Microrobotics and Control Engineering

News/Events/Press

2013

  • Claas Diederichs and Prof. Fatikow are organizing Special Session on Robotics for Micro/Nano Scales at the International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT), Jeju Island, South Korea (28-30.10.13)
  • Prof. Fatikow is a Keynote Speaker at 17th International Conference on Mechatronics Technology (ICMT), Jeju Island, South Korea (15-18.10.13)
  • 3rd International Conference on Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale (3M-NANO), 26 - 30 Aug 2013, Suzhou, China.
    http://3m-nano.org,  Call for Papers
  • Prof. Fatikow offers a half-day tutorial “Robotics and Automation for Applications at Nanoscale” at 13th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), Beijing, China (05-08.08.13)
  • Prof. Fatikow offers a half-day tutorial “Industrial Robotics and Automation for Applications at Nanoscale” at 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Reykjavik, Iceland (29-31.07.13)
  • Seminar Talk by Dr. Frédéric Zamkotsian, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Université de Provence, Marseille, France: "MOEMS devices in next generation astronomical instrumentation" (28.05.13)
  • Olaf C.Haenssler attended the workshop "Mikrosystemtechnik und –elektronik in der Raumfahrt", DLR, Bonn, Germany(16.05.13)
  • Claas Diederichs and Tobias Tiemerding visited Tampere University of Technology, Micro- and Nanosystems Research Group, Finland, for joint experiments and discussions about future collaboration (01.-04.05.13).

    Photo (l.to.r.): M.v.Essen, J.Hirvonen, C.Diederichs and T.Tiemerding

  • Cheng-Chun Huang and Duo-Ru Chang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan visited AMiR.
    (17.04.13)

    Photo (l.to.r.): Duo-Ru Chang, Malte Bartenwerfer, Sören Zimmermann and Cheng-Chun Huang

  • Manuel Mikczinski visited Tampere University of Technology, Micro- and Nanosystems Research Group, Finland, for joint experiments.
    (06.-13.03.13)

    Photo: M.Mikczinski, J.Hirvonen, K.Latifi, P.Saketi


  • Prof. Fatikow visited South China University of Technology, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Guangzhou, China, National Taiwan University (NTU), Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Physics, Taipei, Academia Sinica, Taipei, National Tsing Hua University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Hsin Chu, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsin Chu, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Department of Microelectronics Engineering, Kaohsiung, Metal Industries R&D Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and City University of Hong Kong, Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities. (02-22.03.13)
  • AMiR is joining the CoSynth GmbH & Co. KG for a demonstration of the OFFIS Automation Framework at the Embedded World 2013 (26.-28.02.2013). The OFFIS Automation Framework enables rapid prototyping of vision-based automation systems. Visit Hall 4, Booth 101 for further information. (25.02.13)
  • Prof. Sören Peik, Institute of Aerospace Technology and Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, visited AMiR. (21.02.13)
  • Seminar Talk by Prof. Ruxu Du, Dept. of Mechanical and Automation Engineering Chinese University of Hong Kong: "The Science and Art of Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis in Manufacturing"
    (18.02.13)



  • Dr.  Bernard Legrand, Dr. Didier Theron, Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN), Lille, and Dr. Jean-Paul Salvetat, Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France visited AMiR for joint experiments. (16.-17.01.13) 
  • Prof. Fatikow visited Sungkyunkwan University, Intelligent Systems Research Center and SKKU Advanced Institute on Nanotechnology (SAINT), Seoul, South Korea, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Dept. of Robotics Engineering, Daegu, South Korea, Soochow University, Robotics and Microsystems Center, Suzhou, China, Nankai University, College of Information Technical Science, Tianjin, China, University of Tianjin, Centre for Micro/Nano Manufacturing Technology and State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology, China, South China University of Technology, School of Mechanical and Automotive Eng., Guangzhou, China, City University of Hong Kong, Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities. (06.12.12-04.01.13)

    • 2012

    • Prof. Fatikow is a Keynote Speaker at DGIST Global Innovation Festival held in Daegu, South Korea (05-08.12.12)
    • Manuel Mikczinski is a Keynote Speaker at the First Workshop of the new COST Action FP1105 held in Stockholm, Sweden (03.-04.12.12)
    • Florian Krohs and Christioph Reinicke visited Changchun University of Science and Technology (CUST), Centre for Nano Metrology and Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), The State Key Laboratory of Robotics and
      Systems,       China
      (19.11.2012-14.12.2012)


    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Stéphane Régnier,MAP research division Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotique (ISIR), Paris, France: "Microrobotics, microrobots: interactive systems for small scales" (27.11.12)

    • Volkmar Eichhorn, Malte Bartenwerfer and Sören Zimmermann visited University of Cambridge, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE), Electrical Engineering Department, UK. Volkmar Eichhorn offered a seminar talk on “Robotic Manipulation, Characterization and Processing on the Nanoscale”.
      (20.-21.11.12)
    • Prof. Fatikow offered a graduated course of lectures on automated nanohandling at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering (05-16.11.12)
    • Prof. Fatikow is a Keynote Speaker at International Conference of the Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology and at International Workshop on Innovation and Commercialization of Micro & Nanotechnology, Hangzhou, China (04-07.11.12)

    • Olaf C.Haenssler attended the 8th ESA Round Table on Micro and Nano Technologies for Space Applications, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands (15.10.-18.10.12)

    • Prof. Fatikow visited University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Honolulu, USA. He offered a seminar talk on AMiR research activities. (12.10.12) 

    • Volkmar Eichhorn participated in the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012), Vilamoura, Portugal, giving a talk and chairing the micro-nano scale automation session.
      (07.-12.10.12)
    • Seminar Talk by Dr. Tawfique Hasan, Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK: "Applications of Graphene Liquid Dispersions in Optoelectronics"
      (15.10.12)

    • News (German): "Hochrangige Delegation aus China an der Universität empfangen"
      lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite von der Pressestelle Universität Oldenburg (04.10.12)

      Photo: Dr.A.Sill, Prof.S.Fatikow,Prof.B.Simon, Prof.H.Yu und Prof.Z.Wang
    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Michaël Gauthier, Automation and Micromechatronics Department (AS2M), FEMTO-ST Institute, Besancon, France: "Overview of the activities in micro-nano-robotics in FEMTO-ST institute" (21.09.12)
      Photo (l.to.r.): C.Diederichs, Prof.E.Piat, Dr.V.Eichhorn, Prof.P.Lutz and Prof.M.Gauthier at AMiR Labs
    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Dr. Vladimir A. Basiuk, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: "Carbon nanotubes and their applications"
      (10.09.12)

      Photo (l.to.r.): Prof.V.A.Basiuk, Prof.E.V.Basiuk and Dr.V.Eichhorn at AMiR Labs
    • News (German): "3M-NANO-Konferenz in China"
      lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite von der Pressestelle Universität Oldenburg (04.09.12)

    • Prof. Fatikow is the General Chair of the International Conference on Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale (3M-NANO),
      29 Aug - 1 Sept 2012, Xian, China. http://3m-nano.org , Call for Participation and Call for Papers

      Photo: 3M-NANO Award Ceremony

      • Prof. Fatikow offered a graduated course of lectures on automated nanohandling at Changchun University of Science and Technology, Centre for Nano Metrology and Manufacturing Technologies, China (13-24.08.12)
    • Prof. Fatikow is a Keynote Speaker at nanoMan2012, 3rd International  Conference on Nano-Manufacturing held in Tokyo, Japan (25.-27.07.12) 
    • Prof. Fatikow visited University of Tokyo, RCAST, Japan, Meijo University, School of Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, South China University of Technology, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Guangzhou, Peking University, Institute of Microelectronics, China, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Dept. of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, China, Southwest Jiao Tong University, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Chengdu, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang Institute of Automation. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities. (23.07-05.09.12)
    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Youfu Li, Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong : "Motion tracking from visual sensing"
      (19.07.12)

      Photo (l.to.r.): S.Zimmermann, C.Dahmen and Prof.Y.Li at AMiR Labs

    • Seminar Talk by Dr. Quan Zhou, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland : "Fusion of robotics and self-assembly for microsystem integration"

      (17.07.12)

    • Dr.Wei-Han Wang, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and Mr.Tao Yue, Nagoya University, Japan visited AMiR.
      (13.07.12)

      Photo (l.to.r.): Dr.V.Eichhorn, Dr.W.-H.Wang, T.Yue and C.Diederichs

    • Delegation of Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN), Lille, France visited AMiR.
      (12.07.12)


    • Seminar Talk by Dr. Bernard Legrand, Nano and MicroSYStems (NAM6), Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, Lille, France : "MEMS resonators at IEMN: a 12-year story from signal processing devices to Atomic Force Microscopy sensors" (12.07.12)
    • C. Dahmen and O.C.Haenssler stayed at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
      (27.06.-03.07.12)
      Photo: Dr. X.Xia, Prof. Y.Wang, O.C.Haenssler, C.Dahmen, Prof. T.Li and H.Zeng
    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Jean-Marc Breguet, Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique SA (CSEM SA), Neuchâtel, Switzerland: "Overview of CSEM activities with focus on mechatronics development" (21.06.12)
      Photo (l.to.r.): Dr.V.Eichhorn, Prof. Fatikow, Prof. Breguet and C.Diederichs
    • Prof. Xianmin Zhang, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, visited AMiR.
      (11.06.12)

      Photo (l.to.r.): Prof. Fatikow, Prof. Zhang, C.Diederichs, Dr.A.Sill and Dr.V.Eichhorn


    • Prof. Fatikow visited in France University of Orléans, PRISME Institute, Bourges, and FEMTO-ST Institute, AS2M department, Besançon. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities. (04-06.06.12)
    • C. Dahmen and O.C.Haenssler stayed at Zhejiang University, Institute of Microelectronics and Photoelectronics, Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Hangzhou, China.

