• Honors & Distinctions
• Competition Awards
• International Top-3

Honors & Distinctions

2026

• 
  Best Paper Award (Efficient Image Annotation via Semi-Supervised Object Segmentation with Label Propagation)
  RoboCup Symposium
  Incheon, South Korea
  2026
  

2023

• 
  Finalist for Best Oral Paper Award (Robust Immersive Telepresence and Mobile Telemanipulation: NimbRo wins ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals)
  Humanoids
  Austin, USA
  2023
  

2021

• 
  Limbo (private built robot was awarded)
  Region56+ Award
  Koblenz, Germany
  2021
  [url][press]
• 
  Placed 1st in the Heart-Met Gesture Recognition Challenge / Placed 1st in the Heart-Met Action Recognition Challenge (AcRec@UniKoblenz)
  Metrics Project
  Online
  2021
  

2017

• 
  Lehrpreis Sommersemester 2017 | Projekt- und Forschungspraktikum: Robbie
  Lehrpreis der Hochschuldidaktischen Arbeitsstelle
  Koblenz, Germany
  2017
  

Competition Awards

International Top-3 Placements

• 2026
• 2025
• 2024
• 2022
• 2021
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013

2026

• 
  Placed 3rd in @Home Open Platform League, Best Poster Award, Best in Class General Purpose Service Robot
  RoboCup World Cup
  Incheon, South Korea
  2026
  [url]
• 
  Placed 1st in @Home League
  RoboCup German Open
  Cologne
  2026
  [url][press]

2025

• 
  Placed 2nd in @Home Open Platform League, Best Poster Award
  RoboCup World Cup
  Salvador, Brazil
  2025
  [url]
• 
  Placed 1st in @Home League
  RoboCup German Open
  Nuremberg
  2025
  [url][press]

2024

• 
  Placed 1st in @Home Open Platform League (World Champion), Waitress Captain (Best in Restaurant Test)
  RoboCup World Cup
  Eindhoven, Netherlands
  2024
  [url][press]
• 
  Placed 1st in @Home League
  RoboCup German Open
  Kassel
  2024
  [url][press]

2022

• 
  1st Place (NimbRo)
  ANA Avatar XPRIZE Challenge
  Las Vegas, USA
  2022
  [url][press]
• 
  1st in AdultSize Soccer Competition / 1st in AdultSize Technical Challenge / 1st in AdultSize Drop-In Challenge / Best Humanoid Award
  RoboCup World Cup
  Bangkok, Thailand
  2022
  [url][press]

2021

• 
  Placed 3rd in the Customer Interaction Category of the Future Convenience Store Challenge (private attendance)
  World Robot Summit
  Nagoya, Japan
  2021
  

2019

• 
  Placed 1st in @Home Open Platform League (World Champion)
  RoboCup World Cup
  Sydney, Australia
  2019
  [url][press]
• 
  Best in Professional Service Robots League
  European Robotics League
  Bonn (Germany), Koblenz (Germany)
  2019
  [press]
• 
  Best in Consumer Service Robots League
  European Robotics League
  Lisbon, Portugal
  2019
  [press]
• 
  Placed 3rd in @Home League
  RoboCup German Open
  Magdeburg
  2019
  [press]

2018

• 
  Placed 1st in @Home Open Platform League (World Champion) / Best Poster Award Open Platform League
  RoboCup World Cup
  Montreal, Canada
  2018
  [url][press]
• 
  Placed 3rd in the Customer Interaction Category of the Future Convenience Store Challenge
  World Robot Summit
  Tokyo, Japan
  2018
  [url][press]
• 
  Best in TBM1: Getting to know my home / Best in TBM2: Welcoming Visitors / Best in TBM3: Catering for Grannie Annie's Comfort / Best in TBM5: GPSR (some of them shared equally with other teams)
  European Robotics League
  Lisbon (Portugal), Edinburgh (Scotland), Barcelona (Spain)
  2018
  [url][press]
• 
  Placed 1st in @Home League
  RoboCup German Open
  Magdeburg
  2018
  [url][press]

2017

• 
  Placed 1st in @Home Open Platform League (World Champion)
  RoboCup World Cup
  Nagoya, Japan
  2017
  [url][press]
• 
  Finalist
  ICRA 2017 DJI RoboMaster Mobile Manipulation Challenge
  Singapore, Singapore
  2017
  
• 
  Placed 1st in @Home League
  RoboCup German Open
  Magdeburg
  2017
  [url]
• 
  Placed 2nd
  DJI RoboMaster Technical Challenge
  Shenzhen, China
  2017
  [press]
• 
  Best in TBM1: Getting to know my home, Best in TBM4: Visit my home (Navigation), Best in TBM5: GPSR
  European Robotics League
  Lisbon (Portugal), Peccioli (Italy)
  2017
  [url][press]

2016

• 
  Placed 2nd in @Home League
  RoboCup European Open
  Eindhoven, Netherlands
  2016
  [url][press]
• 
  Finalist in @Home League
  RoboCup World Cup
  Leipzig, Germany
  2016
  

2015

• 
  Placed 1st in @Home League (World Champion) / Placed 1st in Speech Recognition and Audio Detection / Best Looking Robot Award
  RoboCup World Cup
  Hefei, China
  2015
  [url][press]
• 
  1st in overall ranking (together with team SocRob) / Best Team award
  RoCKIn
  Lisboa, Portugal
  2015
  
• 
  Best Demonstration in RoCKIn@Home track
  RoCKIn Camp
  Peccioli, Italy
  2015
  
• 
  Placed 2nd in @Home League
  RoboCup German Open
  Magdeburg
  2015
  

2014

• 
  1st in the @Home Track / 2nd in Object Recognition
  RoCKIn
  Toulouse, France
  2014
  
• 
  Finalist in the @Home League
  RoboCup German Open
  Magdeburg
  2014
  
• 
  Best Final Demonstration in the RoCKIn@Home track
  RoCKIn Camp
  Rome
  2014
  

2013

• 
  Finalist in the @Home League
  RoboCup WorldCup
  Eindhoven, Netherlands
  2013
  
• 
  Placed 3rd in the @Home League
  RoboCup German Open
  Magdeburg
  2013