Our team NimbRo was ranked first in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Semifinals, which took place in September 2021 in Miami, Florida. [Press Release]
The new German-French Project "Learn2Grasp: Learning Human-like Interactive
Grasping based on Visual and Haptic Feedback" is funded by BMBF and ANR. [Press Relase]
The new project "Transferzentrum RimA – Roboter im Alltag (Robots in Everyday Life)" is funded by BMBF. Our subproject focusses on benchmarking of assistance robots in everydeay environments. [Press Release]
Diego Rodriguez successfully defended his PhD thesis "Learning Grasping and Walking Motion Generation for Humanoid Robots"
Two new projects "Semantic Video Prediction (P6)" and "Anticipative Human-Robot Collaboration (P8)" are funded as part of the second phase of the DFG research unit FOR 2535 Anticipating Human Behavior.
The paper Marius Beul, Simon Bultmann, Andre Rochow, Radu Alexandru
Rosu,
Daniel Schleich, Malte Splietker, and Sven Behnke: "Visually
Guided Balloon
Popping with an Autonomous MAV at MBZIRC 2020" received the Best
Paper
Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security,
and
Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Philipp Allgeuer successfully defended his PhD thesis "Analytic
Bipedal Walking with Fused Angles and Corrective Actions in the Tilt
Phase Space".
A new project "Collaborative Perception and Prediction with Smart Edge Sensors" is funded by Fraunhofer IAIS.
David Droeschel sucessfully defended his PhD thesis "Efficient Methods for Lidar-based Mapping and Localization".
Our proposal for the Amazon
Research Award
project "Learning Structured Scene Modeling and Physics-Based
Prediction for Manipulation" was
funded.
Our team NimbRo came in second in the Grand Challenge and in the wall-building sub-challenge of the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC), which took place in Abu Dhabi.
Tobias Klamt successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Planning Hybrid Driving-Stepping Locomotion for Ground Robots in Challenging Environments"
The Teaching Award of the Bonn Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has been awarded to Dr. Nils Goerke.
Matthias Nieuwenhuisen successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Planning and Navigation in Dynamic Environments for Mobile Robots and Micro Aerial Vehicles"
The soccer robots of our team NimbRo won all competitions of Humanoid League AdultSize class at RoboCup 2019 in Sydney, Australia: 2 vs. 2 soccer tournament, 2 vs. 2 drop-in games, technical challenges, Best-humanoid Award.
The CENTAURO project was awarded the Ralf-Dahrendorf-Preis by the German Minister of Education and Research (BMBF). BMBF will fund a project to communicate the CENTAURO results to high-school students. [Press release]
(c) Bernd Lammel, Bildkraftwerk
The Google Faculty Research Award project "Collaborative
Perception using Smart Edge Sensors and Cloud-based 4D SLAM" was funded.
Our proposal for the Amazon
Research Award
project "Generalizing Scene Parsing for Cluttered Bin Picking" was
funded.
The final integrated CENTAURO system was evaluated for multiple complex locomotion and manipulation tasks in disaster-response scenarios at the Kerntechnische Hilfsdienst GmbH near Karlsruhe.
A new project to develop autonomous assistance functions for micro aerial vehicles has been granted by BMBF as part of the competence center for rescue robots (DRZ). [More information]
The soccer robots of our team NimbRo won all competitions of Humanoid League AdultSize class at RoboCup 2018 in Montreal, Canada: 1 vs. 1 soccer tournament, 2 vs. 2 drop-in games, technical challenges, Best-humanoid Award.
Our lab moved to the new Computer Science building (Informatikzentrum) on Campus Poppelsdorf.
Our proposal for the Amazon Research Award project "Learning Scene Parsing for Cluttered Bin Picking" was funded.
The first integrated CENTAURO system was evaluated for multiple locomotion and manipulation tasks at the Kerntechnische Hilfsdienst GmbH near Karlsruhe.
The kickoff workshop for the cooperative project "Development of the artificial electronic skin that mimics human skin structure and functions for tactile and kinesthetic feedback in robotic surgery or prosthetic arms" with Korean partners, which is coordinated by the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), took place in Bonn.
The paper Hafez Farazi and Sven Behnke:
"Online Visual Robot Tracking and Identification using Deep LSTM
Networks" received the IROS 2017 RoboCup Best Paper
Award at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots
and Systems in Vancouver, Canada.
