Best Paper Award
Every two years we give out awards to papers published within our consortium that are deemed to be exemplary. The first author receives a CHF 500 cash prize and a certificate.
To submit a paper, login to the intranet (NCCR Robotics members only) and follow the instructions under the Best Paper Award section or contact our Education Officer at education {@} nccr-robotics.ch

The 2016 PhD Best Paper was awarded to Jun Shintake for his paper "Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on mulifunctional polymer actuators" DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504264

A special mention was given to Michael Neunert for his paper "Fast nonliner Model Predictive Control for Unified Trajectory Optimization and Tracking" DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487274

Stanisa Raspopovic won the 2014 Best Postdoc paper for "Restoring Natural Sensory Feedback in Real-Time Bidirectional Hand Prostheses". DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3006820

Klas Kronander won the 2014 Best PhD paper for his paper entitled "Learning Compliant Manipulation through Tactile and Kinesthetic Human-Robot Interaction". DOI 10.1109/TOH.2013.54

The 2012 Best PhD Paper was awarded to Michal Dobrzynski for the paper "Quantifying information transfer through a head attached vibrotactile display: principles for design and control" DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2196433

David Remy won the 2012 Best Postdoc Paper Award for the paper "Quadrupedal Robots with Stiff and Compliant Actuation". DOI: https://doi.org/10.1524/auto.2012.1042

Edoardo d'Anna won a 2020 Best PhD Paper Award with the paper "A closed-loop hand prosthesis with simultaneous intraneural tactile and position feedback"
