Two Funen Researchers Awarded Prestigious Stipend
fyens.dk, 7 February 2013
Anders Blaabjerg Lange, being one of the two Funen-born researchers who on Thursday 7 February 2013 will be awarded this year's EliteForsk price at Glyptoteket in Copenhagen, is 30 years old and a highschool graduate from Odense Tekniske Gymnasium. He is currently an employee of University of Southern Denmark, where he is doing research in elektronics and robotics at The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute.
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Guest Talk on Technology within the Health Service
Faculty of Engineering, USD, 23 January 2013
People, patient courses and technology is the topic when professor Hal Wolf from an American health organisation gives a talk at The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute on Monday 28 January 2013.
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Carmen Boosts Employment
Fyens Stiftstidende, 21 January 2013
The Carmen project will investigate how novel technology can expand the use of robots to an extent that strengthens industry's competitiveness and maintains Danish workplaces.
Research in Novel Robotics to Maintain Danish Workplaces
Faculty of Engineering, 6 December 2012
Researchers from The Maersk Mc-Kinny Moller Institute receive approx. 18.3 million DKK from The Danish Strategic Research Council targeted at novel methods that can expand the use of robots and thus strengthen industry's competitiveness.
Click here for further information (in Danish)
Students Pouring in to Participate in DMTS
Magasinet MTI, oktober 2012
The national meeting for the Danish Medico Technical Organisation (DMTS) beat all records with 67 students from four different educational institutions (including The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute). Obviously, the students enjoyed networking with each other and talk to the industrial exhibitors.
Click here for further information on pages 22 and 23 (in Danish).
Teaching Award for Inspiring Supervision
Faculty of Engineering, 8 October 2012
Last Friday, associate professor Karsten Holm Andersen from the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute received the Teaching Award of the University of Southern Denmark, among other things for his unusually inspiring supervision and for his energetic work on the Formula Student project..
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Annual Celebration Day: Teaching Awards
USD, 5 October 2012
At the Annual Celebration Day five teachers (including associate professor Karsten Holm Andersen from The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute) were each enriched with 25,000 DKK and an honourable title when vice chancelor Jens Oddershede awarded the Teaching Awards - one for each faculty.
Click here for further information (in Danish).
Public Focus on IT Startups in Silicon Valley Will Hopefully Pave the Way for Workplaces in Denmark
Version2, 17 August 2012
Five Danish IT enterprises (one of which is based at the Maersk Institute (ed.)) now get the opportunity to establish networks of contacts and to disseminate knowledge about their technologies in Silicon Valley. The Danish Minister of Commerce and Investments is not afraid that the enterprises will subsequently stay away from Denmark.
Click here for further information (in Danish)
Five IT enterprises on Subsidized Adventure to Silicon Valley
Computerworld, 17 August 2012
Javeleon, which is based at the Maersk Institute, is one of five IT enterprises that have been selected to participate in the SCALEit project, sending them to Silicon Valley 3 times each two weeks filled with guidance, workshops, presentations, events and individual mentor hours offered by successful enterprise founders.
Click here for further information (in Danish).
New Research Project Contributes to Energy-friendly Production of Forage
Faculty of Engineering, USD, 3 August 2012
New PhD project based on collaboration between the Graintec enterprise of Vejse and the Faculty of Engineering will contribute to energy-friendly production methods in terms of fish and animal forage.
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Novel Robotics-based Production Platform Coming Up
Faculty of Engineering, USD, 8 June 2012
Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Southern Denmark, participate in a new innovative production platform financed by both public and private means. The platform is called Fiberlab and has just been awarded 40 million DKK by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
Tomorrow's Hospital
Det Gode Liv, June 2012
With a 90 million DKK research grant University of Southern Denmark has become the centre of the largest welfare technology initiative ever in Denmark - an initiative that can seriously invigorate a whole new industry.
Click here for more information (in Danish - pages 6-11).
