The Engleberger Robotics Award

“Con­tribut­ing to the advance­ment of the sci­ence of robot­ics in the ser­vice of mankind.” This is the inscrip­tion on the medal­lion bestowed to the win­ners of The Engel­berg­er Robot­ics Award each year. This pres­ti­gious award is named after Joseph F. Engel­berg­er, the found­ing force behind indus­tri­al robot­ics. He was the founder and pres­i­dent of Uni­ma­tion, Inc., the world’s first indus­tri­al robot manufacturer.

The Engel­berg­er Robot­ics Award is the world’s most pres­ti­gious robot­ics hon­or. The awards are pre­sent­ed to deserv­ing recip­i­ents who have demon­strat­ed excel­lence in tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­ment, appli­ca­tion, edu­ca­tion, and lead­er­ship in the robot­ics indus­try. Each win­ner receives $5000 along with the medallion.

The awards com­menced in 1977, and have been pre­sent­ed to 116 robot­ics lead­ers from 17 dif­fer­ent nations. The USA leads the num­ber of recip­i­ents with 59 medals.

An award com­mit­tee con­sist­ing of the past pres­i­dents of the Robot­ic Indus­tries Asso­ci­a­tion reviews the nom­i­nees and choos­es the award recip­i­ents. They are pre­sent­ed with their award at the Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium on Robotics.

In 2006, Kevin Ost­by, vice pres­i­dent of Region­al Oper­a­tions for North and South Amer­i­ca for Fanuc Robot­ics, was award­ed the Engel­berg­er Robot­ics Award. Ost­by was respon­si­ble for the sig­nif­i­cant expan­sion of Fanuc into a vari­ety of mar­kets, includ­ing food and bev­er­age, plas­tics, and con­sumer goods.

In 2005, Craig Jen­nings, the pres­i­dent and COO of Motoman, Inc., was award­ed the Engel­berg­er Robot­ics Award. He is cred­it­ed with build­ing Motoman into an indus­tri­al robot pow­er­house. He moved Motoman into appli­ca­tions in med­ical robots. Fur­ther, he saved the indus­tri­al robot indus­try mil­lions of dol­lars by orga­niz­ing an indus­try effort to reverse improp­er tar­iffs levied on robots.

Robots​.com ties in to many robot­ic awards through­out the nation. We are proud sup­port­ers of encour­ag­ing com­pa­nies, stu­dents, and oth­ers to engage in robot­ics to improve the industry. 

Con­tact Robots​.com rep­re­sen­ta­tives online or at 877−762−6881.