      (04.06.-27.06.12)

      Photo: Dr. L.Yidong, Dr. H.Wang, O.C.Haenssler, C.Dahmen and Prof. Z.Jin surrounded by newly examinated PhD´s
    • Prof. Fatikow is Invited Professor at University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics (01.-30.06.12)

    • Congratulations from AMiR team to Tim Wortmann, who successfully passed his PhD examination!

      (30.05.12)



    • The first technical meeting of the PowerBonds Project was held in Oldenburg.
      (29.-30.05.12)



    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Pasi Kallio, Tampere University of Technology, Finland :
       "Automatic Microsystems in Handling and Characterization of Micro-scale Biosamples and Materials" (30.05.12)


    • Prof.Dr.A.Dietzel, Head of the Institute for Microtechnology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany visited AMiR.
      (07.05.12)

      Photo (l.to.r.): C.Diederichs, Dr.A.Sill, Prof.Dr.A. Dietzel, Dr.V.Eichhorn


    • Dr.  Raphaël Passas, Laboratoire Génie des Procédés Papetiers (LGP2), Grenoble INP-Pagora, France visited AMiR for joint experiments.
      (18.04.12)

      Photo (l.to.r.): M. Mikczinski, Dr.R. Passas and K. Ikououbel
    • Kenza Ikououbel, Laboratoire Génie des Procédés Papetiers (LGP2), Grenoble INP-Pagora, France, is visiting AMiR for joint experiments on paper fibres inside SEM. (11.-20.04.12)
    • Prof. Fatikow offered a graduated course of lectures on automated nanohandling at South China University of Technology, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Guangzhou (02-13.04.12)
    • Prof. Fatikow visited South China University of Technology, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Guangzhou, Advanced Material Research Center, Guangzhou, City University of Hong Kong, Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Taipei, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, Instrument Technology Research Center, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, National Cheng Kung University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tainan, Taiwan, Industrial Technology Research Institute, MEMS Research  Division, Tainan, Taiwan, Tianjin University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, China. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities. (19.03-12.04.12)

      Photo: Visit to Instrument Technology Research Center, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, with Prof. Din Ping Tsai, Director General (mid), Dr. Fong-Thi Chen, Deputy Director General (l.), and Dr. Chi-Hung Huang, Deputy Director General (r.)











      Photo: with Prof. Shuo Hung Chang, National Taiwan University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Taipei




    • Keynote talk by Prof. Fatikow at the 7th International Conference on Micro-Manufacturing, Evanston, IL, USA
      Title "Robot-based Nanohandling and Automation" (12.-14.03.12)
    • Prof. Fatikow visited Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute, NanoRobotics Lab (08-11.03.12)
    • SAT1 TV reported about AMiR-Research presented at CeBIT 2012. (07.03.2012)
    • News: "FIBLYS – a "Swiss-knife" Nano-tool" A No.1 success story. See the website of the EC Research & Innovation  (07.03.12)

    • News: AMiR attended the CeBIT 2012 as an exhibitor, Hannover, Germany
      Demonstrator:"Automated Nanorobotics"
      Hall 26, Booth C50
      (06.-10.03.12)






    • Prof. Hongmei Xu, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, China, Prof. Tie Li and Anran Gao, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, visited AMiR for joint experiments.
      (01.02.-28.02.12)
      Photo (l.to.r.): Prof. H.Xu, M.Bartenwerfer, A.Gao and S.Zimmermann
    • "PowerBonds," the recently funded ERA-NET project, was kick started on February 9th, 2012, at the premises of VTT in Espoo, Finland. Learn more about the project "Enhancement of Fibre and Bond Strength Properties for Creating Added Value in Paper Products" - PowerBonds - on the project-website: http://www.wwnet-powerbonds.eu .
    • Prof. Fatikow appointed as a member of the advisory board of Robotics Engineering Department at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea. After Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, DGIST is the second high-profile research oriented university in South Korea established by the government. The concept is to develop an international center of convergence science and technology, with highly advanced technological research facilities and research-oriented education. DGIST opened graduate program in 2011. (07.02.12)
    • Seminar Talk by PD Dr. Andrey Turchanin, University of Bielefeld, Germany:
       "From organic monolayers to carbon nanomembranes and graphene with tunable structural, chemical and electrical properties " (06.02.12)


    • Volkmar Eichhorn and Michael Weigel-Jech visited Institut d´ Electronique, de Microelectronique et de Nanotechnologie, Micro and Nano Systems Department, Lille, France. (24.01.12)
    • Manuel Mikczinski assigned as Management Committee Member of the recently realised COST Action FP1105: Understanding wood cell wall structure, biopolymer interaction and composition: implications for current products and new material innovation. (15.01.12)
    • Prof. Fatikow visited in China South China University of Technology, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Guangzhou, Xi’an Technological University, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Research Institute of Micro-/Nanometer Science and Technology. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities. (18.12.11-10.01.12)
      • Photo: with Prof. Yuelin Wang, Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China







    • Prof. Fatikow elected as a fellow of the International Society for Nanomanufacturing (ISNM). ISNM is an international nonprofit organization launched in 2008. The purpose is to promote nanomanufacturing technology and to serve the fast growing international community in this area. ISNM promotes technological innovation by encouraging collaboration and networking among peers, progressing education of nanotechnology on all levels of society, and publishing journals, books, and newsletters of the latest developments in nanomanufacturing. (16.01.12)
    • News (German): "Oldenburger Informatiker in den Vorstand des Technischen Komitees der IEEE Gesellschaft berufen"
      lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite von der Pressestelle Universität Oldenburg (06.01.12)
    • Prof. Fatikow appointed as Chair of IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Micro/Nano Robotics and Automation (06.01.12)

    2011

    • Prof. Fatikow offered a graduated course of lectures on automated nanohandling at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (21.12.11-07.01.12) 
    • Manuel Mikczinski participated in the kick-off meeting of the project "Couplage ESEM / microrobotique pour l'étude de la deformation des fibres cellulosiques" (Study of the deformation mechanisms of cellulosic fibres by coupling microrobotic tools and environmental scanning electron microscopy) at the Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés Papetiers (LGP2), INP-Pagora, Grenoble, France (15.12. - 16.12.2011)

    • Dr. Sabine Heinemann, Biofibre Processing, VTT, Espoo, Finland visited AMiR for joint experiments on wood and wood fibres.

      (28.11.-30.11.11)

      Photo (l.to.r.): M.Mikczinski and Dr. S.Heinemann

    • Dr.C. Edeler and H.X. Nguyen participated and contributed to the German-Russian Workshop "Theoretical foundations, applications and problems of methods of reduction of dimensionality" at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. (22.-24.11.11)
    • Daniel Jasper won the Research Award 2011 of the Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg (UGO) for his PhD thesis.

      lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite der Nordwest-Zeritung und in Einblicke (16.11.11)

      Photo (l.to.r.): M.Wefers (President of the UGO), D.Jasper and B.Simon (President of the University of Oldenburg)


    • Congratulations from AMiR team to Christoph Edeler, who successfully passed his PhD examination!

      (16.11.11)






    • Manuel Mikczinski visited Carnegie Mellon University, Nanorobotics Lab, Pittsburgh, USA. (4.11.-13.11.11)
    • Plenary Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the International Symposium on Micro-Nano Mechatronics and Human Science , Nagoya, Japan
      Title "Robot-based Automation on the Nanoscale" (06.-09.11.11)
    • Prof. Fatikow served as a judge at the International Micro Robot Maze Contest (MAZE 2011), Nagoya, Japan. (06.11.11)

      Photo: Japanese tea ceremony in Koshoji-Temple, Nagoya








    • Prof. Fatikow visited the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dept. of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, and City University of Hong Kong, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities. (30.10.-04.11.11)
    • Plenary Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the First International Symposium on Medical Robotics, Daegu, South Korea
      Title "Robot-based Micro-Nano Handling"
      (27.-28.10.11)

      Photo: On the symposium banquet



      Photo: Greetings by a friendly robot at Incheon airport in Seoul








    • Prof. Fatikow visited in South Korea Daegu Gyungbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Department of Robotics Engineering, and Kyungpook National University, Daegu, School of Electronics Engineering. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities
      (25.-26.10.11)
      Photo: Reception by DGIST president, Prof.Sung-Chul Shin
    • Prof. Fatikow is one of the winners of the national "1000 Scholars Program" in China. He was nominated by the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, and is the only winner at SCUT in 2011. The "1000 Scholars Program" is regarded as a major effort of China's talent recruitment plans. Starting in 2008, China has planned to spend five to ten years importing overseas high-level researches into national key innovation programs, the pivotal disciplines and key laboratories, with focus on the development of high-tech industries. 
    • Manuel Mikczinski visited the Paper and Fibre Institute, Trondheim, Norway, for joint experiments in the COST Action FP0802 framework. (10.10.-19.10.11)
    • Prof. Fatikow visited Tampere University of Technology, Finland, Micro- and Nanosystems Research Lab, Institute of Automation and Control. (01.-04.10.11)
    • Claas Diederichs visited the group of Prof. Dan Popa, Next Generation Systems at the University of Texas at Arlington and held talks about Automated Nanorobotic Systems and AMiR Research Activities. (19.-27.10.2011)
    • Daniel Jasper won the Research Award 2011 of the Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg for his PhD thesis. (21.09.11)
      lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite der Nordwest-Zeritung (16.11.11)

