Richard Bormann
Fraunhofer IPA
Dipl.-Ing. Richard Bormann (M. Sc.) heads the Handling and Intralogistics research team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. After completing his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Engineering Cybernetics at the Universities of Magdeburg and Stuttgart and his master's degree in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, he was responsible for numerous national and international research and industrial projects on robotic solutions for logistics and handling, professional cleaning and care support at Fraunhofer IPA as project manager for image processing and gripping technologies. His research team's current work focuses on robot perception, grasp planning and handling solutions for industrial and warehouse applications in bin picking, bin packing, order fulfillment, palletizing and mobile handling robots.