Neuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab

Congratulations ...

... to Dr.-Ing. Michael Volkhardt, who defended his PhD thesis "Ein Beitrag zur robusten Nutzerwahrnehmung auf realwelttauglichen, häuslichen Assistenzrobotern " on October 16, 2018

Prominent visit

On his summer tour Bodo Ramelow, Prime Minister of Thuringia, visited our Lab and informed himself about the various research projects.

SYMPARTNER final project presentation

Senior participant of long-term user study with socially assistive robots in 20 private homes. The research was part of the successfull SYMPARTNER (www.sympartner.de) project, running from 4/2015 till 6/2018

New socially assistive robot of the SYMPARTNER project (www.sympartner.de) at the the 3rd Future Congress "Human-Machine-Interaction" in the former plenary hall of the German federal parliament in Bonn on 26/27 June 2017.

Neuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab

Congratulations ...

... to Prof. Horst-Michael Gross and Dr. Klaus Debes, who were honoured with the teaching award of the TU Ilmenau in recognition of their achievements in academic teaching

Long Night of Technology - Glanzlichter 2016

Visitors of all ages tested their skills at the "Robo Racing" with Tweety during the Long Night of Technology (Foto: ari)

Final project presentation

ROREAS (Robotic Rehabilitation Assistant) for walking and orientation exercising in self-training during clinical stroke follow-up care during its final project presentation on 11 May 2016 in Erfurt.

Filming event ...

... with an ARTE film crew in the AWO senior residence "Am Krämpferufer" in Erfurt on 26 September 2014.

Serroga closing event

Our elderly partners from the AWO senior residence Erfurt proudly present their "Robot Tester" certificates, given to them in recognition of their participation as test users (including one final full day of robot service in their homes) for the project Serroga.

SLAM in Home Environments with NDT Maps

For obvious reasons, we also call these maps "Smartie-maps". Thanks to our adaptive resolution mapping, filigrane structures like the rocking chair shown in the forground of the above image can be modelled.

Capacitive Touch Sensors for manual motion control

The red areas show the areas of capacitive touch sensors mounted to the inside of the plastic cover of the Scitos G3 Robot. These are used for assisted local motion control since pushing the robot passively is not possible.