    • Prof. Fatikow and Prof. Wang Zuobin (Changchun University of Science and Technology, China) are the Founding Chairs of the new annual International Conference on Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale (3M-NANO). The conference was held for the first time on 29 Aug - 2 Sept 2011 in Changchun, China.
      http://3m-nano.org  and Call for Papers
      Photo: Opening ceremony at 3M-NANO 2011

    • Prof. Fatikow stayed as an adjunct professor at Changchun University of Science and Technology, China, Center for Nano Metrology and Manufacturing Technologies. He offered a graduated course of lectures on automated nanohandling. (22.08-17.09.11)

      Photo: with CNMMT professors and students
    • Prof. Fatikow visited Shenyang Institute of Automation of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He offered a seminar talk on AMiR research activities (13-14.09.11)

    • Prof. Yanling Tian is staying with AMiR as a Humboldt scholar.
      Prof. Tian is Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China (01.09.-28.02.13).

    • The poster “Nanorobotic enabling technologies for carbon nanoelectronics” presented by V.Eichhorn, won the "pi"-Award at the "Carbonhagen 2011" symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark (19.-21.08.10)

    • Cover picture from the Journal of Advanced Microscopy Research showing AMiR-Research results

      (25.08.11)












    • Seminar Talk by Dr.rer.nat.habil. Ilja Kruglikov, Wellcomet GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany: "LDM - neue Behandlungstechnologie in der Medizin" (17.08.11) 

    •
      Dr.rer.nat.habil. Ilja Kruglikov, Wellcomet GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany, visited AMiR to discuss possible collaboration projects.
      (16-17.08.11)








    • The paper “Towards Automated AFM-based Nanomanipulation in a Combined Nanorobotic AFM/HRSEM/FIB System” submitted by V. Eichhorn, S. Fatikow, R. Tunnell, U. Mick, C. Stolle, C. Diederichs, D. Jasper and M. Bartenwerfer, won the Best Paper Award in Automation at the IEEE ICMA 2011,Bejing, China (10.08.11)

    • Prof. Hyungsuck Cho is staying with AMiR as a Humboldt scholar.
      Prof. Cho is DGIST Chair Professor, Department of Robotics Engineering, Daegu Gyungbuk Institute of Science and Technology and E-Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Dae Jeon, South Korea (01.-31.08.11).

    • Prof. Nguyen Phong Dien, Director Vietnamese-German Center, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam, visited AMiR to discuss further development of joint research activities. (15.07.11)





    • Dr. Alexey Savenko and Izzet Yildiz,
      Nanointegration Group, DTU Nanotech, Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark visited AMIR for joint experiments

      Photo: (l. to r.) M. Bartenwerfer, Dr.A.Savenko, Dr.V. Eichhorn, I.Yildiz and F.Krohs (06.07.-08.07.11) 
    • Michael Weigel-Jech and Olaf C.Haenssler visited the group of Prof. Antoine Ferreira, École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs, Institut Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes, Mécanique et Energétique, Bourges, France (16.-21.06.2011)  

    • Prof. Fatikow visited in Mexiko Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Advanzed Studies and Research Center (CINVESTAV), Mexico-City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico-City, and on Cuba La Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, und Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE), Havanna. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities

    • Prof. Fatikow, Prof. Dan O. Popa (The Univ. of Texas at Arlington, TX, U.S.A.), Prof. Philippe Lutz (FEMTO-ST, UMR CNRS, Besancon, France), and Prof. Jack G. Zhou (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.) are organizing Symposium on Micro-Nano Assembly Systems, Metrology, Instrumentation and Their Applications as a part of 2011 ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC), Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A. (13.-17.06.11)
    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Jayantha Katupitiya, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia: "Use of v-disparity image for traversable terrain identification" (14.06.11)
    • Prof. Jayantha Katupitiyah, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, visited AMiR to conduct experiments within a joint DAAD project. (13-16.06.11)

    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Nicolas Chaillet, FEMTO-ST Institute CNRS/UFC/ENSMM/UTBM, Besançon, France: 
      "Microrobotics at FEMTO-ST: from mechatronics to micromanipulation"

      (06.06.11)



    • Congratulations from AMiR team to Daniel Jasper, who successfully passed his PhD examination!

      (06.06.11)






    • AMiR-Research on NANO-TV video series by European Research Media Center (01.06.2011) 

    • News (German): Spende eines Rasterelektronenmikroskops von AMiR an die FH für Wirtschaft und Technik, Oldenburg (01.06.11)
    • Invited Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the German-Chinese Workshop on Nanomanufacturing and Nanotribology, Berlin, Germany
      Title "Robot-based Nanohandling" (30.05-01.06.11) 

    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Tie Li and Yuelin Wang, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China: 
      "MEMS activity in Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences"

      (30.05.11)

    • Visitors: Prof. Yuelin Wang and Prof.Tie Li, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

      Photo: (l. to r.) Dr.Huiquan Wang, Prof.Yuelin Wang, Prof.Tie Li and Malte Bartenwerfer

      (30.-31.05.11)
    • Prof. Fatikow and Daniel Jasper are organizing Special Session on Robot-based Automation of Nanohandling at the IEEE International Symposium on Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM 2011), Tampere, Finland (25.-27.05.11)
    • Invited Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the 4th European Conference for Clinical Nanomedicine, Basel, Switzerland
      Title "Nanorobotics – Medical Reality tomorrow?" (23-25.05.2011)
    • News(German): "Große Pläne mit kleinsten Robotern"
      lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite der Nordwest-Zeitung (04.05.11) 

    • Research stay by Dr. Huiquan Wang, with a scholarship provided by Zhejiang University, China
      Dr. Wang is with the Institute of Microelectronics and Photoelectronics, Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
      (01.05-15.08.11)
    • Invited Talk by Dr. Volkmar Eichhorn at the Hannover Messe during the MicroNanoTec Forum 2011, Hannover, Germany. Title " Micro-Nano-Integration: Nanorobotic Handling and Characterization of Nanomaterials for Device Prototyping" (05.04.2011)
    • Invited Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the Max-Planck Symposium on Intelligent Systems, Tübingen-Stuttgart, Germany
      Title "Robot-based Nanohandling and Automation" (10.-12.04.2011)
    • News (German): "Zehn Jahre Nanotechnik und Mikrorobotik"
      lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite von der Pressestelle Universität Oldenburg (01.04.11)

    • Talk by Manuel Mikczinski at the Final Conference of the COST Action E54 "Characterisation of the fine structure and properties of papermaking fibres using new technologies"
      Title "Micro- and Nano-Robotic Manipulation and Characterisation of Paper-making Fibres and its Components", Cambridge, UK
      (22.03.2011)

    • Prof. Fatikow visited Tohoku University, Dept. of Bioengineering and Robotics, Sendai, Kagawa University, Intelligent Mechanical Systems Eng. Dept., Takamatsu, Osaka University, Dept. of Systems Innovation, Nagoya University, Dept. of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering and Dept. of Mechanical Science & Engineering, Toyo University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo, and Tokyo University, Dept. of Precision Engineering. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities (23.02-10.03.11) 

      Photo: at Tohoku University with the President of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Prof. Kazuhiro Kosuge








      Photo: at Kagawa University with the Founding Chair of IEEE ICMA Conference, Editor in Chief of Int. Journal of Mechatronics and Automation, Prof. Shuxiang Guo







      Photo: at Osaka University with the Editor-in-Chief of Int. Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Prof. Tatsue Arai







      Photo: at Nagoya University with the Director of Center for Micro-Nano Mechatronics, Prof. Toshio Fukuda, and the Head of Biorobotics Lab, Prof. Fumihito Arai, after the seminar talk







    • Visitor: Prof. Jayantha Katupitiyah,University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

      Photo: (l. to r.) Prof.Katupitiyah and Christoph Edeler

      (21.-25.15.02.11)



    • Congratulations from AMiR team to Volkmar Eichhorn, who successfully passed his PhD examination!

      (03.02.11)





    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Dr.Bradley Nelson, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH, Zurich,Switzerland: 
      "Micro- and Nano Robots"

      (03.02.11)



      • 2010

    • Prof. Fatikow stayed as an adjunct professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China,
      Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering. He offered a graduated course of lectures on microrobotics and nanohandling. (18.12.10-14.01.11)
    • Prof. Fatikow visited Changchun University of Science and Technology, Center for Nano Metrology and Manufacturing Technologies, Xiamen University, Mechanical and Electrical Research Institute, Soochow University, Robotics and Microsystems Center, Suzhou, South China University of Technology, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Guangzhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Research Institute of Micro-/Nanometer Science and Technology. He offered seminar talks on AMiR research activities (24.12.10-24.01.11)

      Photo: at Xiamen University with the Chair of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department, Prof. Sun Daoheng, Prof. Xi Wenming and young faculties and PhD students







      Photo: at Soochow University with Prof. Ru Changhai, with the Director of Robotics and Microsystems Center, Prof. Sun Lining and Prof. Chen Liguo (l. to r.)







