• Industrial robotics and automation – especially solutions for small- and medium sized companies
• Service robotics (B2B)
• Health robotics – Technologies for an independent life
Robotdalen’s principal role lies in being an accelerator of development and enabling commercial success. Thus the competition has increased its focus on the innovative aspect. To bolster this aspect, extra points will be awarded to contestants who have considered how to commercialize their ideas and how the resulting products can create new user benefits in society or in industry.
Maximum three winners share 33,000 Euro. Each winner will receive 11,000 Euro of which 4,400 Euros is prize money and 6,600 Euros is offered to develop the concept in cooperation with Robotdalen.
Applications should be submitted no later than November 1, 2016, and will be evaluated by an external jury with extensive commercial competence.
The winners will be invited to Västerås, Sweden, for two days in February 2017 (dates TBD) for a prize ceremony as well as development workshops together with Robotdalen.
The first Robotdalen Innovation Award was awarded in 2012 (between 2007-2011 it was the Robotdalen Scientific Award). Previous prize winners include Bioservo Technologies, Inerventions, Tinkerbots, Furhat Robotics, openbionics.org, Odico Formwork Robotics and CRG.
For more information about the Robotdalen Innovation Award:
www.robotdalen.se/en/robotdalen-innovation-award
