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AUTOMATICA 2010, Munich

By Frank Tobe | June 7, 2010

Read a review of the events and activities at AUTOMATICA 2010.

Slide and video show of AUTOMATICA 2010.

Alexander Verl, an inventor, entrepreneur, and researcher at Fraunhofer IPA, won this year’s IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship Award (IERA) for outstanding achievement. His invention transformed the QC, measurement and inspection process from a room full of cameras to flexible inline scanning measurement robots.

Heinz-Dieter Schunk, CEO, Schunk GmbH, and Scott Deming, Director of the Advanced Machine Systems Group with Corning Inc., received this year’s Robotic Industries Association Engleberger Robotics Awards for their 25+ years of leadership and application respectively.

Both awards were presented Tuesday evening at the ISR-Robotik banquet in Munich.

About The Author

Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.