Robot Assists with Rehabilitation
Region Syddanmark, 1 June 2012
When fewer hands become available to assist an increasing number of patients, hospitals are compelled to apply new technology thus moving treatments from hospitals to home care. RoboLab, including the Maersk Institute, at University of Southern Denmark work, for instance, with improving rehabilitation after accidents and strokes.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
Electric Racer on its Way
NyViden, May 2012
University of Southern Denmark aims at green technology at this summer's racing events.
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Four from University of Southern Denmark Came in First in PhD Cup
Press and Information, USD, 14 May 2012
The winners, including associate professor Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu from the Maersk Institute, has received the highest grading for dissemination and societal relevance in their PhD theses.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
Scientist Fights with Robots against Hospital Waiting Time
Information.dk, 14 May 2012
Roboticist Thiusius R. Savarimuthu strives to make robots, instead of humans, take blood samples to reduce the waiting time at hospitals. Patients encourage his research where communication and dissemination are just as important aspects as the algorithms that determine the blood collection needle's prick.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
Here are the Winners of the PhD Cup
Information.dk, 14 May 2012
The winners of this year's award contest have been found
Click here for more information (in Danish).
Patient@home Presents Novel Technology
Faculty of Engineering 3 Mayj 2012
SDU participates in a campaign focused on the huge welfare technology project that is being headed by the University. Communication equipment controlled by eye movements, and an apparatus that presents animation films when children with breathing problems use their oxygen masks correctly. Those are two of the five suggestions on future welfare technology that SDU, including the Maersk Institute, will present at the conference World of Health IT to be held in Copenhagen on 7-8 May 2012.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
PhD in 3 Minutes - About Automatic Blood Taking
DR, Danskernes Akademi, 19 April 2012
Imagine that you no longer have to queue for a blood test at the hospital, but instead can sit down at the "RoBlood" machine which will then do the job on behalf of a bioanalyst. Such are the prospects in case the results from this PhD project will be turned into a product. Assistant professor Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu from The Maersk Institute, University of Southern Denmark, tells about "RoBlood".
Click here for more information (in Danish).
Giants Hinder Innovation
DEN OFFENTLIGE SEKTOR.DK 29 March 2012
According to project manager, Kasper Hallenborg, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, big players like KMD and CSC are hindering innovative solutions and new players from getting access to e.g. the health area. It is problematic that they defend their market dominance instead of contributing actively to welcoming new players.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
The World's Biggest Play Laborotory at Funen
Fyens Stiftstidende 27 March 2012
University of Southern Denmark will establish a 60-hectare Active Living Park, which will be the world's most unique. The Maersk Institute will participate in the project.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
Demand: Denmark's Welfare Development Must Be Centred in Odense
Fyens Stiftstidende, 26 March 2012
Funen wishes to be the centre of robotic beds and telemedicine. The development of the Danish welfare technology must take place in Odense. That demand will meet the assisting minister of health Pia Olsen Dyhr (SF) when she will visit Odense next Tuesday.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
In 10 Years' Time Robots Will Be the New Mobile Phones
Ingeniøren 18 March 2012
Robots have changed from being objects that can assist somebody with something, to being objects that can provide something to somebody. The next step will be robots that can do something together with somebody.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
Robot Hands Grasp Their Chances
The Danish Agency for Research and Innovation 5 December 2011
In 2006 the Movebots innovation consortium was awarded a grant by the Danish Council for Technology and Innovation of 12.8 million DKK for development of the world's most advanced grasping robot. The results are a novel, highly technological enterprise, Universal Robots, and lots of experience, all of which has made existing companies such as Grundfos much wiser on the development of future industrial robots.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
Welfare as an Exports Adventure
TV2 Fyn 22 November 2011
Novel welfare technology may develop into an exports adventure. In collaboration with Danish enterprises, University of Southern Denmark will develop new technology aimed at traning and treating patients in their own homes.
Click here for more information (in Danish)(video).
Large-scale SDU Focus on Welfare Technology
SDU News 22 November 2011
University of Southern Denmark will be coordinating a major Danish research initiate in welfare technology. The budget amounts to approx. 190 million DKK.
