IRTG students and PIs from both the University of Auckland and the University of Stuttgart meet at the University of Stuttgart in Germany for the first IRTG Soft Tissue Robotics summer school. The summer school was mainly comprised of four sections; 1) Demonstrator...

New Zealand’s Royal Society has awarded a Catalyst: Leaders International Fellowship for Professor Alexander Verl for a period of three years, October 2018 to September 2021. The total amount of the award is $160,000. The project related to this award is novel robotic...

The German Academic Exchange service offers a “Postdoctoral Researchers’ Networking Tour” for postdocs working related to Artificial Intelligence who are interested in job opportunities in Germany (academic and non-academic). They offer: - a practice orientated and...

The fifth IRTG online meeting was held on Wednesday, May 23. IRTG students in both Auckland and Stuttgart attended the meeting to discuss and finalize the demonstration week tasks for the summer school in Stuttgart. An industrial and a biomechanics project were...

The teleconference was held on May 3, 2018 at 6:30 PM NZST. The IRTG PhD students in Auckland and IRTG PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and Prof. Oliver Röhrle in Stuttgart were the attendees of the teleconference. There were no presentations by the students at...

The third IRTG breakfast/dinner teleconference between Stuttgart and Auckland was held at 7 PM NZST on Thursday, 19 April, 2018. The attendees of the teleconference were PhD students in Auckland and PhD students along with postdoctoral researchers in Stuttgart. Two...

The second IRTG breakfast/dinner meeting between Stuttgart and Auckland was held at 8 AM on Thursday, 22 March 2018 at ABI. The attendees were IRTG students in Auckland as well as the Stuttgart students (via teleconference). During the meeting, a demonstration session...

A meeting was held at 8 am on Thursday, 22 February 2018 at ABI. The attendees were the PIs and PhD students in Auckland as well as the Stuttgart PhD students and postdoctoral researchers via teleconference. After a brief introduction of the students about themselves...

A meeting was held in Auckland, New Zealand on Monday November 20. The IRTG Auckland team as well as three members of the IRTG Stuttgart team were present at this meeting. Previous IRTG activities were reviewed, the Summer School in June 2018 was planned, and some...

Prof. Xun Xu visited ISW in University of Stuttgart from 16-17 October. A workshop was held on the 16th , where a total of 5 projects were presented and the status of the IRTG programme was briefed. The Auckland team also had Peter Xu present and the Stuttgart had the...