Previous winners

In 2012 the Robotdalen Innovation Award replaced 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.

Here you can read short presentations about the winners of the award:

2013 - Inerventions

The Robotdalen Innovation Award 2013 went to the Swedish company Inerventions with their product Elektrodress, a bodysuit that relaxes spastic muscles and thus improves function and mobility for people with spastic muscles, due to neurological disorders such as CP, stroke and Multiple sclerosis.

2012 - Bioservo Technologies

The Robotdalen Innovation Award 2012 went to the Swedish company Bioservo Technologies for their SEM Glove (Soft Extra Muscle), that adds extra power to the grip, through force sensitive sensors and robotics technology.

2010 - Dr Matei Ciocarlie

The winner of the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2010 was Dr. Matei Ciocarlie from Columbia University, USA. He participated with his thesis Low-Dimensional Robotic Grasping: Eigengrasp Subspaces and Optimized Underactuation.

2009 - Dr Davide Scaramuzza

The winner of the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2009 was Dr Davide Scaramuzza from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland. He participated with his thesis Omnidirectional Vision: from Calibration to Robot Motion Estimation.

2008 - Dr Sylvain Calinon

The winner of the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2008 was Dr Sylvain Calinon from the University Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He participated in the competition with his thesis Continuous Extraction of Task Constraints in a Robot Programming by Demonstration Framework.

2007 - Dr Eric Demeester

The winner of the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2007 was Dr Eric Demeester from the Katholieke Universiteit in Belgium. He entered the competition with his thesis User-adapted plan recognition and shared control for wheelchair driver assistance under uncertainty.

Robotdalen is partly financed by:

Robotdalen is a Swedish robotics initiative with the mission to enable commercial success of new ideas and research within robotics & automation. We focus mainly on solutions for the industry, heavy autonomous vehicles and technology for independent life. We initiate and support R&D-projects in close co-operation with innovators, researchers and companies. Our goal is 35 new companies and 35 new products within robotics and automation by 2013.