University of Southern Denmark will be heading a large-scale initiative within welfare technology. The initiative that is aimed at hospitals and eldercare involves a number of international partners, other Danish research insitutions and 29 enterprises.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
190 Million DKK to Research and Innovation in Welfare Technology
Press Release from The Danish Agency for Research and Innovation 21 November 2011
The largest grant so far has been awarded by The Danish Council for Strategic Research and The Danish Council for Technology and Innovation to a SPIR (Strategic Platform for Innovation and Research) project about intelligent society solutions and welfare technology. The 70-million-DKK grant is supplemented by 120 million DKK in co-financing raising the budget to a total of approx. 190 million DKK.
Click here for the full press release.
Big Bag of Money for SDU
TV2 Fyn 18 November 2011
Today, University of Southern Denmark has been awarded one of its largets grants ever.
The Danish Council for Strategic Research and The Danish Council for Technology and Innovation have awarded a 70-million-DKK grant for a project aimed at Welfare Technology within the fields of hospitals and eldercare. The project is titled "Patient-at-home" and involves a number of international partners and 29 companies. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute is project coordinator.
Click here for more information (in Danish)(video).
Rodney Brooks Visits The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute
MMMI News 17 November 2011
In connection with an invitation as a HCA lecturer, Rodney Brooks visited The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute on 17 November 2011 giving a talk titled "Great research and development opportunities in robotics".
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MMMI Researchers Present Novel Software Solutions at the Annual JavaOne Conference in California
News from Faculty of Engineering 29 September 2011
A group of researchers from The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute travel to California on Friday 30 September 2011 to present their novel software solutions at the annual JavaOne conference.
Click here for more information (in Danish only).
Conference on Counterterrorism in Odense 2012
News from Faculty of Engineering 23 September 2011
Next year The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute will host the European Intelligence & Security Informatics Conference on Counterterrorism and Criminology (EISIC 2012).
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Hybridgriberen Awarded Three-star World-novelty Honour
Advanced Technology Foundation 9 September 2011
Since 2009, the researchers behind the Advanced-Technology-Foundation project named "Hybridgriberen" have been developing a novel type of robot hand, the first in the world of its kind having the flexibility of a human hand.
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Wie Roboter das Laufen lernen
jena.OTZ.de 17 August 2011
Noch humpeln sie durch die Jenaer Rosensäle, aber sie kommen voran. Zur Freude von Experten aus Europa und Kanada. Sie treffen sich in der Saalestadt, um ihre Modelle vom Lauflabor der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität analysieren zu lassen.
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Engineers Compete with Field Robots
The Faculty of Engineering 28 June 2011
In the robotics lab (Robolab) the work is intensified to get the robots ready for this year's field-robot competition that takes place in Herning on 30 June – 2 July 2011.
Click here for more information.
Robots Train to Learn More
Weekendavisen, 15 May 2011
»I welcome our new robot rulers« - wrote Ken Jennings in his final comments after having lost to the IBM super computer Watson last February. His comment was meant as a joke, however, he must have been somewhat annoyed realizing that the robot had won 77,000 dollars, three times more the amount won by Ken Jennings, who is normally the top-winning participant of the American quiz show, Jeopardy.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
Researcher Uncovers Terrorists Networks
RUST, May 2011
Researchers at University of Southern Denmark develop intelligent programmes that unravel terrorists networks. Rasmus Rosenqvist Petersen is one of them. He develops computer programmes that are able to catch pieces of intelligence information and put them together to make the information more manageable and targeted towards terrorists networks.
Click here for more information (pages 16-17 in Danish) (PDF-file).
PhD Student Plays with Remote-controlled Robots
metroXpress, 3 May 2011
In films, it is easy to make us believe that a car can think independently of human beings, however, in everyday life this is an extremely complicated matter. PhD student Kjeld Jensen is very much aware of this fact when struggling with robots at University of Southern Denmark.
