Projects

Skylight – Skylight - Tethered Micro Rover for safe semi-autonomous exploration of lava tube

Skylight is a concept study about accessing and exploring a lunar skylight. Lunar skylights are holes in the moon surface that most likely are …

APRIL – Multipurpose robotics for mAniPulation of defoRmable materIaLs in manufacturing processes

The APRIL project aims at prototyping low cost and agile market-oriented multipurpose, and easy to repurpose, autonomous dexterous robots; which will …

EurEx-LUNa – EurEx - Persistent under-ice navigation

One important aspect of future missions to ice-covered moons within our solar system is the exploration of the oceans underneath the ice. Based on the …

K4R – Knowledge4Retail

The overall goal of Knowledge4Retail is the development of an open-source platform (K4R platform) for complex AI- and robotics applications in retail. …

TRAILER – Tandem of Rover and Associated Wain for Lunar Extended Roaming

The main objective of the TRAILER project is to develop a compound rover system consisting of (i) an agile and powerful rover, the so-called TRACTOR …

PULSAR (OG8) – PULSAR (OG8)

PULSAR aims to develop key-technologies to enable the autonomous assembly of large structures in space. Similar to industrial applications, the …

RIMA – RIMA - Robotics for Infrastructure Inspection and MAintenance

Inspection and Maintenance (I&M) represents a huge economic activity (450 Bn Euro market) spanning across sectors such as energy, transport, civil …

Mare-IT – Informationstechnologien für maritime Anwendungen

The project Mare-IT focusses on the question, how the information flow can be realized between robotic systems, control stations, systems for …

ROBDEKON – Robotersystem für die Dekontamination in menschenfeindlichen Umgebungen

ROBDEKON stands for "Robot systems for decontamination in hostile environments" and is dedicated to research in the field of autonomous or …

JIRo – Joint Inspection Robot

The project JIRo is a joint venture of Shell Brasil and the Brazilian Institute for Robotics (BIR), which is a cooperation between the Brazilian …