ICRA Best Video Award (discontinued 2016)

About the Award 

Description: To recognize the most outstanding video in the Video Proceedings of the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
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: Announced and presented at the annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.

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Winners of this Award

2016
Award Not Presented

2015
Award Not Presented

2014
Berthold Bäuml, Tobias Hammer, René Wagner, Oliver Birbach, Ulrich Hillenbrand, Werner Friedl, Jörg Butterfass, FangYi Zhi, Thomas Gumpert, Stefan Beer
"Agile Justin: An Upgraded Member of DLR's Family of Lightweight and Torque Controlled Humanoids"

2013
Award Not Presented

2012
Alexander S. Boxerbaum, Andrew D. Horchler, Kendrick M. Shaw, Hillel J. Chiel, Roger D. Quinn
"The Worm Turns... And Runs"

2011
Masaya Hagiwara, Tomohiro Kawahara, Lin Feng, Yoko Yamanishi, Fumihito Arai
"High Performance Magnetically Driven Microtools with Ultrasonic Vibration for Biomedical Innovations"

2010
Amir Degani, Siyuan Feng, Howie Choset, Matthew T. Mason
"Minimalistic, Dynamic, Tube Climbing Robot"

2009
Christoph Borst, Thomas Wimboek, Florian Schmidt, Matthias Fuchs, Bernard Brunner, Franziska Zacharias, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Rainer Konietschke, Wolfgang Sepp, Stefan Fuchs, Christian Rink, Alin Albu-Schaeffer, Christian Rink, Alin Abu-Schaeffer, and Gerd Hirzinger
"Rollin' Justin - Mobile Platform with Variable Base"

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, 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" 

Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Anh X.H. Dang, Robert W. Bush
"Theoretical and Experimental Development of an Active Acceleration Compensation Platform for the Transport of Delicate Objects" 

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"

R. Hebbar, S. Chhatpar, C. Birkhimer, M. Branicky, W. Newman, S. Charles, M. Stuart, R. Stoughton, A. Reimann, A. Kolrzhenyak, D. Kozlowski
"Flexible Robotic Assembly for Power-Train Applications (FRAPA)"

2001
T. William Whittaker, Peter J. Staritz, Sarjoun Skaff, Chris Urmson
"Skyworker"

2000
Paul Rybski, Saifallah Benjaafar, John R. Budenske, Mark Dvorak, Maria Gini, Dean F. Hougen, Donald G. Krantz, Perry Y. Li, Fred Malver, Brad Nelson, Nikolaos Papnikolopoulos, Sascha A. Stoeter, Richard Voyles, Kemal Berk Yesin
"A Robotics Reconnaissance and Surveillance Team"

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, 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, K. Tso
"Multi--sensor Remote Surface Inspection"

1993
Fuminori Saito, Toshio Fukuda
"Brachiation Robot"

1992
E.J.P. Karidis, Li-Cheng R. Zai , D.G. Manzer, L.F. Durfee
"The Hummingbird Minipositioner"