People’s Choice Award Given to SDU Team
The Faculty of Engineering, 28 January 2011
A team of students from the robotics study line of SDU has won the People’s Choice prize by participating in this year's Venture Cup final.
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Robots to Act on Their Own
Ny Viden, January 2011
The next generation of robots is moving into our homes to contribute to our future welfare. Researchers at SDU participate in three new European projects, which shall pave the way for the influx of the robots.
Click here for more information (pages 20-21 in Danish) (PDF-file).
Engineering student Lasse Lund Sten Jensen has just received a stipend for 15,000 DKK from the Nordea Foundation to help funding his study period in China.
The Faculty of Engineering, 6 January 2011
On 17 January 2011 Lasse Lund Sten Jensen says goodbye to his family and friends to fly out to China where he will be studying at Huazhong University of Science and Technology for one semester.
Click here for more information (in Danish).
FPGAs control SDU-race car at Silverstone
elektronikbranchen.dk, 17 November 2010
Danish students build high-tech car where gear shifts are made by means of the ethernet and FPGAs.
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Nurses to Apply Novel Technology
Mandag Morgen, 15 November 2010
“I will fight tooth and nail to prevent robots invading my work place,” says nurse Anette Bendtsen. She does not understand why one of Horsens Municipality's care centres, Præsthøjgaarden, on a trial basis will let a robot wash the elderly and the demented.
Click here for more information (in Danish) (PDF-file).
Robot on Its Own Feet
videnskab.dk, 10 November 2010
Researchers from University of Southern Denmark have developed robots that can generate new gaits if they loose a body part.
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Robot on Its Own Feet
Ny Viden, October 2010
Researchers from University of Southern Denmark have developed robots that can generate new gaits if they loose a body part.
Click here for more information (in Danish) (pages 18-20) (PDF-file).
Danish Researchers in Health CareVan in USA
Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation, 29 September 2010
Health technology and innovation are items high on the agenda when Danish and American researchers meet with representatives of leading enterprises and hospitals on 24 - 29 October in Silicon Walley. Here they will discuss novel solutions and develop new contacts. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute is represented by Lars Dyhr, Kasper Hallenborg and Yves Demazeau. RoboCluster is represented by Dorthe Kjær Pedersen and Louise Skovborg Just.
Click here for more information.
Shape-shifting robot compensates for damaged limb
New Scientist magazine, issue 2776, 4 September 2010, page 19
For the first time, a modular robot has been shown to adapt when some components fail. Think that shape-shifting robots, or ones that march on no matter how many limbs they lose, are just for Terminator films? Think again. A team of European roboticists have developed software that allows a modular robot to adapt when one part stops working. David Johan Christensen at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, working with Alexander Spröwitz and Auke Ijspeert at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, simulated a quadruped robot constructed from a dozen Roombots – identical rounded robots that have been developed in Lausanne and which can combine to form a variety of modular shapes.
Click here for more information.
Robots and Buildings Become Live
Fyens Stiftstidende, 24 August 2010
Robots that race around in your blood vessels and eat threatening fat formations. Or houses that grow and repair themselves. Funen researchers are in the upper front when international experts report from the boarder country between research and science fiction tonight.
Lego Robot Climbs the Stairs
COMON, 4 August 2010
One of the really big challenges for robotics researchers is to make robots climb and declimb a ladder. It is, therefore, rather impressing that a guy, who calls himself 222DOC, has made a Logo Mindstorms NXCT robot walk up and down stairs, says robotics researcher Kasper Støy from The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute at University of Southern Denmark.
Students from USD Show Muscles at Silverstone
Faculty of Engineering, 21 July 2010
For the third year in a row students from USD (including students studying robotics at the Maersk Institute) participated in a competition about designing, constructing, presenting and driving the best car over the goal line of the Silverstone Racing Circuit in England.
Click here for more information on the event and on the
Formula Student Project and the USD Vikings Team involved. For further information, please contact associate professor
Karsten Holm Andersen.
