Deutsche Messe has opened the submission period for the HERMES award until January 31. This award will be delivered by Bettina Stark-Watzinger, German Minister of Education and Research, March 30, 2025 within the framework of Hanover Fair. The organization has also called the HERMES Startup Award.
The German fair Every year, it awards a company in recognition of a product or solution that demonstrates high degree of technological innovation. Only the technological solutions that have already proven effective in industrial practice.
And independent jury chaired by Holger Hanselka, president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaftwill nominate three products for the award and three for the HERMES Startup AWARD, and will determine the winners from among the nominees. The degree of technological innovation, the benefits for industry, the environment and society, as well as profitability and readiness for practical implementation They are key criteria to evaluate which product deserves the award.
The prize HERMES AWARD 2024 has been awarded to Schunk for its 2D Grasping Kit project. This application kit consists of a camera with lens, an industrial PC, AI software and an application-specific clamp. The innovative nature of this project lies in the Generic AI-based modeling of component variants and transferring to a smaller training data set, reducing learning times for recognition. Even under changing light, color or background conditions, the intuitive user interface enables reliable picking and handling of randomly arranged and unpositioned parts from an infeed conveyor, tray or preparation table. This allows you to automate repetitive classification or logistics tasks with minimal effort.
