Common development

Heli Aviation develops together with the KUKA Roboter GmbH and and the Human Perception, Cognition and Action Department of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics the technical solution of the Heli Trainer.

KUKA Roboter GmbH

KUKA Roboter GmbH
Zugspitzstraße 140
86165 Augsburg
» www.kuka-robotics.com

KUKA Roboter GmbH, with its headquarters in Augsburg, is a KUKA Aktiengesellschaft company and ranks among the world’s leading suppliers of industrial robots. Core competencies are the development, production and sale of industrial robots, controllers, software and linear units. The company is the market leader in Germany and Europe, and the number three in the world.

The KUKA Robot Group employs about 2000 people worldwide. Of these, some 1100 are employed in Germany. In 2009, sales totaled 330.5 million euro. 25 subsidiaries provide a presence in the major markets of Europe, America and Asia.

Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Department of Human Perception,
Cognition and Action
Spemannstr. 38
72076 Tübingen
» http://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen works on the elucidation of cognitive processes using experimental, theoretical and methodological approaches. The Human Perception, Cognition and Action Department under Prof. Dr. Heinrich H. Bülthoff uses traditional psychophysical methods, computer graphics and simulation technology to advance our understanding of perception and cognitive processes in the human brain.

About 70 biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists and psychologists are working on perception processes such as object recognition/categorization, sensorimotor integration and spatial cognition. In the CYBERNEUM opened in 2005, computer graphics and virtual realities are used for simulating natural environments to conduct research on human perception and action under controlled test conditions in a closed perception-action loop. Prof. Bülthoff’s department is a major partner in various international and European research projects.