      Photo: at Shanghai Jiao Tong University with the Vice-Director of the Research Institute of Micro/Nanometer Science and Technology, Prof. Wang Qingkang





    • Volkmar Eichhorn participated in the symposium on graphene and carbon nanotubes "Carbonhagen 2010" in Copenhagen, Denmark and contributed to the poster session (15.-16.11.10)
    • Prof. Fatikow und Prof. Hyungsuck Cho (KAIST, Daejeon, and DGIST, Daegu, South Korea) are organizing Special Session on Vision Feedback for Micro/Nano Manipulation at the International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT), Toronto, Canada (25.-27.10.10)
    • Olaf C.Haenssler and Manuel Mikczinski visited the University of Crete, Photonic and Electronic Materials Laboratory (PEML) at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL, FORTH) Heraklion, Crete, Greece. (22.10.-27.10.10)
    • ARD reported about the AMiR-Research on CNTs. (30.11.2010)
    • The paper “Recognition and Tracking of Magnetic Nanobots using MRI” submitted by T. Wortmann, C. Dahmen, C. Geldmann and S. Fatikow was nominated for the Best Paper Award at the Intnational Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT), Toronto, Canada (25.-27.10.10)
    • Prof. Fatikow is a regional PC chair of the IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC2010), Monterey, California, USA, (12.-15.10.10)
    • EU joint research project NANOBITS (FP7-ICT) Kick-off consortium meeting at TC-ANH (07.10.10)
    • AMiR attended the European Researchers´ Night as an exhibitor for a second time.
      News (German): "Oldenburg: Auf Entdeckungstour in Labors und Hörsälen"
      Lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite der Nordwest-Zeitung (24.09.10)

    • Prof. Fatikow stayed at Changchun University of Science and Technology (CUST), Center for Nano Metrology and Manufacturing Technologies (CNM), China. He offered a course of lectures on nanorobotics and automation for CNM researchers.

      Photo: with the Director of CNM, Prof. Zuobin Wang and course participants,


      Photo: At working dinner with the President of CUST, Prof. Huadong Yu (mid), Vice-President of CUST, Prof. Weizhi Sun (l.), and Director of Division for International Cooperation, Jilin Provincial Science & Technology Department, Mr Yingjie Bai (r.)

      (19.09.-02.10.10)

    • Claas Diederichs visited Michigan State University, NanoRobotic Systems Lab, Michigan, MI, USA, for preparing joint TEM-based nanohandling experiments (18.09.2010)
    • Seminar Talk by Prof. R. Jayavel, Anna University, Chennai, India: "Synthesis and Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes using Mesoporous MCM-41 molecular sieves for Memory Device Applications" (15.09.10)

    • Visitor: Prof. R. Jayavel, Anna University, Chennai, India

      Photo: (l. to r.) Volkmar Eichhorn and Prof. Jayavel

      (15.09.10)



    • AMiR/TC-ANH contributed a chapter on automated nanohandling to the "Handbook of Nanophysics" (Ed.K.D.Suttler), Taylor&Francis Publisher, CRC Press, 2010. This seven-volume set is the first comprehensive reference to cover both fundamental and applied aspects of physics at the nanoscale.The Handbook offers a sound introduction to established fundamentals in the field as well as a summary of the most significant developments in research.

    • Christian Dahmen is visiting the group of Prof. Antoine Ferreira, Université d'Orléans, Institut Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes, Mécanique et Energétique, Bourges, France (13.09.2010-23.09.2010) 

    •
      V. Eichhorn, U. Mick, and C. Stolle participated and contributed to the International Workshop on Analytical Focused Ion Beam and Scanning Electron Microscopy, TESCAN Corp., Brno, Czech Republic.

      (09.-10.09.10)


    • The paper “Automated Nanorobotic Handling of Bio- and Nano-Materials” submitted by S. Fatikow, V. Eichhorn, D. Jasper, M. Weigel-Jech, F. Niewiera and F. Krohs, won the Best Application Paper Award at the 6th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering CASE2010,Toronto, Canada (24.08.10)

    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Hyungsuck Cho, Daegu Gyungbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, South Korea and Korea Advanced Institute of
      Science and Technology, Dae Jeon, South Korea: "A Pathway to Intelligent Perception: Towards Intelligent Imaging And Launching the Robotics
      Engineering Department at DGIST"

      (23.08.10)

    • Prof. Fatikow is a co-chair of the track ‘Automation in Meso, Micro and Nano-Scale’ at the IEEE Intern. Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE2010), Toronto, Canada (22-24.08.10)

    • Grant of the European Research project NanoBits
      The project is coordinated by the Technology Cluster - Automated Nanohandling, OFFIS, and deals with the development of exchangeable and customizable scanning probe tips for the three-dimensional characterization of critical dimensions. The triennial project is starting in September 2010 and is funded with 2.5 million Euros. The NanoBits consortium includes relevant European institutes and companies in the area of nano-handling and nano-characterization (19.08.2010)

    • Prof. Hyungsuck Cho is staying with AMiR as a Humboldt scholar.
      Prof. Cho is DGIST Chair Professor, Department of Robotics Engineering, Daegu Gyungbuk Institute of Science and Technology and E-Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
      Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Dae Jeon, South Korea    
      (01.-31.08.10)


    • AMiR/TC-ANH organised the workshop "Visualisation and Manipulation of Paper-making Fibres and Fibrils in the SEM" Prof. R.Passas, INP-Pagora, Grenoble, France, Dr.S.Heinemann, VTT, Espoo, Finland, and P.Saketi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland, attended the workshop and contributed to special sessions. (26.07. - 30.07.2010)
      Photo: (l. to r.) Prof. Passas, Malte Bartenwerfer, Pooya Saketi, Dr.Heinemann and Manuel Mikczinski

    • Prof. Regnier, Prof. Haliyo and Dr. Bolopion, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Paris, France, visited AMiR for joint experiments.
      (19-20.07.10)
      Photo: (l. to r.) Prof.Haliyo, Dr.Bolopion and Prof.Regnier
    • Michael Weigel-Jech conducted experiments at the University of Toronto, Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory, Toronto, Canada
      Seminar talk about “Handling and Characterization of Biomaterials” (21.06.-05.07.10)

    • David Folio and Karim Belharent, Université d'Orléans, Institut Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes, Mécanique et Energétique, Bourges, France, visited AMIR for joint experiments.
      (24.05.-03.07.10)

      Photo: (l. to r.) Tim Wortmann, Christian Dahmen, David Folio and Karim Belharent
    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Hisayuki Aoyama, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan: "Desktop Micro Robots Factory and Its Applications" (17.06.10)

    • Visitor: Prof. Hisayuki Aoyama, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan 

      Photo: (l. to r.) Volkmar Eichhorn, Prof. Aoyama and Tim Luttermann

      (17.06.10)


    • Talks by Manuel Mikczinski at the joint 41st International Symposium on Robotics and 6th German Conference on Robotics (ISR/Robotik 2010) Titles: "Micro-/Nano-Integration for MEMS based on nano-robotic assembly" and "Development of Micro-force Sensors for Testing Applications in Micro- and Nanorobotics" (07.06.-09.06.10) 

    • Volkmar Eichhorn visited Michigan State University, NanoRobotic Systems Lab, Michigan, MI, USA, for preparing joint TEM-based nano- handling experiments

      Photo: (l. to r.) Volkmar Eichhorn and Prof. Lixin Dong

      (01.06.10)


    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Benjamin Shapiro, University of Maryland, MD, USA: "Flow Control of Microscopic and Nanoscale Objects: From Steering Live Swimming Cells to Manipulation of Quantum Dots to Nanometer Precision" (31.05.2010)

    • Visitor: Prof. Benjamin Shapiro, University of Maryland, MD, USA 

      Photo: (l. to r.) Christian Dahmen, Tim Wortmann and Prof. Benjamin Shapiro

      (31.05.10)



    • The paper “High-speed nanorobot position control inside a scanning electron microscope” submitted by D. Jasper, C. Diederichs, C. Edeler, S. Fatikow, won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE ECTI-CON, Chiang Mai, Thailand (19.-21.05.10) 

    • Prof. Fatikow visited the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), School of Engineering and Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.
      Photo: with the Dean of the School, Prof. Nitin Afzulpurkar, the AIT President, Prof. Said Irandoust, and Prof. Pham Huy Giao (l. to r.)
      (14.05.10)




    • Manuel Mikczinski attended the international meeting of the COST-Action E54 Fine Fibre , Coimbra, Portugal

      • (10.05.-12.05.10)



    • Talk by Volkmar Eichhorn at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, AK, USA

      (03.05.10)





    • Prof. Fatikow is a co-organizer of two Special Sessions on Micro/Nano Robotics at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK, U.S.A. (03-08.05.10)  

    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Jiao Jiwei: 
      "Introduction to MEMS/NEMS Activities at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences"

