The Fifth EURON/EUnited Robotics Technology Transfer Award [Regional]

The European Robotics Research Network (EURON) and the European Robotics Association EUnited Robotics have now for the fifth time presented their joint Technology Transfer Award in the recognition of outstanding achievements in the European robot technology. At their annual meeting in Prague on 28 March, the first prize was awarded to Nicola Canelli and Giancarlo Teti from the Italian startup company RoboTech for its successful I-Droid 01 robotic kit. More than 100,000 units of this small humanoid robot have been sold worldwide in the form of collect-and-build kits available in around 90 consecutive issues from newspaper kiosks.