| About the award | |
|---|---|
| Description: | To recognize the most outstanding video in the Video Proceedings of the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. |
| Established: | 1992 |
| Prize: | $ 1,000 and Certificate |
| Funding: | Funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. |
| Eligibility: | Authors of videos published in the Video Proceedings of the annual International Conference on Robotics and Automation for the year of the award presentation. |
| Basis for judging: | Technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, practical significance for applications, and clarity of the video presentation. |
| Presentation: | At annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, normally held in May of each year. |
| Year | Winner and reason |
|---|---|
| 2008 |
Johann Borenstein and Adam Borrell
The OmniTread OT-4 Serpentine Robot |
| 2007 |
Christoph Borst, Christian Ott, Thomas Wimboeck, Bernhard Brunner, Franziska Zacharias, Berthold Bae
Humanoid Upper Body System for Two-Handed Manipulation |
| 2006 |
Alan T. Asbeck, Sangbae Kim, Arthur J. McClung, Mark R. Cutkosky
Climbing Walls with Microspines |
| 2005 |
William A. Lewinger, Cynthia M. Harley, Roy E. Ritzmann, Michael S. Branicky, and Roger D. Quinn
Insect-like Antennal Sensing for Climbing and Tunneling Behavior in a Biologically-inspired Mobile Robot |
| 2004 |
Kenji Kaneko, Fumio Kanehiro, Shuuji Kakota, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Kensuke Harada, Kazuhito Yokoi, Hirohisa Hirukawa:
Humanoid Robot HRP-2 Promet (Co-winner) |
| 2004 |
Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Anh X.H. Dang, and Robert W. Bush
Theoretical and Experimental Development of an Active Acceleration Compensation Platform for the Transport of Delicate Objects (Co-winner) |
| 2003 |
Kazuhito Yokoi, K. Kaneko, F. Kanehiro, Y. Kawai, F. Tomita, H. Hirukawa, T. Isozumi, K. Yokoyama, H. Handa
Humanoid Robot HRP-2P |
| 2002 |
J. Yan, S. Avadhanula, J. Birch, M. Dickinson, M. Menon, E. Park, T. Sands, S. Sane, M. Sitti, T. Su
The Micromechanical Flying Insect |
| 2002 |
R. Hebbar, S. Chhatpar, C. Birkhimer, M. Branicky, W. Newman, S. Charles, M. Stuart, R. Stoughton, A. Reimann, A. Kolrzhenyak and D. Kozlowski.
Flexible Robotic Assembly for Power-Train Applications (FRAPA) |
| 2001 |
T. William Whittaker, Peter J. Staritz, Sarjoun Skaff, Chris Urmson.
Skyworker |
| 2000 |
Nikos Papanikolopoulos, Maria Gini, Don Krantz, Brad Nelson, Richard Voyles
Appearance-Based Place Recognition for Topological Localization |
| 1999 |
P. J. Berkelman, and R. L. Hollis
Interaction with Simulated Environments using a Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interface Device |
| 1998 |
M. Spong and B. Bishop
Development of a Three Degree of Freedom Air hockey Robot |
| 1997 |
Clement M. Gosselin, Eric St.Pierre and Martin Gagne
Development and Experimentation with the Agile Eye. |
| 1996 |
Shree Nayar, Sameer A. Nene, and Hiroshi Murase
General Framework for Appearance Matching |
| 1995 |
Kenneth S. Espenschied, Roger D. Quinn, Hillel J. Chiel, Randall D. Beer
Biologically Inspired Hexapod Robot Project: Second Robot |
| 1994 |
Mark Yim
Locomotion Gates with Polypod |
| 1994 |
S. Hayati, J. Belaram, R. Ivelev, D. Lim, T. Ohm, H Seraji, G. Tharp, R. Volpe and K. Tso
) Multi--sensor Remote Surface Inspection |
| 1993 |
Fuminori Saito and Toshio Fukuda
Brachiation Robot |
| 1992 |
: E.J.P. Karidis, Li-Cheng R. Zai , D.G. Manzer, L.F. Durfee
The Hummingbird Minipositioner |