About Bota Systems
We give robots the sense of touch.
Bota Systems' vision is for robots to work and move safely and as natural and free as humans.
As a developer and manufacturer of multi-axis force-torque sensors, torque sensors, and custom sensors, we are diligent about providing the best force-torque sensing solutions and user care experience.
Our team of accomplished robotic, software, and mechanical engineers continually develops highly-integrated and advanced sensors to support a wide range of applications.
Whether used for research or industry, we aim to streamline the process.
We are an ETH Robotic Systems Lab spin-off.
Achievements
Bota Systems was officially founded in 2020 and is the result of years of research in the field of force-torque sensing for robots, the contribution of many talented engineers within two distinguished robotic laboratories (Robotic Systems Lab of ETH Zürich and Control Systems Lab of NTUA), and the support from Gebert Rüf Stiftung, NCCR Robotics, ESA BIC Switzerland and Venture Kick.
We are currently hiring!
If you would like to work with us, feel free to send a spontaneous application at join@botasys.com
The Team
The Bota Systems team is small and robust, just like our sensors! Our team resides in Zurich, Switzerland and the people come from all over the world. Collectively, we speak six different languages, come from four different countries, and have over 55 years of experience.
Ilias Patsiaouras,
CTO Co-Founder
Cecilia Axenhorn Edgren,
Business Administrator
Martin Wermelinger, Robotics Engineer
Mike Karamousadakis,
Software Engineer
Lefteris Kotsonis,
Software Engineer
Advisors
Publications
Active Interaction Force Control for Omnidirectional Aerial Contact-Based Inspection
Karen Bodie , Maximilian Brunner , Michael Pantic , Stefan Walser, Patrick Pfandler, Ueli Angst, ¨ Roland Siegwart, and Juan Nieto
Perceptive Model Predictive Control for Continuous Mobile Manipulation
Johannes Pankert and Marco Hutter,
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 5, Issue 4, Oct. 2020
Haptic Inspection of Planetary Soils With Legged Robots
Hendrik Kolvenbach , Christian Bartschi, Lorenz Wellhausen ¨ , Ruben Grandia , and Marco Hutter,
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 4, Issue 2, Apr. 2019
Tactile Inspection of Concrete Deterioration in Sewers with Legged Robots
Hendrik Kolvenbach, Giorgio Valsecchi, Ruben Grandia, Antoni Ruiz, Fabian Jenelten and Marco Hutter
Quadrupedal Locomotion on Uneven Terrain With Sensorized Feet
Giorgio Valsecchi , Ruben Grandia , and Marco Hutter
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, VOL. 5, NO. 2, APRIL 2020
Towards autonomous inspection of concrete deterioration in sewers with legged robots
Hendrik Kolvenbach, David Wisth, Russell Buchanan, Giorgio Valsecchi, Ruben Grandia, Maurice Fallon, Marco Hutter
Special Issue on Field and Service Robotics (FSR) 2019, Volume 37, Issue 8
Towards a passive adaptive planar foot with ground orientation and contact force sensing for legged robots
R Käslin, H Kolvenbach, L Paez, K Lika, M Hutter
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
ANYexo: A Versatile and Dynamic Upper-Limb Rehabilitation Robot
Yves Dominic Zimmermann, Alessandro Forino, Robert Riener and Marco Hutter
An Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulation Platform for Contact-Based Inspection
Karen Bodie, Maximilian Brunner , Michael Pantic, Stefan Walser , Patrick Pfandler , Ueli Angst , Roland Siegwart and Juan Nieto
Robotics: Science and Systems 2019 15(19)
Where Should I Walk? Predicting Terrain Properties from Images via Self-Supervised Learning
Wellhausen, Lorenz; Dosovitskiy, Alexey; Ranftl, René; Walas, Krzysztof; Cadena Lerma, Cesar; Hutter, Marco
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4(2)
Haptic Inspection of Planetary Soils with Legged Robots
Kolvenbach, Hendrik; Bärtschi, Christian; Wellhausen, Lorenz; Grandia, Ruben; Hutter, Marco
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4(2)
Low-velocity impact response of smart sandwich composite plates with piezoelectric tranducers: Modeling and experiments
TS Plagianakos, K Lika, EG Papadopoulos
Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures 27 (6), 774-785
