Project EyeSeeCam wins this year’s robot award
It was a unanimous jury, which Thursday 11th September presented RoboDays international robot award at 10.000 euros at the annual RoboDays robot festival in Odense, Denmark. The prize went to exhibitor Johannes Vockeroth for the project EyeSeeCam.
It was the project
EyeSeeCam from University Munich Hospital in Germany, that among
the 25 nominated research projects at the RoboDays robot festival
exhibition, won the award of 10.000 euros. EyeSeeCam is a camera
system, which is mounted on the head and controlled with the eyes.
It is unique, because it records everything that the eyes, on the
one that wears the device, sees. For example it can be used by
surgeons, when others need to see, how they operate.
It was a happy exhibitor and researcher Johannes Vockeroth, who
received the award on behalf of his research group lead by Ph.d.
Erich Schneider from Clinical Neurosciences.
- It is totally surprising, and my coleagues will be very
impressed. We have worked with this project for 5 years, and this
award will strengthen our cooperation and venture in this area. The
money I will personally use for my ph.d.-project, where I will
create a camera-system for the head, which covers an angel of 360
degrees, said Johannes Vockeroth.
The award is presented at RoboDays robot festival to the
research related robot project, which has the highest developmental
potential and news value. The winner is elected by a jury
consisting of business people from the robot industry and
researchers from Danish knowledge institutions. One of them was
professor at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institut at University of
Southern Denmark, Henrik Gordon Petersen:
- We awarded the EyeSeeCam, because it is a project with a high
technological level, which has a great commercial potential and
many different applications, he said.
In the official explanation was among other things mentioned,
that the project is technologically well build, because it applies
human qualities to a machine. In addition the jury recommended,
that the money should be spent on further development of the
EyeSeeCam, so that the system can be used in other areas, such as
game industry or remote surgery. This way a surgeon in New York has
the opportunity to watch, when a surgeon in Odense operates. The
opportunities are ceaseless.
The winner of the robot award in 2007, the last held robot
festival, the KeepOn-project by the Japanese researcher Hideki
Kozima and the American Ph.D.-student Marek Michalowsk, offered
this year's winner a few words of advice:
- The award is generous and significant, and it is not only a
recognition of ones work, but also a motivation to keep working. So
for us, it gave us the opportunity to start our own company
BeatBots, said Marek Michalowski and congratulated Johannes
Vockeroth.
KeepOn is a small yellow dance robot, which interacts with
humans by touch. It is addressed towards children.
Jury Members
Henrik Gordon Petersen, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institut,
University of Southern Denmark
Lasse Mogensen, RoboCluster
Peder Esben Bilde, Helene Elsass Center
Marek Michalowski , BeatBots
Hideki Kozima, BeatBots
RoboDays robot festival is arranged by RoboCluster in
cooperation with University of Southern Denmark, Syddansk
Erhvervsskole, Eventhouse Odense and the Region of Southern
Denmark.
Further Information
Jørgen Jakob Friis
Manager of RoboDays Festival Secretariat
M +45 2058 5091
jjfriis@robocluster.dk
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Updated:
2009.09.11