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Final Event Project CoboTank

4 December 2025 18:00

The event took place as part of the “Future Day on Liquid Bulk Logistics – Innovations for Efficiency, Safety and Sustainability in Inland Shipping and Tank Storage” at the DST – Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems (DST…

Invitation to the Closing Ceremony

4 December 2025 10:30

Anlässlich des Projektabschlusses lädt das Projekt CoboTank am 4. Dezember in das DST - Entwicklungszentrum für … Schiffstechnik und Transportsysteme e.V. in Duisburg ein. Der Tag steht unter dem Motto:

The CoboTank 1:1 has arrived

31 October 2025 15:38

Today, the CoboTank – a full-scale 1:1 collaborative robot – was delivered to the Chair of Mechatronics at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Publications

9 July 2025 14:02

Veröffentlichungen: • M. Nieradzik et al., "Automating the Loading Process of Inland Tank Vessels," Autonomous Inland and Short Sea Shipping Conference (AISS 2022), Duisburg, Deutschland, 19.-20. Sep. 2022, Verfügbar unter:

Best Paper Award

6 June 2025 00:00

Best Paper Award for CoboTank Publication at CogSIMA 2025 … A publication from the research project CoboTank has been honored with the Best Paper Award at the international conference IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of…

CoboTank with POH at tl Munich

3 June 2025 09:30

In a Changing World, transport logistic 2025 Demonstrates What Logistics Must and Can Deliver Today … The international trade fair for logistics, mobility, IT, and supply chain management, featuring the integrated air cargo Europe…

The CoboTank has arrived

17 December 2024 11:00

The scaled demonstrator of the collaborative robot to support the loading process of inland tankers is now ready for test series at the HaFoLa test centre. Good things come to those who wait:

Stress Test on Board

20 November 2024 10:00

Over the past few months, our team has already successfully completed stress measurements in connection with the hose connection process in tank farms and on board ships.

IHATEC networking workshop

6 November 2024 16:00

The second networking workshop for the IHATEC, DigiTest and DTW funding programmes took place yesterday at the TÜV Rheinland Group site in Cologne.

Market Research

4 September 2024 15:24

The CoboTank project aims to develop and test collaborative and automated robotic systems to support the handling process of inland tankers and is funded as part of the IHATEC (Innovative Port Technologies)…

Validation of the human-machine interface

30 July 2024 15:09

At the end of last year, members of the Cobotank team had the opportunity to discuss the human-machine interface and the specific design of the display with pupils from the Schiffer-Berufskolleg RHEIN e.V. (ESD) in several focus group interviews.

CoboTank at the VDI Mechatronics Conference 2024

14 March 2024 00:00

Mr Markus Nieradzik (Department of Mechatronics, University Duisburg-Essen) presented the "Conceptual design of a semi-automated robotic system for optimising the loading process of inland tankers…

Human-machine interface

1 December 2023 16:25

Today CoboTank held another round of discussions at the Schiffer-Berufskolleg Rhein.

Overall project meeting in Haren (Ems)

26 October 2023 00:00

This time, the CoboTank project team is meeting for two intensive days at its partner, Reederei Deymann in Haren. One year into the project, the workshop is about briefly reviewing the milestones achieved and planning the tasks ahead.

BMDV invites us to a conference

5 October 2023 00:00

The Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, Dr. Volker Wissing, invites to a specialist conference. Background:

HaFoLa opens its doors

4 September 2023 00:00

On 4 September 2023, HaFoLa, the test centre for innovative port and handling technologies, was inaugurated under the patronage of the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Transport, Oliver Krischer, and in the presence of many partners, friends…

CoboTank meets PortSkill 4.0

16 June 2023 00:00

The representatives of the PortSkill 4.0 and CoboTank project consortia met today at Port of Hamburg Marketing office in Hamburg's Speicherstadt district.

CoboTank at TL Munic

10 May 2023 00:00

The Transport Logistic fair in Munich is the largest transport fair worldwide. It is normally organised every two years, and this spring it took place in Messe München from the 9th until the 12th of May.

Tank farm operators approve CoboTank concept

17 April 2023 00:00

On 17 April 2023, the Development Centre for Ship Technology and Transport Systems and its research partners in the CoboTank joint project welcomed members of the Independent Tank Storage Association to a workshop in Duisburg.

Measurement of stress levels

12 April 2023 00:00

The partners from the Chair of Cognition at the University of Duisburg-Essen have launched the first round of stress measurements for employees on ships and on land. The tests included devices along the body joints and eye-tracking technology.

CoboTank turns to Antwerp

21 February 2023 00:00

CoboTank project partners on a mission in Antwerp! The CoboTank project is about developing and testing collaborative and automated robotic systems to support the loading process of inland tankers.

CoboTank concept-finding workshop in Hamburg

20 January 2023 00:00

At the beginning of 2023, the project team came together under the guidance of GUIDE Innovation Manager Till Schlusen and external coach Leopold Rosenthal as part of a concept-finding workshop to fruitfully combine the input of all those involved.

Partners present CoboTank at the BMDV networking conference

28 September 2022 00:00

Numerous projects from the ‘Innovative Port Technologies’ (IHATEC) and ‘Digital Test Fields in Ports’ (DigiTest) funding programmes of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV)…

Visit to a tank farm in Hamburg

21 September 2022 00:00

CoboTank, the project to optimise the loading processes of tankers through partially and fully automated solutions using robotic systems, is picking up speed. The CoboTank team has visited the first tank terminals in Hamburg.

Kick-off for the CoboTank project at DST

21 July 2022 10:41

The project ‘Development and testing of collaborative and automated robotic systems to support the loading process of tankers’ (CoboTank for short) started with a kick-off event in Duisburg.

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