Product profile
AIMM
AIMM is DLR's Autonomous Intelligent Mobile Manipulator research prototype, combining a holonomic mobile base, manipulator, tool changer, pan-tilt stereo v...
Facts
- Company
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
- Product type
- mobile_manipulator
- Status
- research
- Primary capability
- autonomous_mobile_manipulation
- Website
- https://www.dlr.de/en/rm/research/robotic-systems/mobile-platforms/aimm
About AIMM
AIMM is DLR's Autonomous Intelligent Mobile Manipulator research prototype, combining a holonomic mobile base, manipulator, tool changer, pan-tilt stereo vision and an onboard autonomy stack for manufacturing and laboratory tasks.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Autonomous mobile manipulator
Core: Research platform for mobile manipulation
Function: Perceives, navigates and manipulates articulated objects in partially unstructured workspaces
Audience: Robotics researchers and industrial automation teams
Specifications
- autonomy_stack
- Onboard software stack for perception, reasoning and manipulation
- degrees_of_freedom
- 13 DoF
- dimensions
- 110 × 61 × 225 cm
- sensors
- Two SICK S300 laser scanners, RC Viscore stereo camera and color camera
- speed_mps_range
- 1–1.5 m/s
- tool_changer
- Integrated tool changer
- weight_kg
- Approximately 450 kg kg
- workspace
- Up to 2 m height
Operations
- Environment
- laboratory_environment, manufacturing_environment, hazardous_environments
- Primary user
- robotics_researchers, industrial_automation_teams, laboratory_operators
- Role
- autonomous_mobile_manipulation, laboratory_automation, industrial_material_handling, hazardous_environment_operations
- Interaction model
- autonomous_mission_execution, mobile_manipulation, tool_changing, human_robot_collaboration
- Mobility class
- holonomic_mobile_base, mobile_manipulator
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- DLR and SCHUNK expand humanoid-hand technology-transfer partnership — 2026-03-23
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics presents robotics highlights at automatica 2025 — 2025-06-24
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics and Siemens launch research collaboration on the production of the future — 2025-03-25
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics researcher Manuel Keppler wins Georges Giralt PhD Award — 2024-03-14
- DLR publishes overview paper for torque-controlled humanoid TORO — 2014-11-18