      (15.04.10)








    • Visitor: Prof. Jiao Jiwei, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 

      Photo: (l. to r.) Tim Luttermann, Prof. Jiao Jiwei and Volkmar Eichhorn

      (15.04.10)


    • Prof. Fatikow visited different universities in the U.S.A. and delivered seminar talks on AMiR research activities at the Michigan State University, Electrical & Computer Engineering, East Lansing, MI; the University of Maryland, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institut for Systems Research, College Park, MD; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Piscataway, NJ; the City University of New York, Department of Electrical Engineering, New York City, NY



      Photos: at the University of Maryland with the Director of Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) Laboratory, Prof. Jaydev P. Desai, Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter, and RAMS PhD students




      and at the Michigan State University with Prof. Ning Xi, Prof. Lixin Dong, and Prof. Xiaobo Tan on after-work gathering ;-)

      (29.03-11.04.10)






    • Visitor: Prof. Michael Reichling
      University of Osnabrück, Physics Department, Nanoscience Research Group

      (19.03.2010)

      Photo: (l. to r.) Prof. Michael Reichling with Volkmar Eichhorn and Tim Luttermann



    • Researchgroup "Handling and Characterization of Nanoscale Objects" visited Jacobs University of Bremen

      (25.02.2010)

      Photo: (l. to r.) Prof. Thomas Heine with Malte Bartenwerfer, Volkmar Eichhorn and Uwe Mick


    • Talk by Christian Dahmen at the 3rd Unither Technology Conference, Orford (Quebec), Canada Title: "MRI-based Navigation and Control of Micro- and Nanobots for Targeted Drug Delivery"
      (24.02.10)
    • Christian Dahmen is visiting École Polytechnique de Montréal, NanoRobotics Laboratory, Canada (22.02.-23.02.10) 
    • Tim Wortmann, Robert Tunnell and Christian Dahmen visited the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, and attended surgical experiments. (19.02.2010)

    • Prof. Fatikow visited the University of Texas at Arlington, Automation & Robotics Research Institute (ARRI), TX, U.S.A.

      Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities

      Photo: with the Director of ARRI, Prof. Harry Stephanou and Prof. Dan Popa
      (14-18.02.10)

    • Visitor: Prof. Antoine Ferreira, ENSI de Bourges/University of Orleans, Laboratoire Vision et Robotique, visited AMiR for a NANOMA project meeting. (12.02.2010-13.02.2010) 


    • Visitors: Prof.Thomas Heine and Dr. Agnieszka Kuc, Jacobs University, School of Engineering and Science, Bremen

      (11.02.10)

      Photo: (l. to r.) Volkmar Eichhorn, Dr.Agnieszka Kuc, Prof.Thomas Heine and Dr.Albert Sill

    • Prof. Fatikow visited the University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, and the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, TX, U.S.A. (11-13.02.10)

    • Ahlem Abbaci, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Paris, visited AMIR for joint experiments
      (05-11.02.10)

      Photo: (l. to r.) Malte Bartenwerfer, Ahlem Abbaci and Florian Krohs



    • Prof. Fatikow visited Chinese University of Hongkong, Dept. of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
      Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities

      Photo: the vicinity of CUHK campus

      (01.02.10)

    • Prof. Fatikow visited City University of Hongkong, Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering
      Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities (29-31.01.10)
    • Christoph Edeler visited the University of New South Wales, School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, Sydney, Australia (20.01. - 03.02.2010)

    • Seminar Talk by Prof. Dong-Yol Yang: 
      "Nanomanufacturing of Three-dimensional Shapes by Nano-stereolithography and its applications "

      Photo: (l. to r.) Dr.Albert Sill, Prof. Dong-Yol Yang and Dr.Thomas Wich
      (25.01.10)

    • Visitor: Prof. Dong-Yol Yang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea: 

      Photo: (l. to r.) Dr.Albert Sill, Michael Weigel-Jech, Prof. Dong-Yol Yang and Florian Krohs
      (25.01.10)

    • Prof. Fatikow visited Indian Institute of Science, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Bangalore, India (11.01.10)

    • Prof. Fatikow offered invited talk on the Int. Conference on Power, Control, Signal and Computation (EPSCICON), Thrissur, India

      Photo: motivated students of the Vidya Academy, Thrissur

      (04-07.01.10)


    • Prof. Fatikow visited Anna University, Nano Manufacturting Center, Chennai, India
      Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
      (02-03.01.10)

      • 2009

      • Prof. Fatikow visited FEMTO-ST, Dept. of Automatic Control and Micro-Mechatronic Systems, Besancon, France
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities  (17-18.12.09)
      • Prof. Fatikow visited Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities (27-28.11.09)

      • Prof. Fatikow visited South China University of Technology, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Guangzhou
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        Photo: with Prof. Xianmin Zhang and Prof. Yisheng Guan on the university campus

        (20-22.11.09)












      • Claas Diederichs is performing experiments at the University of Toronto, Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory (AMNL), Toronto, Canada(16-27.11.09)
      • Prof. Fatikow visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Mechanical Engineering
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities (9-11.11.09)

      • Tim Luttermann, Uwe Mick, Florian Krohs and Manuel Mikczinski visited the University of Crete, Photonic and Electronic Materials Laboratory (PEML) at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL, FORTH) and the Microelectronics Research Group, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

        (26.10.-30.10.09)




      • Prof. Fatikow stayed as a adjunct professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
        Host: Prof. Zhonghe Jin, Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering
        Advanced course on microrobotics and nanohandling for PhD and MSc students 
        Photo: with Prof. Zhonghe Jin in his lab

        (01.-30.11.09)



      • Prof. Fatikow visited Tampere University of Technology, Department of Automation Science and Engineering, and Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Automation and Systems Technology, Finland
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities (19-24.10.09)
      • EU joint research project HYDROMEL (FP6-NMP): Review meeting at AMiR (21.10-22.10.09)
      • Prof. Fatikow und Prof. Yangmin Li (University of Macau) are organized Special Session on Advanced Control Techniques in Micro/Nano Manipulation at the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St Louis, Missouri, USA
        (11-15.10.09)

      • Talk by Manuel Mikczinski at the workshop on “Impact of the fibre properties on the quality of final product“ (COST Action E54)
        at the Centré Technique du Papier, Grenoble, France
        Title “Micro- / Nanoengineering”

        (09.10.09) 



      • Prof. Fatikow visited the Hanoi University of Technology and the International Training Institute for Material Science (ITIMS), Hanoi, Vietnam
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        (28.09.09)

      • Uwe Mick and Florian Krohs visited the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Paris, France

        (28.09.09-09.10.09)





      • A team of international researchers visited AMiR. Among others the following visitors stayed for two days at AMiR:
        Prof. Pasi Kallio, Dr. Matti Vilkko and Dr. Pekka Ronkanen, Micro- and Nanosystems Research Group, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Dr. Johana Kuncova-Kallio, Biosensing Competence Centre, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Dr. Susanna Narkilahti, Regea Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Finland; Dr. Kristian Tryggvason, BioLamina AB, Sweden and
        Dr.-Ing. Monika Leester-Schädel, Insitute for Microtechnology at the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany (05.-06.10.09) 

      • AMiR attended the European Researchers´ Night as an exhibitor, Oldenburg, Science City Germany  2009

        (25.09.09)






      • Tim Wortmann served as Session Chair of 2009 Int. Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT), Istanbul, Turkey (21.-23.09.09)

      • Prof. Fatikow visited the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Dept. of Electrical Engineering

        Photos: with Prof. Jia-Yush Yen and his team









        and with Prof. Ren Luo in his lab

        (17-20.09.09)








      • Prof. Fatikow visited the University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) and the Center for International Research on MicroMechatronics (CIRMM)
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities Photo: with Prof. Teruo Fujii

        (15.09.09)






      • Prof. Fatikow visited Nagoya University, Department of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering, Fukuda Lab
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities Photo: with Prof. Toshio Fukuda’s team

        (10.09.09)




      • Prof. Fatikow organized Special Session on Control Issues and Sensor Feedback in Nanohandling Systems at the IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO), Gifu, Japan (09.-12.09.09)
      • Prof.Fatikow offered a seminar talk at KAIST, Daejeon (Department of Mechanical Engineering), invited talk in the opening ceremony for the research center SpeNaLo at the Busan University, plenary talk at the Korean Automatic Control Conference (KACC 2009), a seminar talk at KIMM, Daejeon, a seminar talk at the Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, and a seminar talk at KITECH, Seoul
      • Prof.Fatikow awarded Visiting Fellowship from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
        (01.-09.09.09)
        Host: Prof. Hyungsuck Cho, Department of Mechanical Engineering

      • Christian Dahmen visited the University of Waterloo, Dept. of Systems Design Engineering, Advanced Micro-/Nanodevices Lab, Canada

        Photo: (l. to r.) Prof. John Yeow, Christian Dahmen and Andrew S.Logan

        (19.08.09)



      • News: "Nanorobots Automatically Pick Up and Install Carbon Nanotubes "
        see the website of AZoNano™.com - The A to Z of Nanotechnology (16.08.09)
      • News: "Tiny robots get a grip on nanotubes "
        see the website of European Commision: ICT Results (17.08.09)

      • Visitors: Dr.Viktor Koledov and Dr. Svetlana von Gratowski, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

