27
The classes on Robotics 1 and "Robotics 0" have been rated in the student's evaluation of the winter semester 2004/5 in several categories among the top 3 of all classes of the department. [More ...]

2005-05-23
The new SIM-Websites are online!

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

2004-05-10
New Address
We have moved to building S2/02, floor 2, part D.
Pleas not our new address
Hochschulstr. 10
64289 Darmstadt, Germany