We have a new RBO Mission Statement!

We welcome our newest RBO member Oscar Weißenbach. He will work as one of our two Technical Staffmember.

Three years and countless visitors later, the RBO Hand is still going strong! First on the MS Wissenschaft, the RBO Hand exhibit is now part of the "Mission AI" at Deutsches Museum Bonn. Try it out! https://deutsches-museum.de/bonn/ausstellung/mission-ki

Check out the latest "Video Friday" by IEEE Spectrum! It features our recent update on the acoustic sensor reading Braille patterns. Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-robot-guitar

We had a great retreat at the Ökoschloss Tornow! No Zoom meeting can outweigh in person discussions in a beautiful place :)

Oliver Brock participated in the Soft Robotics Podcast for the second time! Do not hesitate to check out his interesting conversation on "Co-Design of Soft Robots" with Marwa Eldiwiny.

Welcome to our newest members of the RBO team: Vito Mengers and Oussama Zenkri!

Some exciting new results of our acoustic sensing technology by Vincent Wall! Reading Braille seems to be no problem at all!

You want to get started with acoustic sensing yourself? Have a look at our starter kit: https://www.robotics.tu-berlin.de/menue/software_tutorials/acoustic_sensing_starter_kit/

Oliver Brock participated as a panelist in the Soft Robotics Debate on "Exploratory Research vs. Application Oriented Solutions".

We are happy to announce that our surprising results on dexterous manipulation with the RBO Hand 3 have been accepted to RSS 2021!

Title: Surprisingly Robust In-Hand Manipulation: An Empirical Study
Authors: Aditya Bhatt, Adrian Sieler, Steffen Puhlmann and Oliver Brock
Paper: https://roboticsconference.org/program/papers/089/
Video: https://youtu.be/Z6ECG3KHibI

Congratulations to Előd Pall and Oliver Brock for their accepted paper on Analysis of open-loop grasping from piles at ICRA 2021.