Another Team of Founders from the Institute Succeeded at Nationwide Competition

After comnovo GmbH, the first spin-off of the institute, won the IKT innovativ start-up prize from the Federal Ministry of Economics in 2013, Smart Robotic Systems GmbH, another spin-off, now won the first prize of the competition "Digitale Innovationen“. The founders and CNI-Alumni Dr.-Ing. Niklas Goddemeier and Sebastian Rohde received the prize on September 1, 2017 at the International Consumer Electronics Fair in Berlin, handed over by Dirk Wiese, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy. Based on results from perennial research, the Smart Robotic Systems - an extended system for unmanned flight devices SKIDER - uses open interfaces to enable a made-to-measure integration of unmanned flight systems for various applications in different areas, such as catastrophe prevention, energy sector or agriculture. The spin-off got supported by an EXIST funding of the Federal Ministry of Economics.