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About Bota Systems

We give machines the sense of touch.

Bota Systems' vision is for robots to work and move safely and as naturally and freely as human beings.

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As a developer and manufacturer of multi-axis force-torque sensors, torque sensors, and custom sensors, we strive to provide the best force-torque sensing solutions and user care experience.

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Our accomplished team of robotics, 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.

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Achievements

Bota Systems was founded by Klajd Lika, Ilias Patsiaouras and Marco Hutter from Robotic Systems Laboratory. It is the result of many years of research in the field of 6-axis force-torque sensing for robots, and the contribution of many talented engineers from 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!

Publications

Task and Configuration Space Compliance of Continuum Robots via Lie Group and Modal Shape Formulations

Orekhov, Andrew L., Garrison LH Johnston, and Nabil Simaan.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.13155 (2023)

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Bistable helical origami gripper for sensor placement on branches

Geckeler, Christian, and Stefano Mintchev.

Advanced Intelligent Systems 4, no. 10 (2022): 2200087.

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Real-time non-visual shape estimation and robotic dual-arm manipulation control of an elastic wire.

Mishani, Itamar, and Avishai Sintov

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7, no. 1 (2021): 422-429.

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Robotic assembly of timber joints using reinforcement learning

Apolinarska, Aleksandra Anna, Matteo Pacher, Hui Li, Nicholas Cote, Rafael Pastrana, Fabio Gramazio, and Matthias Kohler

Automation in Construction 125 (2021): 103569.

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Adaptive Force Controller for Contact-Rich Robotic Systems using an Unscented Kalman Filter

Schperberg, Alexander, Yuki Shirai, Xuan Lin, Yusuke Tanaka, and Dennis Hong

arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.01033 (2022)

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Low-velocity impact response of smart sandwich composite plates with piezoelectric tranducers: Modeling and experiments

Plagianakos, Theofanis S., Klajd Lika, and Evangelos G. Papadopoulos.

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures 27, no. 6 (2016): 774-785.

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Where Should I Walk? Predicting Terrain Properties from Images via Self-Supervised Learning

Wellhausen, Lorenz, Alexey Dosovitskiy, René Ranftl, Krzysztof Walas, Cesar Cadena, and Marco Hutter

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4, no. 2 (2019): 1509-1516.

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An Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulation Platform for Contact-Based Inspection

Bodie, Karen, Maximilian Brunner, Michael Pantic, Stefan Walser, Patrick Pfändler, Ueli Angst, Roland Siegwart, and Juan Nieto

Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, 2019

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ANYexo 2.0: A fully actuated upper-limb exoskeleton for manipulation and joint-oriented training in all stages of rehabilitation

Zimmermann, Yves, Michael Sommerhalder, Peter Wolf, Robert Riener, and Marco Hutter.

IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2023)

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Towards a passive adaptive planar foot with ground orientation and contact force sensing for legged robots

Käslin, Roman, Hendrik Kolvenbach, Laura Paez, Klajd Lika, and Marco Hutter.

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2707-2714. IEEE, 2018

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Towards autonomous inspection of concrete deterioration in sewers with legged robots

Kolvenbach, Hendrik, David Wisth, Russell Buchanan, Giorgio Valsecchi, Ruben Grandia, Maurice Fallon, and Marco Hutter.

Journal of field robotics 37, no. 8 (2020): 1314-1327.

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Quadrupedal Locomotion on Uneven Terrain With Sensorized Feet

Valsecchi, Giorgio, Ruben Grandia, and Marco Hutter.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5, no. 2 (2020): 1548-1555.

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