Schunk was honoured with the Hermes Award for an AI-based project at the opening of the Hannover Messe. The application kit enables recurring sorting or logistics tasks to be automated with little effort.
The 2D Grasping Kit project consists of a camera with lens, an industrial PC, AI software and an application-specific gripper. The Innovation lies in the generic, AI-based modelling of component variants and the transfer to a smaller training data set, which reduces teach-in times for detection. The intuitive user interface enables the reliable handling of different, randomly arranged parts from a conveyor belt, tray or supply table - even with changing light, colour or background conditions. This means that recurring sorting or logistics tasks can be automated with little effort.
„The future of supplying people and industry in our country lies in automation. Only with sustainable innovations, especially for production and logistics, can we successfully master the economic and social challenges of tomorrow. From the jury's point of view, the decision to award the prize to the 2D Grasping Kit was based not only on its ease of use but also on the robustness of the development for many of the upcoming automation solutions.“
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Hanselka, President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Every year for more than 20 years, Deutsche Messe AG has honoured a company with the Hermes Award during the Hannover Messe trade fair. It is regarded as the most important international industry prize. The award honours a product or a solution with a particularly high degree of technological innovation. Market maturity is an important criterion here. Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Federal Minister of Education and Research, presented this year's prize in the presence of Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
Source: German Trade Fair
