Neuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab

Prominent visit

Minister Tiefensee visits MetraLabs GmbH on occasion of the Europe Day to be introduced into project ROGER (Foto: Thomas Abe)

Long Night of Technology - Glanzlichter 2019 (1)

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

Long Night of Technology - Glanzlichter 2019 (2)

Numerous visitors followed guide robot SUSE on a scavenger hunt through the Zuse building.(Foto: NIKR)

InnoCON Thuringia 2018

MetraLabs and our Lab took part together with four of our assistive robots in the exhibition of the InnoCON

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

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.