ASONAM 2010
This international conference will be held at SDU, Odense, on 9-11 August, featuring a symposium and a workshop on advances in social networks analysis and mining.
Click here for more information.
MMMI's Cycling Team Won Prize
In SDU's internal competition "We Bike to Work 2010" MMMI's team came first in the category "The SDU team that biked most days per participant". Mr. Per Overgaard Nielsen, University Director, will present the winning team with the prize on Tuesday 15 June 2010 at 10:30 in room 078.
Funen Foods Get Robotic Assistance
Fyens Stiftstidende, 17 June 2010
Robotics experts from Funen, Southern Jutland and Northern Germany will receive six million Danish kroner to develop robots for the foods industry in the regions bordering the southern part of Denmark and the northern part of Germany.
Click here for further information on the project.
More Young Men in Training
TV2 Nyhederne 11 June 2010
An increasing number of young male immigrants enroll in higher education programmes - e.g. in the field of robotics at The Maersk Institute.
RoBlood Introduced to the Danish Queen
Together with Kolding School of Design associate professor Anders Stengaard Sørensen and PhD student Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu, both representing The Maersk Institute, showed how ideas originated in robotics and design have joined forces in the RoBlood project during the Danish queen's visit to the city of Kolding on 7 June 2010. Click here for more information on the visit (in Danish).
Granting of Oticon Stipends
Anders Blaabjerg Lange and Rasmus Hasle Andersen, both students of robotics at The Maersk Institute, have each been awarded an Oticon stipend of 100,000 DKK.
Robot at Waterfront Festival
The robot that handled bricks during the waterfront festival on 28 may 2010 in Odense has been constructed by two Master's students from The Maersk Institute, Emil Pedersen and Oluf Skov Nielsen, who both are about to finalise their robotics studies. They have developed the software for the robot as part of their thesis-report work. Click here for further information.
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute Introduces Danish Robot Research at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai
On 8 May 2010 professor Norbert Krüger gave a talk on "Brains and Machines" at the Danish EXPO exhibition area in Shanghai, China. In addition, he introduced the Institute's research on robotics to students from Shanghai University.
Click here for presentation (PPT-file).
Researchers from The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute Win International Robot Competition
The event took place in connection with the 2010 ICRA Contingency Challenge, which was held in Anchorage, Alaska, on 4-6 May 2010. Click here for competition details (in Danish).
Danish Enterprises to Survive Through Highly Flexible Production Facilities
Ingeniøren 23 April 2010
A number of universities and enterprises will create a new type of production plant using robots and flexible modules, making it possible to rearrange the production lines lightning fast. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute is one of the participants of this very interesting project.
Click here for more information
Soft Engineers
Fyens Stiftstidende, 29 March 2010
Preparations are at full speed to get a new SDU education programme as MSc(Eng) in Welfare Technology ready for semester start August 2010.
First Prototype of Future Concrete Construction
dr.dk tv 3 March 2010
It is easy to to combine production and the environment -
just click here.
Concrete as we know it is solid and rectangular. However, a future and more environmentally-friendly version is already being moulded.
Project Paving the Way for a Revolution
Press Release 15 March 2010
Associate Professor Peter Eggenberger Hotz is partner to a 3-year EU-funded project on combing production and informations processing in an artificial subcellular matrix, which imitates living cells found in plants, animals and humans.
Click here for the full story (in Danish)
Robot Imitates Lizard's Directional Hearing Abilities
Ingeniøren 14 March 2010
Innovation company situated at Funen has developed a robot that can make out the exact direction of a sound - just like a lizard.
Click here for the full story (in Danish)
Robot Can Determine the Exact Origin of Sound
Ingeniøren 12 March 2010
Whistle to the robot and it turns its nose directly towards you. Lizard Technology and University of Southern Denmark have developed a robot that can imitate lizards' hearing ability and use it to direct audio inputs.
Click here to watch the robot work
New Company Gains Success by Listening
Ny Viden March 2010
The newly-established spinn-off company, Lizard Technology ApS, applies research performed by scientists from The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute (amongst others) on lizards' magnificent hearing abilities. The findings can be used for products aimed at monitoring and protection. Professor John Hallam is one of the entrepreneurs behind this success story.
