News
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WARA Robotics 3.0 has been granted
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WARA Robotics 3.0 was granted to extend during 2026-2028 period of time by WASP. In the new phase, we assembled a strong consortium. ABB Robotics, Ericsson, Algoryx and AstraZeneca will continue to play active role. Volvo (VOLVO Lastvagnar AB) and SICK (SICK IVP AB) joined as the new industrial partners to WARA Robotics. Besides the…
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New Core-Team partner: Children’s heart centre
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In March, the Children’s Heart Centre of the Skåne University Hospital (located in Lund) was accepted by the WASP board as a new Core-Team partner of WARA Robotics! The Children’s Heart Centre is represented by Phan-Kiet Tran, a pediatric heart surgeon that is developing a robotic colleague with the help of artificial intelligence to assist…
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Adam Miksits wins best poster award
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During the WASP winter conference of 2025, Adam Miksits won the best poster Award for his work on “Communication and Control Co-Design for Risk-Aware Safety of Mobile Robots with Offloaded Localization”. For this work, Adam evaluated his method using the Mobile YuMi that is available within the WARA, in our lab at ABB’s Corporate Research…
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Mobile Manipulation Challenge Day Recap
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Yesterday we hosted the mobile manipulation challenge at the lab in ABB’s Corporate Research Center in Västerås. The four teams from Örebro University, LTH, KTH, and Politecnico di Milano presented their solutions in front of each other, the jury, and a few other interested visitors. The use case for this challenge, which was provided by…
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Mobile Manipulation Challenge Next week!
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Time flies, and it is almost time already for the mobile manipulation challenge day! In the past months, the participating teams from KTH, LTH, Örebro University and Politecnico di Milano have been preparing their solutions for the challenge set out together with AstraZeneca. This week, they are invited at the ABB Corporate Research Center in…
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IROS TV Video
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We had the pleasure of having the film crew of IROS TV over to shoot a professional video for the WARA. You can check it out on YouTube! The video was broadcasted during IROS 2024.