Georges Giralt PhD Award

The Georges Giralt PhD Award is a European scientific prize for extraordinary contributions to robotics.

[1][2][3][4][5] Georges Giralt received his PhD in 1958, from Paul Sabatier University, in the domain of electrical machines, and soon afterwards became a pioneer in robotics, in Europe and worldwide.

He was especially instrumental in bringing in scientific foundations and methodology when the domain was still young, and a loose coupling of mechanical and electrical engineering, adopting the early results of automatic control.

With more than 250 member organisations,[6] euRobotics represents the academic and industrial robotics community in Europe.

[7][8][9] Entitled for participation in the Georges Giralt PhD Award are all robotics-related dissertations which have been successfully defended at a European university.