Nikolaus Vahrenkamp
received his Diploma and Ph.D. degrees from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in 2005 and 2011, respectively. During his PhD he developed the Grasping and Manipulation Pipeline of ARMAR-III. From 2011 to 2012, he was senior post-doc at the Cognitive Humanoids Lab of the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), where he worked on grasp and motion planning for the humanoid robot iCub.
His research interests include humanoid robots, motion planning, grasping and sensor-based motion execution.
He is the main developer of the robot simulation toolbox Simox.