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Year of election: | 2008 |
Section: | Engineering Sciences |
City: | Wessling |
Country: | Germany |
Gerd Hirzinger's work focuses on robotics, mainly on robot sensing, sensory feedback, mechatronics, man-machine interfaces, telerobotics and space robotics. He was prime investigator of the space robot technology experiment ROTEX, the first real robot in space, which flew onboard shuttle COLUMBIA in April 1993.
DLR’s (the German Aerospace Center) Institute for “Robotics and Mechatronics” is one of the biggest and most acknowledged institutes in the field worldwide, including not only robot development for space and terrestrial applications, but also aircraft control and optimization, vehicle technology (x by wire components and systems) and medical technology (artificial hearts and surgical robots).