I demonstrate robotics research to public audiences, policymakers and the media, with an emphasis on showing what the systems can—and cannot yet—do on real hardware.
20 October 2025 · HangzhouReceived the Best Poster Award at the workshop on Perception and Planning for Mobile Manipulation in Changing Environments for work on open-vocabulary semantic search in scene graphs. This workshop paper is a distinct precursor to O-STaR.
Award announcementPhoto: Humanoid Robots Lab, University of Bonn.
2025 · BonnDemonstrated HortiBot for WDR’s Lokalzeit aus Bonn and discussed robotic horticulture.
HRL coverage
May 2025 · BonnPixels to Peppers: Active Perception in Robotic Agriculture. A public talk on crop monitoring and robotic harvesting.
Pint of Science GermanyPresented mobile manipulation and horticultural robotics at Bonn Nacht der Technik, Wissenschaftsfest am Hofgarten and University open days.
22 February 2024 · BonnDemonstrated HortiBot and its three-arm autonomous harvesting system during Hendrik Wüst’s visit to the Humanoid Robots Lab.
University coveragePhoto: Land NRW / Marcel Kusch.
Presented active perception and fruit mapping on HortiBot at the 40th anniversary celebration of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Event websiteDemonstrated NEURA robots to international visitors and media.
Set up and demonstrated DFKI’s Hybr-iT mobile manipulator.
