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Jan. 29, 2015

Trustees of the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Sandor Frankel and Walter Panzirer from the USA have made a visit to BGU to see robotics research that their foundation supports.

Now one of the largest philanthropic funding agencies in Israel, the Trust focuses on developing game-changing research, in this case with a $6.2 million donation to BGU in the field of Agricultural, Biological and Cognitive (ABC) robotics.
 
“The Helmsley Charitable Trust is proud to support the highly innovative robotics project at Ben-Gurion University which will help to make the world a better and safer place,” said Frankel.
 
ABC Robotics Initiative leader Prof. Yael Edan and her researchers showed the trustees and their wives research efforts to communicate with a computer using one’s mind, a robot that tracks and follows you, attempts to harvest energy generated from people walking, and a training system to prevent the elderly from falling.


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Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Trustees Walter Panzirer (left in orange shirt) and Sandor Frankel (center in brown sweater) and their wives get an inside look at innovative robotics research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on Wednesday. BGU President Prof. Rivka Carmi looks on (right in orange scarf)