        Photo: (l. to r.) Volkmar Eichhorn with Dr.Viktor Koledov and Dr.Svetlana von Gratowski

        (14.08.09)


      • Christian Dahmen is performing experiments at the Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory (AMNL), University of Toronto, Canada (10.-22.08.09) 
      • Christian Dahmen is performing experiments at the Brigham & Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School), Surgical Planning Laboratory, and at the Northeastern University, Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory, Boston, USA (03.-10.08.09)

      • Seminar Talk by Prof. Youfu Li:
        "Automatic view planning for 3D vision tasks"

        (27.07.09)








      • Visitor: Prof. Youfu Li, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

        Photo: (l. to r.) Tim Wortmann and Christoph Edeler with Prof.Youfu Li

        (27.07.09) 




      • Prof. Fatikow served as Tutorials & Workshop Chair of 2009 IEEE/ASME Int. Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Singapore
        He also offered a half-day Tutorial “Robot-Based Nanohandling Automation” for AIM participants (Photo), and acted as a Panelist in the Panel Session “Future Perspectives, Developments and Initiatives in Intelligent Mechatronics”
        (14-17.07.09)


      • Visitors: Dr.Hui Xi and Juan Camilo Acosta, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de robotique, Paris, France
        Photo: (l. to r.) F.Niewera, F.Krohs, Dr.Hui Xi, U.Mick, Juan Camilo Acosta and M.Mikczinski (30.06.2009 - 03.07.2009) 

      • Prof. Fatikow visited the University of Macau, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Electromechanical Engineering

        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities

        Photo: with Prof. Kok-Meng Lee (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.) and Prof. Yangmin Li (University of Macau) (26.06.09)

      • Tim Wortmann is performing experiments at the Brigham & Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School), Surgical Planning Laboratory, and at the Northeastern University, Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory, Boston, USA
        (15.-28.06.09)
      • Prof. Fatikow visited the City University of Hong Kong, Dept. of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities (15.06.09)

      • Visitors: Prof. George Kiriakidis, Ioannis Kortidis and Kostas Moschovis,  Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Heraklion, Greece

        Photo: (l. to r.) Kostas Moschovis, Prof. Kiriakidis and Ioannis Kortidis with Tim Luttermann

        (15-17.06.09)



      • Seminar Talk by Prof.George Kiriakidis:
        "Transparent Conductive Oxides in the post-Si Electronics Era"

        (15.06.09)





      • AMiR Team is attending Final review meeting of EU-funded project NanoHand, Klocke Nanotechnik, Aachen, Germany
        Demonstrator: NanoLab (Video on You Tube) (29.05.09)
      • Talk by Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wich at University of Groningen, Netherlands
        Title: "Assembly automation on the Micro- and Nanoscale" (26.05.09)
      • Daniel Jasper, Manuel Mikczinski and Michael Weigel-Jech are performing experiments in the labs of Tampere University of Technology, Micro- and Nanosystems Research Group, Tampere, Finland (25.-29.05.09)

      • Prof. Zhonghe Jin and Dr. Huiquan Wang, Department of Information Science
        & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, are visiting AMiR to conduct joint experiments on nanohandling and nanocharacterization
        Photo: (l. to r.) Dr. Wang and Prof. Jin with Volkmar Eichhorn, Uwe Mick and Florian Krohs

        (20-30.05.09)


      • Seminar Talk by Prof.Jin:
        "Micro-Resonator on Silicon Substrate"

        Photo: Present for the speaker - the last AMiR book (Springer, 2008)

        (25.05.09)




      • Tim Wortmann awarded a travel grant from German Academic Exchange Service to attend the IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), Yokohama, Japan (20-22.05.09) 

      • V. Eichhorn and Dr. A. Sill interviewed by BBC Radio 4 at the NanoHand Exploitation Event, Tate Modern Galery, London, UK

        (19.05.09)







      • AMiR team is attending the NanoHand Exploitation Event, Tate Modern Galery, London, UK

        Talks by Dr. A. Sill and V. Eichhorn

        (19.05.09) 




      • Talk by Daniel Jasper at the workshop on "Control Issues in the Micro/Nano-World"
        during the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2009 (ICRA),
        Kobe, Japan

        (17.05.09)





        Manuel Mikczinski attended Meeting of COST Action E54 "Fine Fibre - Characterisation of the fine structure and properties of papermaking fibres using new technologies"
        Tampere, Finland

        (04–06.05.2009)




      • Visitor: PD Dr.-Ing. Silke Christiansen, Institute of Photonic Technology e.V., Jena, Germany

        (05.05.09)  




      • News(German): "Forscher der Universität lassen Roboter tanzen"
        lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite der Nordwest-Zeitung (18.04.09) 


      • News: AMiR attended the Hannover Fair 2009 as an exhibitor, Hannover, Germany
        Demonstrator:"Automated Microrobotics"
        Hall 2, Booth A10

        (20.-24.04.09)

      • Olaf C.Haenssler performed experiments in the labs of Danish Technical University, Nanointegration Group, DTU Nanotech, and Center of Electron Nanoscopy DTU CEN, Copenhagen, Denmark (23.03.-06.04.09)

      • Prof. Fatikow presented a poster at the International Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology, Québec City, Québec, Canada
        Title: "Development of a Novel Nanorobotic System for the Characterization and Manipulation of Biomaterials" (01.-03.04.09)


      • Prof.Fatikow visited the University of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory, Canada

        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities
        Photo: with Prof. Yu Sun and his team

        (22.-31.03.09)


      • AMiR team attended the 1.Workshop of "Micro- and Nanointegration", VDE/VDI-Gesellschaft Mikroelektronik, Mikro- und Feinwerktechnik (GMM), Seeheim, Germany
        Talks by Christoph Edeler, Christian Stolle and Chrsitian Dahmen on AMiR research activities
        (12.03.-13.03.09)
      • Talk by Dr.-Ing. Thomas Wich at the Workshop on Hybrid and Self-Assembly
        at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
        Title: "Automated assembly on the Micro- and Nanoscale" (12.03.09) 
      • Christian Dahmen visited the Ecole Polytechnique Montréal, NanoRobotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Engineering, Montréal, Canada (27.02.2009)
      • Talk by Christian Dahmen at the 2nd Unither Technology Conference, Orford (Quebec), Canada
        Title: "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Magnetic Nanobots for Targeted Drug Delivery"
        (24.02.2009-27.02.2009)

      • Volkmar Eichhorn attended the Workshop Nanotools-Microgripper
        at Technical University Ilmenau, Germany (26.02.-27.02.09)


      • Visitors: Prof. Pasi Kallio (Photo), Dr.Matti Vilkko and Dr.Pekka Ronkanen
        Micro- and Nanosystems Research Group,
        Tampere University of Technology, Finland

        (16.-17.02.09)   


      • Visitor: Dr.Emmanuel Brousseau
        Manufacturing Engineering Centre,
        Cardiff University, UK

        (16.-19.02.09) 


      • Manuel Mikczinski visited the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Heraklion, Greece
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities (09.02.-13.02.09)  


      • Prof.Fatikow visited the University of Melbourne (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering),
        the Monash University         (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering) in Melbourne,
        the University of New South Wales (School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering) in Sydney, and the University of Wollongong (School of Mechanical, Materials and Mechatronic Engineering), Australia
        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities in the Department seminars
        Photo: with Prof. Saman Halgamuge and his team (University of Melbourne)
        (05.-18.02.09) 

      • Christian Dahmen and Tim Wortmann visited Northeastern University and Brigham & Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School), Boston, MA, USA (31.01.09) 
      • Prof.Fatikow visited the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotique (ISIR), Paris, France   
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities (22.-30.01.09)
      • Christian Dahmen and Tim Wortmann attended the IDEA Sequence Development Course and Image Calculation Course at Siemens Medical Solutions, Cary, NC, USA (26.01-05.02.09) 

        2008

        • News: "Microgrippers pick-and-place carbon nanotubes"
          see the website of nanotechweb.org (17.12.08)

        • News:"Microsystem Needs for Test and Measurement"
          Completed joint research project RoboMAT mentioned in mstnews (15.12.08)

      • Prof.Fatikow visited University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, Hefei, China
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        Photo: with Prof.Huang
        (16.-17.12.08) 




      • Prof.Fatikow awarded Visiting Fellowship from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
        (08.-19.12.08)
        Host: Institute of Microelectronics and Photoelectronics, Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering
        Seminar Talks on AMiR research activities
        Photo: with Dr.Wang, Prof.Hwang (USA) and Prof.Jin, Director of the Institute

        • News (German): Invitation by Zhejiang University - Wissenschaftlicher Aufenthalt in China - Informatiker Sergej Fatikow von renommierter Universität eingeladen
          lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite von der Pressestelle Universität Oldenburg (08.12.08)

      • Volkmar Eichhorn performed experiments
        in the labs of Danish Technical University        , Nanointegration Group, DTU Nanotech,  Copenhagen, Denmark
        (01.-20.12.08)


      • News: Danish Nanotechnology Schoolbook: Nanoteknologiske Horisonter 
        Some pictures in a Danish Schoolbook originated from research work at AMiR/TC ANH (including the cover picture and 3D picture).  PDF-Dokument (08.12.08)

