June 8, 2020

ICRA Awards for RM employees

Employees of the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics received awards at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020, which will be held virtually from May 31 to August 31, 2020.

Christian Ott, Johannes Englsberger, Maximo Roa, George Mesesan and Bernd Henze received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Best Paper Award for the COMANOID EU project:

Abderrahmane Kheddar, Stéphane Caron, Pierre Gergondet, Andrew Comport, Arnaud Tanguy, Christian Ott, Bernd Henze, George Mesesan, Johannes Englsberger, Máximo A. Roa, Pierre-Brice Wieber, François Chaumette, Fabien Spindler, Giuseppe Oriolo, Leonardo Lanari, Adrien Escande, Kevin Chappellet, Fumio Kanehiro, and Patrice Rabaté

"Humanoid Robots in Aircraft Manufacturing: The Airbus Use Cases"
vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 30-45, December 2019

Alexander Dietrich received the Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding work as Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).  

Cosimo della Santina received the "Best Reviewers Award for ICRA" for his contributions as a reviewer.

Institute Director Prof. Alin Albu-Schäffer said: "The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is the flagship conference of the robotics community. The awards regularly received at this conference are a testimony to the excellence of research at our institute. I congratulate this year's winners most sincerely!"

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