DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics Timeline

Events

• 2026-03-23 - Partnership - DLR and SCHUNK expand humanoid-hand technology-transfer partnership - The partners signed a declaration of intent at the 2026 German Robotics Conference. DLR technology is intended to feed into SCHUNK's modular anthropomorphic five-finger hand programme. The collaboration builds on roughly 20 years of joint work. - source: dlr.de
• 2025-06-24 - Demonstration - DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics presents robotics highlights at automatica 2025 - The programme covered future manufacturing, assistance robotics and medical robotics. DLR presented systems spanning humanoids, mobile manipulation, perception and human-robot interaction. The exhibits showed institute-developed robotics technology in live… - source: dlr.de
• 2025-03-25 - Partnership - DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics and Siemens launch research collaboration on the production of the future - The partners signed a cooperation agreement covering research into future production systems. The programme connects DLR robotics and AI research with Siemens manufacturing and automation expertise. Both organizations framed technology transfer into… - source: dlr.de
• 2024-03-14 - Award - DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics researcher Manuel Keppler wins Georges Giralt PhD Award - Manuel Keppler won the Georges Giralt PhD Award for the best European robotics dissertation based on work in the institute's Analysis and Control Department. The thesis advanced a unified control framework spanning rigid and elastic joint robots. The prize… - source: dlr.de
• 2014-11-18 - Research Publication - DLR publishes overview paper for torque-controlled humanoid TORO - DLR published an overview of TORO at the 2014 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. The paper describes TORO's mechanical design, sensors, electronics, computer hardware, walking strategy, and multi-contact balancing approach. The paper gives… - source: elib.dlr.de