The paper Tobias Klamt and Sven Behnke: "Anytime Hybrid
Driving-Stepping Locomotion Planning" was Finalist for the
Best Paper Award on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics.
Our team NimbRo
was very successful at RoboCup
2017 in Nagoya, Japan. Our Humanoid
TeenSize and
AdultSize soccer robots won their tournaments, technical
challenges, drop-in challenge and the RoboCup Design Award. In the Amazon
Robotics Challenge, our team
NimbRo Picking
won the 2nd price in the Pick task and came in second in the Final Stow
and Pick task.
[More information on
the soccer robots] [More
information on the
bin picking robots]
Dirk Holz successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Efficient 3D Segmentation, Registration and Mapping for Mobile Robots".
Our team NimbRo won the Grand Challenge and Challenge 2 in the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC), which was organized by Khalifa University and took place in Abu Dhabi.
The Research Unit FOR 2535 "Anticipating Human Behaviour" will be funded by German Research Foundation (DFG). Six groups of the Bonn Computer Science Institute will together develop methods for modelling and prediction of human behavior and for using the predictions for anticipative human-robot collaboration. In the Autonomous Intelligent Systems group, “Learning Hierarchical Representations for Anticipative Human-Robot Collaboration” will be investigated.
Hannes Schulz successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Learning Object Recognition and Object Class Segmentation with Deep Neural Networks on GPU"
The paper Nicola Krombach, David Droeschel, and Sven Behnke: "Combining Feature-based and Direct Methods for Semi-dense Real-time Stereo Visual Odometry" received the Best Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) in Shanghai, China.
Our team NimbRo won at RoboCup 2016 the Humanoid TeenSize soccer competition and the igus Humanoid Open Platform robot received the first Harting International Open-Source Award. In the Amazon Picking Challenge, our team came in 2nd in the Stowing task and 3rd in the Picking task.
Marcell Missura successfully defended his PhD thesis "Analytic and Learned Footstep Control for Robust Bipedal Walking"
Our team NimbRo Explorer solved through the mobile manipulation robot Momaro all tasks at the DLR SpaceBot Camp.
Katrin Gräve successfully defended her PhD thesis "Lernen komplexer Aufgaben aus Demonstration und eigener Erfahrung".
The igus® Humanoid Open Platform robot, which we develop together with igus® GmbH, won the first RoboCup Design Award at the RoboCup 2015 Competition in Hefei, China.
Our team NimbRo Rescue was the best ranked European Team at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals in Pomona, CA, coming in 4th in the overall ranking.
Our teams NimbRo Manufacturing, NimbRo Logistics, and NimbRo Copter have been admitted to Stage II of the European Robotics Challenges (EuRoC). Together with industrial end-users, they will address use cases in the domain "Factories of the Future".
Jörg Stückler received the 2015 Georges Giralt PhD Award for his thesis “Efficient Dense Registration, Segmentation, and Modeling Methods for RGB-D Environment Perception” at the European Robotics Forum in Vienna.
Our team NimbRo Rescue is qualified to participate at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals.
The Grant Agreement 644839 for the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action "CENTAURO – Robust Mobility and Dexterous Manipulation in Disaster Response by Fullbody Telepresence in a Centaur-like Robot" has been signed. University of Bonn is the coordinator. Partners are: Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Linköping University (Sweden), RWTH Aachen University, progenoX GmbH, and Kerntechnische Hilfsdienst GmbH. The project is funded in call ICT-23-2014 Robotics, will start on April 1st, 2015, and has a duration of 42 months. [Press release]
Two Master theses from our group have been awarded
the BIG Masterarbeitspreis of the Bonner
Informatik
Gesellschaft e.V.:
Manus
McElhone "Model, Match, Vote and Track: 6-DoF Pose Filtering with
Multi-resolution Surfel Maps" and
Benedikt
Waldvogel "Accelerating Random Forests on CPUs and GPUs for
Object-Class Image Segmentation".
Our team NimbRo Explorer is supported by the German Aerospace Center to participate at the DLR SpaceBot Cup 2015.
Our teams NimbRo Manufacturing, NimbRo Logistics, and NimbRo Copter qualified in all three challenges of the European Robotics Challenges Simulation Contest.
The DFG Research Unit FOR 1505 "Mapping on Demand" has been extended for a second fundign period of three more years. Our group will work on the projects P2 "Local Perception for the Autonomous Navigation of Multicopters" and P3 "Autonomous Navigation for Object Capture with Multicopters".
