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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.
Research center for intelligent systems, software, and robotics
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.
Active products
3
Robo Score
61
A
View factor breakdown
Price range
$150K – $185K
2 of 3 priced
Top-rated product
A
Robo Index
LAURON V
Company facts
- HQ
- Karlsruhe, Germany
- Founded
- 1985 · 41 yrs
- Stage
- unknown
- Website
- www.fzi.de/en
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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
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