These are the nominees for the Hermes Award

Award These are the nominees for the Hermes Award

2024-03-26 Source: Deutsche Messe | Translated by AI 1 min Reading Time

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For more than 20 years, Deutsche Messe has annually awarded a company with the Hermes Award as part of the Hannover Messe. The search is for a product with a particularly high degree of technological innovation. Market readiness is an important criterion.

The prize is presented by Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Federal Minister for Education and Research.(Image: Deutsche Messe) — The prize is presented by Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Federal Minister for Education and Research.
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The Hermes Award jury has determined the nominees for the industry prize. According to an announcement, the companies Bosch Rexroth, Schunk, and Siemens have made it to the final. The winner will be announced during the opening of the Hannover Messe on April 21, 2024. Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Federal Minister for Education and Research, will then present the prize.

Bosch Rexroth was nominated for its system for the industrial dismantling and recycling of batteries from electrically driven vehicles. With it, the transportation, contact making, diagnosing, deep discharging, and recycling of batteries are accelerated by a factor of 100. The discharge energy of the batteries is used directly in the process or fed into the supply network, it is further stated. Through recycling, up to 95 percent of the chemical elements are reintroduced into the production process and thus specifically recycled.

Schunk was nominated for its 2D Grasping Kit. This application kit consists of a camera with lens, an industrial PC, AI software, and an application-specific gripper. Thanks to AI-based modeling, training times for the system can be significantly reduced. According to the manufacturer, recurring sorting or logistics tasks can be automated with little effort.

The nominated product from Siemens is the CO2 management tool Sigreen. Emissions along the entire supply chain are made transparent in real-time and thus addressable. The system is based on real data instead of statistical averages.

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