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FZI Research Center for Information Technology is a robotics company founded 1985, based in Germany, developing 3 robots primarily in the Research category.
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FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik develops the LAURON series of intelligent multi-legged walking robots, including LAURON V and LAURON VI, for research on dynamic locomotion and field robotics. Its public materials say the robots are intended for rough or hazardous environments and related exploration, inspection, and disaster-response use cases. The organization is based in Germany and has been working on the LAURON platform since the early 1990s.
Company facts
- HQ
- Karlsruhe, Germany
- Founded
- 1985 · 41 yrs
- Website
- www.fzi.de/en
RoboScore
50.61 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Adequate evidence
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On the company boards
- #3 of 51·Research·best robot 53.71 + depth 1.67 + news 0.00 = total 55.38
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Milestones
LAURON VI was presented publicly at the CLAWAR conference.
LAURON V was completed as the fifth generation of the walking robot family.
FZI began working on the development of intelligent, multi-legged walking robots in the early nineties.
Press coverage
- LAURON
FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik
- LAURON
Wikipedia
- LAURON VI: Hexapod Dynamic Locomotion
Emergent Mind
Public loss record
Consumer product alerts from this country reach the EU Safety Gate, which we read. Industrial, workplace and medical incidents never enter it, so a blank record says nothing about those.
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