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| Company | Manu Systems AG |
|---|---|
| Address | Brunnstr. 25 93053 Regensburg GERMANY |
| Phone | +49 941 9459 280 |
| Fax | +49 941 9459 289 |
| Internet | http://en.manu-systems.com/ |
| mail@manu-systems.com | |
| Business year | Calendar year |
| Date of establishment | 2003 |
| Registered Office | Regensburg |
| Trade Register | AG Regensburg HRB 10668 |
| Management Board | Bernd Worsch, Marco Reichel (Chairman) |
| Chairman of the Supervisory Board | Prof. Dr. Lutz H Schminke |
| Corporate purpose | The company has object being the production and distribution of robot hand systems, humanoid robots and other mobile robot systems, useful for humans for example in houses. |
| Share capital | 75,000 EUR |
Chairman of the Management Board
Operations:
- Company development
- Project management
- Merchandise management
- Finance
Mitglied des Vorstands, zuständig für Technologie und Ressourcen
Operations:
- Technology strategy
- Human resources strategy
Mandate:
- Member of the Supervisory Board of Max21 AG
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Tuesday, 25.01.2011, European Patent Office, Munich
European Patent Academy
Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation
17:40 - 18:00
SME case study
Marco Reichel, Manu Systems AG
Continuing the process of transformation to a technology company MANU SYSTEMS submits on December 2nd, 2009 the proposal MECHANICUS. The EU FP7 call is: research for the benefit of SMEs.
On request the city of Regensburg granted support for proposal submission to the European Union work programm 2010 'Research for SMEs'.
The EU research project PV-Servitor starts with a Kick-off Meeting at Prof. Dr. Heinrich Häberlin in Switzerland.
MANU SYSTEMS get's validated as a SME for FP7.
In the process of transformation to a technology company MANU SYSTEMS submits on April 11, 2008 the research proposal PV-Servitor. The EU FP7 call is: research for the benefit of SMEs.
We moved. Our new location in the city of Regensburg is near the Autobahn A3 and the University of Regensburg. The office is located near attractive residences in the country. Short ways serve the interest of ecology and economy.
The Shadow Dextrous Hand was presented November 6 - 8, 2006 at:
National Safety Council
2006 Congress and Expo
San Diego, California
The KAWABUCHI hand encountered the Shadow Dextrous Hand at WIRED NEXTFEST.
Both hands had the fantastic opportunity to shake hands.
Visit the Innovation Platform Service Robotics in the robot-hall B3 (booth 331 and booth 339) and you will experience a demonstration of the newest Shadow Dextrous Hand. The Innovation Platform Service Robotics is a jointly shared booth with many exceptional exhibitors; the booth will be coordinated by Fraunhofer IPA. More details...
The Bavarian Prime Minister
Edmund Stoiber and the First Lady Karin Stoiber greet the Shadow Dextrous Hand by handshake.
We visited for you 'The Vision Show East 2006' and searched for machine vision solutions for robotics. We found VALDE Systems, Inc., an excellent supplier of complete stereo image processing systems for robotics and became their first official distributor for Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
NDR television, which was supported by MANU SYSTEMS, will air a story about vacuuming robots covering iRobot's Roomba at February 09, 2006, 6:15pm. It will rerun at February 13, 2006, 8:15pm.
NDR is the leading electronic media corporation in Northern Germany with an influence reaching far beyond it's area of coverage. More details...
GraspIt! now features the Shadow Dextrous Hand.
Dr. Andrew Miller and Prof. Peter Allen from the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University in New York City have created a robotic grasping simulator known as GraspIt! that can accommodate arbitrary hand and robot designs. The user simply specifies the kinematics in a configuration file and provides the link geometry files. It also includes a rapid collision detection and contact determination system that allows a user to interactively manipulate the joints of the hand and create new grasps of a target object. Each grasp is evaluated with numeric quality measures, and visualization methods allow the user to see the weak point of the grasp and create arbitrary 3D projections of the 6D grasp wrench space.
The Shadow Dextrous Hand is the first commercially available hand with five fingers supported by GraspIt!.
Humanoid robots will assist in human space exploration.
Robonaut for example could be an emergency system outside the International Space Station, where it could be actived almost immidiately. Astronauts need several hours to prepare for EVA.