Click here for more information in Danish (pages 16-17) (PDF-file)
Novel software provides industrial robots with greater freedom
university technology network February 2010
Based on automatic computation methods and novel software developed at The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute 6-axis industrial robots may now exploit optimally their working space. The software is being prepared for real-world implementationn and patenting. Besides, further research development is being performed in a new EU-funded project,
TailorCrete.
Click here for more information (PDF-file)
Robot Success Requires Prioritising and more People
Ingeniøren 12 February 2010
The Danish robotics development scene is known for the mathematical modelling behind the control of the robots and for transfer of technology from the world of reserach to the world of industry. However, Denmark may lose momentum, if the number of active researchers fail to increase.
Clik here for the full article about the Maersk Institute's cooperation with trade and industry (in Danish)
Innovation Shall Bring Ease to Everyday Life of Chronically Ill Persons
Danish Research Council 22 January 2010
A new partnership among researchers and public and private players will develop new facilities so that persons with diabetes and other chronic illnesses can have a better life.
Click here for the full press release (in Danish).
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute is one of the many institutions that participate in the project, which has been named ’Innovative Solutions for Chronically Ill Persons’. The project has just been granted 23 million DKK by the Danish Research Council for development of solutions within the fields of cardiovascular diseases, COPD, diabetes, and muscle and bone diseases.
The Maersk Institute is involved in two subprojects within the field of COPD, which stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. As partner in one of the subprojects, the Institute's researchers will develop a multi-agent-based platform for applications and services aimed at COPD patients, whereas the researchers that are involved in the other subproject will develop intelligent solutions based on findings achieved by monotoring the patients' activities and behaviour.
New Degree Programmes in Welfare Technology and Learning and Experience Technology
Faculty of Engineering 22 December 2009
Interdisciplinarity and vision are prominent characteristics of the two new degree programmes to be launched at The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, Faculty of Engineering, by September 2010.
Click here for details (in Danish only) on
Master in Welfare Technology and
Learning and Experience Technology.
New Brochure on The Maersk Institute
16 December 2009
The brochure introduces some of the many research and education activities currently performed at The Maersk Institute.
Click here to read or downlown the brochure (PDF-file)
PhD Students on Their Way to UC Berkeley
Faculty of Engineering 11 December 2009
Two PhD students from The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute are going to one of the best universities in the world, UC Berkeley in California, as visiting researchers.
Click here for more information
Robots Learn to Grasp Objetcs
University of Liege 8 December 2009:
An anthropomorphic robot that is able to move with ease in our environment and to interact with it. A robot that can understand our orders and carry them out. An untiring and reliable mechanical “slave”, in fact. This old dream of humanity, which have inspired so many science-fiction authors, is perhaps not so far away. Within the framework of the EU-funded project PACO-PLUS, professor Justus Piater of the University of Liege develops protocols that will teach robots to capture objects.
Click here for more details (in French)
Fell Down 26 Metres: Is Now Able to Walk and Run
TV2 News 8 December 2009:
11 years ago Allan Lauridsen survived a fall of 26 metres. The doctors had no doubts that Allan Lauridsen would spend the rest of his life in a wheel chair. Since then he has had major surgery 15 times and been fighting to recover by means of a special training scheme. Today - against all odds - he is able to walk as well as run. Assisted by Danish researchers and a robot, he now wishes to introduce his training scheme to others in the same situation.
Meet Allan Lauridsen in this video (in Danish)
Shaping the Future
Communications of the ACM November 2009:
To create shape-shifting robotic ensembles, researchers need to teach micro-machines to work together.
Click here for the full story
University of Southern Denmark Rearms Against Terrorism
www.sdu.dk - 14 October 2009:
The first anti-terrorism research lab in Europe – Counter-terrorism Research Lab – has become reality at the University of Southern Denmark.
Click here for more information