In the EU funded project CoRob-X, DFKI together with 7 partners from 5 EU member states developed a cooperative robot team to investigate hard-to-reach places on planetary surfaces, such as lava tubes on the moon. In January and February 2023, we demonstrated the feasibility of the CoRob-X concept i…

Natural muscle is a masterpiece of evolution enabling biological organisms to achieve levels of agility, dexterity, and adaptability yet unmatched by the most advanced, state-of-the-art robotic systems. The excellent all-round performance of muscle has inspired the pursuit of an artificial equivalen…

Uncanny Valley, proposed by Japanese robotics expert Masahiro Mori (1970), is a controversial effect related to the design and likeability of robots. According to Mori, as similarity to humans increases, so should the perceived likeability and thus acceptance of robots. However, this is not consiste…

Dr. Thamer is an entrepreneur, researcher, designer, and now a CEO of a small enterprise born and raised in Bremen, Cellumation GmbH.  The company develops and builds flexible and intelligent conveyor technology for production & logistics. They reimagine and optimize material flow systems f…

New research challenges in robotics, which arise from attempts to get robots out of isolated environments into human spaces with a close human-robot interaction, demand new methods to acquire a deeper understanding of the human behavior and intentions. Especially in Learning from Demonstration (LfD)…

Abstract: Assistive robotic manipulators have the potential to support individuals with impairments to regain some of their independence in performing Activities of Daily Living. For individuals with impairments, interaction with assistive robotic manipulators is a very challenging task. In this ta…

The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Honduras expands ∼210,000 km2 and remains largely unexplored. After the Global Deep-Sea Capacity Assessment defined a baseline of the technical and human capacity for deep-sea exploration and research worldwide in 2022, it stated that Central America is the sub-r…

The controlled and targeted delivery of pharmaceutical agents and therapies are major challenges in pharmacology and medicine. To date pharmaceutical agents are given systemically undermining their effectiveness and leading to side- and off-target effects. Even though passive targeting by the use of…

AbstractThe fragmentation of the global data domain is dramatically increasing being one of the major reasons for the 80% data wrangling we need to do in each data driven project. We are wasting huge amounts of funds due to all the inefficiencies in research and industry and the pressure towards con…