Robonaut has a humanoid hand and therefore the advantage to be able to use the same tools already developed for humans in space. He will be teleoperated from a fixed control center on earth or a command module inside the space station. The operator uses virtual reality to experience the world of the robot, controlling the head by a cyberhelmet and the hand through a cyberglove. The anthropomorphic design of robots, especially the design of hands with five articulated fingers, can be inspired by purchasing advanced robotic hands. Therefore the
Robonaut project at the NASA Johnson Space Center decided to procure a Shadow Dextrous Hand. The first delivery and installation of a Shadow Dextrous Hand in the UNITED STATES was successfully completed on November 04, 2005 in Houston, Texas.
Humanoid robots will be commercially viable in the repair of satellites in orbit. This type of mission is more cost effective and less risky than service by an astronaut. A rocket launch is an enormous strain for a satellite and can easily lead to a mission failure: for example failure of the power supply. Also the quantity of 'space junk' in orbit increases and endangers other satellites. New satellites can be designed for repair either by astronouts or humanoid robots. Hubble has already been designed to be upgraded and repaired by astronauts or robots.
The award winning Shadow Dextrous Hand wins a
NASA contract. NASA Johnson Space Center has awarded the Shadow Robot Company
with a contract for the Shadow Dextrous Hand.
Robonaut is a humanoid robot designed by the Robot Systems Technology Branch at
NASA's Johnson Space Center in a collaborative effort with DARPA.
More details...
Workshop on Humanoid Manipulation
MIT Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
2:00-5:00 p.m.: demonstration of the Shadow Dextrous Hand
Aaron Edsinger-Gonzales deserves the deepest thanks of MANU SYSTEMS and Shadow.
MANU SYSTEMS @ RoboBusiness distributes infos about the Shadow Dextrous Hand.
The first delivery ever of a Shadow Dextrous Hand went to the
Neuroinformatics Group in Bielefeld, which has been active in the field of Artificial Neural Networks
since 1989. The group is led by Professor
Helge Ritter, winner of the
Leibniz Prize,
and pursues research in several areas related
to artificial neural networks, neural modeling, adaptive systems, machine learning and neural
computation. Furthermore, current research programmes within the group are focused on the improvement
of man-machine-interfaces, robot-force-control, eye-tracking experiments, machine vision, virtual
reality and distributed systems.
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the highest honour awarded in German research. The Leibniz Programme, established in 1985, aims to improve the working conditions of outstanding scientists and academics, expand their research opportunities, relieve them of administrative tasks, and help them employ particularly qualified young researchers. The prize for researchers working in experimental, instrumentation-based fields is valued at &euro 1.55 m. Researchers working in more theoretical fields receive &euro 770.000. The prize is awarded from nominations put forward by third parties. The prizewinner is selected by the Grants Committee on General Research Support on the basis of a recommendation from the Nominations Committee for the Leibniz Programme.
Sunday evening 22:35 at FOCUS TV on Pro7.
FOCUS TV covers the film I,Robot and Humanoid Robotics in Germany.
The humanoid robot NS-5 in the film I,Robot uses artificial muscles.
We support the concept of artificial muscles and
offer Shadow Air Muscles for Humanoid Robotics.
Transformation of Shadow Dextrous Hand and Shadow Finger Test Unit from Prototype to Product for Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping
Marco Reichel, The Shadow Robot Company
IMG04, Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping, International Conference, July 1-2, 2004,Genova - Italy
May 21, 2004 - Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart, Germany
2nd International Workshop on Advances in Service Robots
Technical Program
| Friday, May 21 | |
|---|---|
| 15:30 - 16:50 | Session "Manipulation" |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | The Shadow Dextrous Hand (The Shadow Robot Company) |
ISR 2004 exhibition
world premier of Shadow Dextrous Hand at Industrie 2004 & ISR 2004 exhibition
Shadow Robot Company & Manu Systems
"The 25 degrees of freedom are best for my research."
Prof. Dr. Helge Ritter,
Universität Bielefeld, winner of the
Leibniz Prize
"The Shadow Dextrous Hand represents a breakthrough in functionality for robotic systems. Every serious
manipulation group should own a pair."
Rich Walker, Technical Director
The Shadow Robot Company Ltd.
Registration at trade register completed.
Foundation of the business at the notary Werner Mitzel in Forchheim: Marco Reichel and Bernd Worsch establish a shareholder company based in 91365 Weilersbach and named Manu Systems AG. The company has object being the production and distribution of robot hand systems, humanoid robots and other mobile robot systems, useful for humans for example in houses;
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