      • Visitor: Prof.Bijan Shirinzadeh
        Director of the Robotics & Mechatronics Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
        Seminar Talk:"Motion tracking for piezo-actuated micro/nano manipulators"
        (02.-03.12.08)



      • News: Nanotechnology gets a grip
        see the website of Nanowerk Spotlight (26.11.08)
      • Prof. Fatikow invited to serve as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Systems and Control Engineering: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (PEP, London, UK)
      • Christian Dahmen and Tim Wortmann visited the Sheffield Hallam University, Mobile Machines and Vision Laboratory, Sheffield, UK
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        (26.11.-03.12.09)

      • News: Microrobotic researchers from Oldenburg win International Award 
        The prestigious Koh Young Best Paper Award 2008 was given by the International Journal of Optomechatronics (IJO, Taylor & Francis, USA) to Dr. Marco Jähnisch and Prof. Dr. Sergej Fatikow for their paper "3D Vision Feedback for Nanohandling Monitoring in a Scanning Electron Microscope". The Koh Young Award was handed over to AMiR (Photo:Christian Dahmen) in November at the SPIE International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies in San Diego, CA, USA. ( press release on 25. November 2008 / University of Oldenburg)
      • Christian Dahmen awarded a travel grant from German Research Foundation to attend the Int. Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT), San Diego, CA, USA
        (17-19.11.08)
      • Visitor: Prof.Dr.-Ing.Rüdiger Dillmann
        Director of the Research Center for Information Science (FZI), Karlsruhe, Head of the research group "Industrial Applications of Informatics and Microsystems (IAIM)", Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
        Seminar Talk         : "Humanoids Learning Sensorimotor Skills and Task Knowledge from Active Observation of Human Demonstration" (20.10.08) 

      • News (German): Multifunktions-Werkzeug für die Nanotechnologie
        lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite von Chemie.de (17.10.08)
      • Daniel Jasper awarded a travel grant from German Research Foundation to attend the International Workshop on Microfactories (IWMF), Evanston, Illinois, USA
        (05-10.10.08) 
      • Invited Talk by Michael Weigel-Jech at the International Conference on Nanosensors for Industrial Applications 2008, Vienna, Austria
        Title: “Development of a Nanostation for Manipulation and Characterization of Biomaterials to Support Sensor Development in BioNanotechnology”
        (29-30.09.08)
      • Christoph Edeler awarded a travel grant from German Research Foundation to attend the European Conference on Mechanism Science (EUCOMES), Cassino, Italy
        (17-20.09.08)
      • AMiR Team visited the Tampere University of Technology, Micro- and Nanosystems Research Group, and the University of Tampere, REGEA Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Tampere, Finland
        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities
        (17.-19.09.08)
      • Uwe Mick attended the Microsystems Summer School, Center for Microsystems Technology (ZEMI), Berlin, Germany 
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        (15.09.-19.09.08)

      • Prof. Fatikow awarded Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (08.09.-03.10.08)

        Host: Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC), Cardiff University, UK

        Photo: with Prof.D.T.Pham, Director of MEC



        Visits and Seminar Talks:
        - Swansea University, Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre
        - Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) at the University of the West of England and Bristol University
        - National Physical Laboratory (NPL), London
        - Cambridge University, Department of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Division
        - Cardiff University, Manufacturing Engineering Centre

      • News (German): Oldenburger Informatiker von Royal Academy of Engineering ausgezeichnet
        lesen Sie den Artikel auf der Webseite vom Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
        (12.08.2008)

      • Visitor: Prof.Hyungsuck Cho
        Head of the Laboratory for Opto-Mechatronic Systems and Machine Intelligence, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
        Seminar Talk:"Towards Achieving Vision System Intelligence" (13.-14.08.08)




      • Visitor: Prof.Sylvain Martel
        Director of the NanoRobotics Laboratory, Department of Computer Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
        Seminar Talk:"MRI-based Medical Nanorobotic Platform for the Control of Magnetic Nano- particles and Flagellated Bacteria for Target Interventions in Human Capillaries" (21.07.08)


      • Team of DTU Nanotech, Lyngby, Denmark, performed joint experiments in the AMiR labs
        (17.01-18.01.08, 13.02.-14.02.08, 19.05.-22.05.08 and 15.07.-17.07.08)

      • Visitor: Prof.Dr.-Ing.habil.h.c.Helmut Wurmus
        Center for Micro- and Nanotechnologies (ZMN), Technical University Ilmenau, Germany
        Seminar Talk:"Das Zentrum für Mikro- und Nanotechnologie (ZMN) der Technischen Universität Ilmenau" (03.07.08)





      • Visitor: Prof.Dr.-Ing.Heinz Wörn
        Head of the Institute of Process Control and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
        Seminar Talk:"Von der Mikrorobotik zur Schwarmrobotik"
        (26.-27.06.08)





      • Visitor: Prof.Dr.rer.nat.Stephanus Büttgenbach
        Head of the Institute for Microtechnology, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
        Seminar Talk:"UV-Tiefenlithographie in der Mikrosystemtechnik"  (25.04.08)






      • Visitor: Prof.Peter Bøggild
        Head of the Nanointegration Group, Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark
        (15.-17.04.08)





      • EU joint research project NANORAC (FP6-NMP)  
        Final consortium meeting and project demonstration at AMiR
        (17.04.08)







      2007

      • Prof. Fatikow visited Cardiff University, Manufacture Engineering Centre, UK
        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities
        (14-20.12.07)
      • Team of DTU Nanotech, Lyngby, Denmark, performed joint experiments in the AMiR labs
        (12.02-13.02.07, 20.08.-21.08.07, 20.09.-21.09.07 and 18.-20.12.07)
      • Prof. Fatikow visited Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Nanorobotics Lab., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        (16-24.11.07)
      • News: New book: "Automated Nanohandling by Microrobots"
        by Fatikow, Sergej (Ed.) Springer-Verlag
        (01.11.07)







      • Prof. Fatikow visited Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Automation and Control, Tampere, Finland
        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities
        (15-20.10.07)
      • Prof. Fatikow invited to serve as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Optomechatronics (Taylor & Francis, USA)
      • Prof. Fatikow served as Conference Chair of 2007 SPIE Int. Conference on Optomechatronic Systems Control, Int.Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT), Lausanne, Switzerland
        (08-10.10.07)  
      • Prof. Fatikow visited Nanyang Technological University, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Singapore
        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities
        (28.09.07) 
      • News: Hands-on nanotechnology: towards a nanorobotic assembly line
        see the website of Nanowerk Spotlight (11.09.07)
      •

        Visitor: Prof.Manel Puig i Vidal
        Microsystems Engineering Instrumentation & Communication Systems (SIC), Department of Electronics, University of Barcelona, Spain (20.-21.08.07)





      • Prof. Fatikow und Prof. Quan Zhou (Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China) organized Special Session on Automation in Micro- and Nanohandling at the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Harbin, China
        (05-08.08.07)   
      • Invited Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the IEEE NANO-Conference, Hong Kong
        Title: “Microrobot-based Nanoindentation of an Epoxy-based Electrically Conductive Adhesive”
        (02-05.08.07)
      • Prof. Fatikow visited Zhejiang University, Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Hangzhou, China / Harbin Institute of Technology, Micro-Nano Technology Research Center, Harbin, China / Beijing Institut of Technology, Department of Opto¬electronic Engineering, Beijing, China
        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities
        (27.07-11.08.07)
      •
        Prof. Fatikow organized Special Session on Automation in Micro- and Nanohandling at the IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea and joined the Panel Discussion on Micro/Nano Manipulation (organized by Prof. Fukuda, University of Nagoya, Japan)

        Photo: with Prof. St. Buettgenbach (Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany)
        (06-11.07.07)


      • Prof. Fatikow visited Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute for Applied Computer Science, Karlsruhe, Germany
        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities
        (31.05-02.06.07)
      • Prof. Fatikow offered PhD-MSc Seminar on microrobotics and nanohandling at University of Barcelona, Department of Electronics, Spain
        (20-25.05.07)
      • Visitor: Prof.Bradley Nelson
        Head of Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

        Seminar Talk:"From Micro- to Nanorobotics"
        (02.04.07)





      • Prof. Fatikow visited École Polytechnique de Montréal, Dept. of Computer Science, NanoRobotics Lab., Montreal, Canada
        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities
        (16-28.03.07)
      • News (German): Neue Projekte für die Mikro- und Nanorobotik an der Universität Oldenburg
        Artikel auf der Webseite vom Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, 27.02.2007
      • Visitor: Prof.Heikki Koivo
        Head of the Department of Automation and Systems Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland

        Seminar Talk:"Research Issues in wireless sensor- and actuator-networks"
        (02.02.07)

      2006

      • News (German): Universität Oldenburg: Forschungsprojekt Nano-Montage
        Artikel auf der Webseite vom Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, 15.11.2006
      • Prof. Fatikow visited Tianjin University, School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin, China

        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities

        Photo: with Prof. Fengzhou Fang and his colleagues
        (22.-24.10.06)




      • Prof. Fatikow visited Northwestern Polytechnic University, School of Mechatronics, Xian, China

        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities

        Photo: with Prof. Quan Zhou
        (18.-21.10.06)





      • Prof. Fatikow visited Tsinghua University, Department of  Precision Instruments, and Beyonder Technologies Co. Ltd., Beijing, China

