Yeah, I'm happy to be able to say a few words about my motivation concerning these kind

of things.

It's a little bit complicated.

Well, I was formerly the director of the DLR Robotics and Mechatronics Center near Munich.

I think when I left officially, I was still advisory of my institute.

In 2013, we were the largest institute for applied robotic research worldwide with about

350 co-workers.

And you see all the things here, Mars, space, robotics, the first ones, were the first ones

who sent the robot into space and controlled it from the Earth and so on.

And Robot Texas, elastic simulations of big airplanes, surgical robotics, and what we

call today the co-bots, lightweight robots, which are torque controlled and which are

copied now worldwide.

This was the first robot in space.

We had good luck, but it was amazing, 1993.

And then the lightweight robots, I remember a fair in Germany, the Hannover Fair, Germany,

USA was the topic, and Obama and our chancellor didn't see anything else than the lightweight

robots which you could touch from the company of KUKA, which was number one at that time,

now in Chinese hand.

Of course, this is the way these things work, and Chinese version of it, where you can see

that everywhere does it now.

It's no longer a secret.

And these are robots which are safe.

You can collaborate with them directly.

And maybe you know that Elon Musk has announced that he wants to replace every worker in the

industry in the near future.

He says, why did I focus on cars?

The much bigger market is the market of the industrial workers, and we need robots.

And within two years, he has made amazing progress.

And of course, humanoid robots should it be.

We have made over 20 years these experiments, robots catching balls and catching simultaneously

two balls and this just a little bit indicating.

And of course, in DLR, you made a presentation yesterday, is the idea of sending robots to

Mars, first controlling them from an orbit around Mars, and then let them operate autonomously.

OK, that's the background.

I come to one important point now in Oberpfaffenhofen, near my institute, not in my institute.

There was a camera developed, and many people say it's the biggest contribution of Germany

to the European space history.

It's the HRS-SC, high resolution stereo camera, which has flown around Mars now for 17 years.

And since last year, Mars has modeled the surface completely in 3D, although 10 meters

or so, the resolution is not so extremely high.

But this fascinated me, and it's a line camera, nine lines pointing to Earth.

And what we did in our institute, we developed a stereo algorithm, which is today worldwide

standard in modern photogrammetry, so-called semi-global matching.

And I took a ground model of this camera and flew over the Alps and developed this,

my people developed this new stereo algorithm.

And we have the whole Alps model, meanwhile, also Himalaya, and so from pictures from satellites

and so on.

But of course, I saw that, well, there are these drones coming.

But everything may be done with airplanes just, and so we started to model churches

and monasteries and so on, like you can see here.