New Startup Wandelbots

End of 2017, some of our PhD students (C. and M. Piechnick, J. Falkenberg, S. Werner, G. Püschel) have founded the startup Wandelbots. (Facebook entry). I am very proud that the research field "Model-driven robot software engineering" which the chair runs now since 2012 has fostered such a dynamic and interesting company.

Our "robolab" was very active:

• It started in autunn 2015, with the participation of the Kuka innovation award at the Hanover Fair 2016. 
• In Feb 2017, they demo'ed at MWC Barcelona 2017: Mr T., the world's first immersive multi-robot:, an interview with CEO T. Höttges interview (in the front), Mr T. in the background
• And this demo was given at the IFA Berlin 2017: Hot Wire adaptive robot demo
• In December, they participated at the TechCrunch Disruptive in Berlin. They were under the 5 finalists (pitch). 
• BITKOM Startup Area hub.berlin 2017 (1:40min)

The developments were supported by TU Dresden (UR-10 robot), the ECSEL project IoSense (software toolbox), the BMBF project OpenLicht (wearables), and German Telekom (UR-5 robots).