The Robotdalen Innovation Award

The Swedish robotics initiative Robotdalen invites researchers, inventors and entrepreneurs, with commercially valid robotics solutions, to participate in the international competition for the Robotdalen Innovation Award. The winners will be given the opportunity to further develop their innovations in cooperation with Robotdalen.

The Robotdalen Innovation Award is directed towards innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers, graduate and postgraduate students from all over the world who have ideas, concepts or solutions with commercial potential and breakthrough technology, addressing the following fields of robotics and automation:
• Field robotics, solutions for mobile robots, 
• Industrial robotics and automation, providing solutions for small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s),
• Technology for Independent Life, providing solutions for the health care and for the elderly.

Enabling commercial success

The Robotdalen Innovation Award replaces the Robotdalen Scientific Award which was established in 2007. The aim of the Robotdalen Scientific Award was to find new and untried methods for robot technology and automation. That goal is still valid but the new award has a stronger emphasis on the innovation and commercialization aspects.

The jury

The jury will consist of robotics researchers and representatives from the industry and business sector with extensive commercial competence. The researchers in the jury will participate in ratifying the technical level and degree of difficulty of the product or solution. The representatives from the industry and business sector will evalute the commercial potential.

An opportunity for further development

The winner receives € 6,000, as well as a possibility of receiving additionally € 6,000 to further develop the robotics solution in cooperation with Robotdalen. The same goes for the second contestant, who receives € 4,000, with a possibility of receiving additionally € 4,000 for concept development. The third contestant receives € 1,000.

The winners will be announced at the Robotics Innovation Challenge, an international Robotdalen event taking place in Sweden on February 9, 2012.