The AIROB Lab at the First German Robotics Conference 2025 in Nürnberg 🤖

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24/03/2025

We’re delighted to announce that AIROB Lab participated in the first-ever German Robotics Conference (GRC) 2025 in Nuremberg, hosted by the newly established Robotics Institute Germany. The conference united leading experts, pioneering researchers, and innovative industry professionals, creating an inspiring platform for collaboration and shaping the future of robotics.

Our team, under the supervision of Prof. Claudio Castellini, contributed two posters showcasing our most recent scientific advancements:

  • Marek Sierotowicz and Hannah Braun presented an opinion piece exploring the symbiotic relationship between robotics research and science fiction, emphasizing how these fields inspire both technological innovation and societal imagination.
  • Marc-Anton Scheidl, Hannah Braun, and Jacob Behrendt presented our in-house real-time prosthetic ankle control using minimalist ridge regression techniques based on surface electromyography (sEMG). Their findings clearly demonstrate the benefits of velocity-based control for intuitive, low-latency prosthetic interfaces, significantly improving user experience and efficiency.For this study, we utilized our self-developed prosthetic platform—a revised and more affordable version of the Open-Source Prosthetic Leg v2.0. This prosthesis, previously showcased at the 2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII) in Munich, is based on the Open-Source Leg v2.0 by the Neurobionics Lab at Michigan University. Comprehensive documentation for replication and further development is publicly available here: Open-Source Prosthetic Leg v2.0 Paper. Moreover, our research received special attention through coverage by Bayerischer Rundfunk, providing an excellent opportunity to share our work with a broader audience. Check out the media feature here at 7:10 minutes: BR Coverage

We would like to send a warm thank you to OT BaĂźler GmbH Erlangen and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for their ongoing support and collaboration.

We look forward to further contributing to the robotics community and continuing exciting collaborations within the Robotics Institute Germany!

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