2nd place in the Business Ideas category

Autonome gleisfahrbare Schraubmaschine

Niklas Bavendamm and Jan-Hendrik Koch (University of Bremen)

For the construction of railway tracks, the rails must be attached to the sleepers using large screws. Currently, this step involves using so-called "track-mounted screwing machines," which track workers push along the rail and navigate to the respective screws to tighten them. This autonomous system will automate, optimize, and significantly accelerate this process using intelligent image processing.