        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities

        Photo: with Prof. Zhaoying Zhou
        (15.-17.10.06) 











      • Best Paper Award of the SPIE 6th Int. Optomechatronics Conference on Visual/Optical Based Assembly and Packaging, Boston, MA, USA
        Title: “Vision feedback in an automatic nanohandling station inside an SEM”
        Authors: T. Sievers, M. Jähnisch, Ch. Schrader, S. Fatikow (Presenter)
        (01-04.10.06)

      • Visitor: Dr.Karin Nordstrøm Dyvelkov
        Nanointegration Group, Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark 
        (25.-26.09.2006)






      • Invited Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the Int. Conference in Multi-Material Micro Manufacture (4M), Grenoble, France
        Title: “Automatic Nanohandling Station inside a Scanning Electron Microscope”
        (20-22.09.06)
      • Torsten Sievers received the Best Presentation Award of the Virtual International Conference on Intelligent Production Machines and Systems
        Title: “Global sensor feedback for automatic nanohandling inside a scanning electron microscope”
        (03-14.07.06)
      •
        EU joint research project NANOHAND (FP6-NMP)
        Kick-off consortium meeting at AMiR
        (11.07.06)
      • Prof. Fatikow invited to act as evaluator for European Commission IST programme
        (29.05-02.06.06)
      • Visitor: Prof.Toshio Fukuda
        Head of Fukuda Lab, Dept. of Micro System Engineering and Dept. of Mechano-Informatics and Systems, Nagoya University, Japan

        Seminar Talk: "Nano-Sensors, nano-actuators and nano-manipulation"
        (15.-17.06.06)




      • Visitors: Dr.Shizhong Su, Dr.Xiangwei Wang,  Dr.Ashraf Fahmy, Dr.Zuobin Wang
        Manufacturing Engineering Centre, Cardiff University, Great Britain (03.05.2006 - 05.05.2006)
      • AMiR attended the Hanover Fair 2006 as an exhibitor, Hanover, Germany
        Demonstrator:" Microrobots for Automated Nanohadling"
        (24.-28.04.06)
      • News (German): Hannover Messe - Gentoxizitätsmessung und Mikroroboter für die Nanowelt
        Artikel auf der Webseite vom Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, 18.04.2006
      • Prof. Fatikow visited  Cardiff University, Manufacture Engineering Centre, UK
        Seminar Talk         on AMiR research activities
        (27.03-07.04.06)
      • News (German): Gold- Nanostrukturen mit miniaturisiertem Roboter herstellen - Interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt an der Universität Oldenburg
        Artikel auf der Webseite vom Informationsdienst Wissenschaft, 17.03.2006
      • Prof. Fatikow offered PhD-MSc Seminar on microrobotics and nanohandling at University of Barcelona, Department of Electronics, Spain
        (06-17.03.06)

      2005

      • Best Paper Award of the Int. Conference on Automation, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Cairo, Egypt
        Title: “Microrobot station for automatic cell handling”
        Authors: T. Sievers (Presenter), S. Garnica, S. Tautz, T. Trüper †, S. Fatikow
        (19-21.12.05)

      • Visitor: Dr.Nikolay Zlatov
        Manufacturing Engineering Centre, Cardiff University, Great Britain
        (30.11.2005 - 02.12.2005)






      • Invited Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the NanoWorkshop, Brauschweig, Germany
        Title (german): “Nano-Robotik - aktuelle Anwendungen, technologische Trends und Probleme”
        (03.11.05)
      • Invited Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the Topical Meeting on Microfactories for MEMS and Nanofactories, Tsukuba, Japan
        Title: “Automatic Nanohandling Station inside an SEM”
        (18-20.10.05)

      • Invited Talk by Markus Kemper at the Sino-German Symposium on Microsystem Technology and Mechatronics, Ilmenau, Germany (Photo)
        Title: “Modelling and Control of an Indoor Miniature Rotorcraft Aerial Vehicle”
        (23-24.09.05)
      • Prof. Fatikow stayed with Manufacturing Engineering Centre - MEC (Head: Prof. Duc Truong Pham), Cardiff University, UK (01-30.09.05)


        Photo: with Prof. Duc Truong Pham















        Photo: with Prof. Stefan Dimov















      • Visitor: Dr.Ohmi Fuchiwaki
        AOLAB, Dep. of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
        Seminar Talk:"Desktop Micro Robot Factory" (30.08.05 - 01.09.05) 
      • Prof. Fatikow stayed with Laboratory for Molecular Robotics (Head: Prof. Ari Requicha), University of Southern California, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering Departments, Los Angeles, CA, USA
        (01.-10.08.05)    
      • Prof. Fatikow stayed with MEMS Lab. (Head: Prof. Karl Bohringer), University of Washington, Department of Electrical Engineering, Seattle, WA, USA
        Photo: with Prof. Alexander Mamishev, Head of Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory, during CPAC Summer Institute 2005
        (05.-31.07.05)   




      • EU joint research project ROBOSEM (FP5-Promoting competitive and sustainable growth) 
        Final consortium meeting and project demonstration by AMiR team, Thun, Switzerland
        (13-14.06.05)
      • Prof. Fatikow visited Columbia University, Dept. of Computer Science,
        Robotics Lab., New York City, NJ, USA
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        (30.05-01.06.04)

      • Prof. Fatikow stayed with NanoRobotics Lab. (Head: Prof. Sylvain Martel), École Polytechnique de Montréal, Dept. of Computer Science, Montreal, Canada
        Photo: with Prof. Sylvain Martel and his team
        (01-29.05.05)    
      • Visitor: Prof.Chee Wei Wong
        Head of the Optical Nanostructures Laboratory,
        Columbia University, New York, USA
        (May 2005)







      • Visitor: Dr. Wenyong Shi
        Director of R&D, Beyonder Technologies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (25.-26.04.05)
      • Prof. Fatikow stayed with Nanorobotics Lab. (Head: Prof. Metin Sitti), Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Pittsburgh, PA, USA (01-30.04.05)    


        Photo: with Prof. Metin Sitti and his team












        Photo: Visit at the Robotics Institute: with Prof. Ralph Hollis








      • Prof. Fatikow offered PhD-MSc Seminar on microrobotics and nanohandling at University of Barcelona, Department of Electronics, Spain
        (21.02 – 04.03.05)

      2004

      • Prof. Fatikow visited Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Automation and Systems Technology, Finland
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        (21.-23.12.04)
      • Prof. Fatikow visited the Laboratoire d'Automatique de Besançon, CNRS, France
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        (09.-11.12.04)
      • Visitor: Prof.Heikki Koivo and Dr. Quan Zhou
        Department of Automation and Systems Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland (18.-19.11.2004)
      • Prof. Fatikow visited Cardiff University, Manufacture Engineering Centre, UK
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        (09.-12.11.04)
      • AMiR team visited ETH Zurich, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems (IRIS), Switzerland
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities by Prof. Fatikow
        (03.11.04)
      • Invited Talk by Prof. Fatikow at Shanghai University, School of Mechatronics and Automation, China

        Title:"Development of Nanohandling Robot Cell"
        Photo: with Prof. Gong Zhenbang
        (16.10.04)


























      • Invited Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the Sino-German Symposium on Microsystem Technology and Mechatronics        , Hangzhou, China (Photo)
        Title: “Development of versatile nanohandling robots”
        (5.-8.10.04)

      • Visitor: Dr.Zuobin Wang
        Manufacturing Engineering Centre,
        Cardiff University, UK
        (21.-22.09.04)







      • Prof. Fatikow visited the Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland
        Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
        (17-22.08.04)
      • AMiR attended the Hannover Fair as an exhibitor, Hannover, Germany
        Demonstrator: "Automated robot-based microhandling cell"
        (07-12.04.04)
      • AMiR team visited FEI, Eindhoven, Netherlands
        Presentation of the current research activities at AMiR
        (23-24.02.04)
      • Visitor: Dr.Johann Michler
        Head of the Materials Technology group, Materials Science and Technology, EMPA, Thun, Switzerland

        Seminar Talk:"Materialnanotesting"
        (12.01.04)




        2003

        • Visitors: Dr. Dominique Gendreau (Photo) and Dr.Sounkalo Demble
          Automatic Control and Micro-Mechatronic Systems Department (AS2M), FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France (17.-19.12.03)






        • Team from the Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland, visited AMiR (Photo)
          (14.-17.12.03)






        • AMiR attended the EuroNanoForum as an exhibitor, Triest, Italy
          Demonstrator: "Nanohandling desktop station ROBOSEM - Smart Nanorobot for Sensor-based Handling in a Scanning Electron Microscope"
          (08.-12.12.03)

        • Delegation from South Korea (university professors and industry representatives)
          visited AMiR
          (20.10.03)



        • Prof. Fatikow visited University of Karlsruhe, Institute of Product Development, Germany
          Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
          (09.10.03)

        • Prof. Fatikow visited Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Automation and Systems Technology, Finland
          Seminar Talk on AMiR research activities
          (28.-31.08.03)

      2002

      • Invited Talk by Prof. Fatikow at the SFB562-Colloquium, Braunschweig, Germany
        Title: "Flexible Mikroroboter zur Handhabung von Objekten im REM"
        (29.-30.05.02)