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) will organize the SpaceBot Cup 2015. Our team NimbRo Explorer will receive support to participate.
Our NimbRo soccer team was honored by the federal state of North-Rhine-Westphalia as "Germany at its Best". Award certificate.
Jörg Stückler successfully defended his PhD thesis "Efficient Dense Registration, Segmentation, and Modeling Methods for RGB-D Environment Perception". Winner of 2015 Georges Giralt PhD Award.
German Research Foundation (DFG) granted the extension of the project "Autonomous Learning of Bipedal Walking Stabilization" for three more years.
German Research Foundation (DFG) granted the new project
"ALROMA - Autonomous Active Object Learning Through Robot Manipulation"
in its priority programme SPP
1527 "Autonomous Learning".
Andreas C. Müller successfully defended his PhD thesis "Methods for Learning Structured Prediction in Semantic Segmentation of Natural Images".
Our teams NimbRo
TeenSize and NimbRo@Home
participated in the RoboCup
2014 competition in Joao Pessoa, Brasil.
The soccer robots came in second th the tournament and won the
technical challenge. The domestic serrvice robots reached the third
place in the @Home league. The paper by Marcell Missura and Sven Behnke
"Balanced
Walking with Capture Steps" won the Best Science Paper Award
at the 18th International RoboCup Symposium.
A 3D printed humanoid robot that we are developing in a DFG transfer project together with igus GmbH is presented at Hannover Messe. Press release.
Our team NimbRo won the @Home league competition of the service robots at RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg. Press release.
A new project has started: InventAIRy - Identification with Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles. It is funded in the national BMWi program Autonomics for Industry 4.0. Our group will develop perception and planning methods for autonomous navigation in indoor and outdoor warehouses. Partners are Fraunhofer IML (coordinator), Aibotix GmbH, Panopa Logistik GmbH, and Wiedmann GmbH.
Our Explorer robot demonstrates mobile manipulation in rough terrain at the DLR SpaceBot Cup. More info...
A new EU FP7 research project starts in our group: STAMINA - Sustainable and reliable
robotics for part handling in manufacturing automation.
Partners are: Aalborg University (Coordinator),
Denmark, Peugot Citroen Automobiles
S.A., France, BA Systemes SAS, France,
University of Freiburg, Germany, INESC
Porto, Portugal, and University of Edinburgh, UK.
The Humanoid Soccer School 2013 took place in Bonn, organized by Jacky Baltes and Sven Behnke.
Our team NimbRo won both the Humanoid TeenSize Soccer
competition and the @Home League competition of the service robots at RoboCup
2013 in Eindhoven.
In the Humanoid TeenSize class, our soccer robots won in the final 4:0
vs. CIT-Brains from Japan. More
info...
In the @Home League, our cognitive service robot Cosero showed its
skills in navigation, object manipulation, tool use, and human-robot
interaction. More info...
Our team NimbRo@Home won the competition for service
robots at RoboCup
German Open 2013.
Our Humanoid TeenSize Open Platform NimbRo-OP
received the HARTING Open-Source Award.
More on @Home; more on
NimbRo-OP.
Kickoff meeting for the DLR SpaceBot Cup in Berlin. In total ten teams are qualified. More information about our entry NimbRo Centauro.
Our group receives support from DLR to participate at the DLR SpaceBot Cup. The tasks in this challenge are autonomous exploration and mobile manipulation in rough terrain.
In Düsseldorf, the NRW Young Scientist Award 2012 in the category Applied Informatics has been conferred by the B-IT Research School to Nenad Biresev for his publication with Jörg Stückler and Sven Behnke: "Semantic Mapping Using Object-Class Segmentation of RGB-D Images", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS).
Our new NimbRo-OP Humanoid TeenSize Open Platform robot is shown at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Vilamoura, Portugal.
Three diploma theses that were supervised in our group
received an Diploma thesis award from Bonner Informatik
Gesellschaft (BIG e.V.):
- Andreas Schmitz: "Hierarchische Schrittplanung für humanoide
Fußballroboter (Hierarchical step planning for humanoid soccer
robots)",
- Torsten Fiolka: "Entropiebasierte interessante Regionen in 3D
Punktwolken (Entropy-based interest regions in 3D point clouds)",
and
- Bastian Oehler: "Extraktion geometrischer Formprimitive mit Textur-
und Reliefkarten aus 3D Punktwolken mit Farbinformation (Extraction of
geometric primitives with texture and bump maps from 3D point coulds
with color information)".
