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AWARDS

GOSCON Award

GOSCON 2009 Excellence Awards for Open Source Business Use in Government

Through the USARSim and MOAST open source projects, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is promoting performance evaluation and benchmarking for robot systems and facilitating innovations in robotics. These tools and the open source approach have greatly enhanced and streamlined the robotics development process as evidenced by over 50,000 downloads, collaboration among fifteen developers and over 100 users, and two major international robotics competitions based upon the software.

Winner's Name

Fred Proctor, Joe Falco and Steve Balakirsky

Awarded

November 5, 2009

Awarding Organization

GOSCON

For promoting performance evaluation and benchmarking for robot systems and facilitating innovations in robotics

Robotics in manufacturing