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DFKI Robotics Innovation Center is a robotics company founded 2006, developing 2 robots primarily in the Research category.
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Add a deployment →The DFKI Robotics Innovation Center (RIC) is a research department of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), located in Bremen, Germany. Founded in 2006, it develops humanoid and mobile robotic systems for space exploration, underwater operations, and service applications. The center is known for platforms including AILA, Charlie, and the MANTIS multi-limbed robot, and operates under principal investigator Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchner.
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RoboScore 37.82 + Momentum 0.00
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- Founded
- 2006 · 20 yrs
RoboScore
37.82 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Speculative — thin evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
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