Franka Emika (Accelerator)

Company Description: Even today, robotics remains a technology accessible only to few. The reasons for this are the high costs, difficult programming and the separation of humans and robots by safety fences. So how can this technology be made accessible to the general population? Franka Emika GmbH, a young high-tech company from Munich, wants to solve this problem. To Franka Emika, the ideal robot of the future is a tool which can be used by anybody and which supports humans in carrying out unpleasant or even dangerous tasks. Panda is the first system of an entirely new generation of tools, which incorporates a novel high-resolution, whole-body sense of touch to accomplish most delicate tasks accurately. Franka Emika received the Deutscher Zukunftspreis by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in November 2017 for its first product, the sensitive and easily programmable robotic arm.