Intelligent Robotics in Munich
Over the last 50 years research teams in the greater Munich area have been contribution to technical breakthroughs by developing robot hardware platforms and software solutions developments:
1973
1983
The first industrial-suited and standardized grippers from SCHUNK © assemblymag.com
1988-1993
First Robots in Space, ROTEX Experiment on D2 Space Shuttle Mission, (Prof. Hirzinger), © DLR
1992
The first Autonomous Car on the road (Prof. Dickmanns) Universität der Bundeswehr Munich
1993
The six-legged MAX machine (1993) was developed by the Chair of Applied Mechanics (Prof. F. Pfeiffer) at TUM
1994
FZI introduces LAURON I, in the picture: LAURON IVc © FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe
1995
DLR Light Weight Robot, Pictures: on the left: DLR LWR I 1995; on the right: DLR LWR III 2003 © DLR
1997
Left: “Long Short-Term Memory” (Prof. Schmidhuber) © J. Schmidhuber; https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/blog.html
Right: Rhino, ©Deutsches Museum / Eric Lichtenscheidt
1998
Left: Minerva, ©Thrun et al. 1999
Right: The DLR Robot Hand
2000
KIT introduces ARMAR, on the left ARMAR I, right ARMAR II from 2002 © KIT
2001
DLR HAnd II
2003
Humanoid Johnnie (Prof. Pfeiffer, Prof. Schmid), © Chair of Applied Mechanics, Technical University of Munich
2005
Probabilistic Robotics © Wolfram Burgard; aleksandarlittlewolf, Freepik
2007
ASCENDING Technologies now part of INTEL, the only German Company developing UAV’s © Ascending Techn.
2008
Fundamentals for Point Cloud Library are introduced by Prof. Beetz and Team © pointclouds.org
2014
with TORU Magazino sets new standards in automation and logistics ©
2017
First certified tactile robot by Franka Emika © Franka Emika
2018
Direct Sparse Odometry: world’s most accurate and robust realtime visual SLAM was developed by Prof. Daniel Cremers.
