Consortium news – FloraRobotica

Project coordinator and team move Institution

citaadmin — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:14:51 +0000

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heiko Hamann and his flora robotica team – Mostafa Wahby and Mohammad Divband Soorati – have moved to Universität zu Lübeck, taking up posts on 01.04.2017.
Prof. Hamann will be leading the Service Robotics Group located within the Institute of Computer Engineering.

The consortium expresses its gratitude to University of Paderborn, and especially Daniela Gerdes, EU Liaison officer, for their support during the preparation and running of the project to this point.

flora robotica – first EU review at 18 months

citaadmin — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:28:20 +0000

On the 21/22 November, the flora robotica project was officially reviewed for the first time by a panel of external experts appointed by the EU Commission.

Convening in Copenhagen at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (home of partner CITA), the expert panel were presented with an exhibition of prototypes, running experiments, films, visualisations, a full-scale installation and 1.5 days of presentations from the project partners.

In review, the expert panel deemed that the consortium had made ‘excellent progress’ over the first 18 months of the project.

“[The] Project has fully achieved its objectives and milestones for the period….The research is of high quality because it encompasses all aspects of study design, including the judgments regarding the match between the questions and methods, selection of tasks, measurement of outcomes, and protection against biases and inferential errors. The research and technological developments pose significant questions that can be investigated empirically and contribute to the knowledge base…The project already made a significant contribution to the state of the art in robotics, architecture, sensor science, and computer modelling.”

FR project coordinator to edit Frontiers Research Topic

citaadmin — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:51:28 +0000

Prof. Heiko Hamann will edit the new Frontiers Research Topic Plant-inspired Robotics and Bio-hybrid Societies: Applications of Plant and Animal Intelligence in Technological Systems, in Frontiers in Robotics and AI and Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

Link to the call here

FR partner Cybertronica is nominated for EU Innovation Radar

citaadmin — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:06:44 +0000

flora robotica partner Cybertronica has been nominated for the EU Innovation Radar Prize 2016, for their work on biomass sensing. “Biomass sensing technology is based on the property of biological objects (plants, animals, insects) to change electric fields in the environment or generated by the sensor itself.”

Link to voting here