Our team NimbRo won both the Humanoid
TeenSize competition and technical challenge as well as the @Home League
competition at RoboCup
2012, which took place in Mexico City. In addition, our
soccer robots received the Louis Vuitton Best Humanoid Award.
The paper J. J. Alcaraz-Jiménez, M. Missura, H. Martínez-Barberá, and
S. Behnke: Lateral
Disturbance Rejection for the Nao Robot received the Best
Paper Award of the RoboCup
Symposium 2012.
Our cognitive service robots won the RoboCup German Open
2012 @Home league competition in Magdeburg.
[Video]
More info ...
Three new research projects start, which are funded by German
Research Foundation (DFG):
The project "Autonomous Learning of Bipedal Walking Stabilization" is
part of the Priority
Programme SPP 1527 "Autonomes Lernen".
The projects "Lokale Wahrnehmung für die Navigation leichter
Fluggeräte" (local perception for the navigation of lightweight drones)
and "3D-Navigation und Hindernisvermeidung für leichte Fluggeräte" (3D
navigation and obstacle avaoidance for lightweight drones) are part of
the Research
Unit FOR 1505 "Mapping on Demand".
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Our group participates in the European Robotics Week
– 28 November – 4 December 2011. Our event: Prof. Oussama Khatib will give a talk on human-friendly robotics. |
Our Team NimbRo won both the Humanoid TeenSize competition and technical challenge and the competition in the @Home League at RoboCup 2011, which took place in Istanbul. The paper Jörg Stückler and Sven Behnke: "Compliant Task-Space Control with Back-Drivable Servo Actuators" received the Best Paper Award at the RoboCup Symposium 2011. more info ...
Our team NimbRo won the @Home League competition at RoboCup German Open in Magdeburg. In the Standard Platform League (SPL) we reached the second place.
We moved. Our new address is: Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, 1st floor.
A new research project started. The experiment ActReMa - Active Recognition and Manipulation of Simple Parts Exploiting 3D Information - is funded by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission as part of Call 2 of the European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development (ECHORD). Partners are the Computer Graphics Group of the Institute of Computer Science II in Bonn and Metronom Automation GmbH, Mainz.
Our team won the Humanoid TeenSize soccer tournament
at the RoboCup 2010
competition in Singapore, was elected "Best Humanoid", and reached the
second place in the @Home League. More
info ...
[@Home
Video] [TeenSize
Video]
Our domestic service robot Dynamaid participated at the ICRA Mobile Manipulation Challenge in Anchorage, Alaska. More info ...
Our team participated at the RoboCup German Open competition in Magdeburg in the @Home League and in the Standard Platform League (SPL). In both leagues, our robots reached the second place. Our TeenSize humanoid soccer robots showed their skills in demonstrations. More info...
Our communication robot Robotinho is tested in the Deutsches Museum Bonn. As a tour guide, it explains three of our robots and three permanent exhibits. [Video]
Our humanoid soccer robot Dynaped (Team NimbRo) won the RoboCup 2009 TeenSize Dribble-and-Kick tournament in Graz, Austria. Dynaped also won the TeenSize Technical Challenges. In the @Home league, our Robots Dynamaid and Robotinho came in third. They also won the innovation award for "Innovative robot body design, empathic behaviors, and robot-robot cooperation". More info...
Our humanoid soccer robots (Team NimbRo)
won the RoboCup
German Open competition.
We also participated in the @Home
league, where we came in second.
Soccer video: 
@Home video: 
We receive two "Personal Supercomputers" for our Computational
Intelligence Lab.
They are equipped with 4x GTX295 cards each. The 8 GPUs per box have a
total of 1.920 compute cores.
Our humanoid soccer robots will be demonstrated at B-IT during the university open house for high school students and Schüler-Krypto.
Our KidSize 2006 humanoid soccer robot Paul will be displayed in the science train (Wissenschaftszug) that will travel though Germany.
Our group joins the European Robotics Research Network EURON.
Our soccer robots are demonstrated at the institute party in the Faculty Club.
Our soccer team NimbRo
won the Humanoid League KidSize soccer tournament of RoboCup 2008, which
took place in Suzhou, China.
Video: 
Our soccer team NimbRo
won the humanoid league competitions of RoboCup
German Open 2008, which took place at Hannover Messe.
Video: 
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