To contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Stuttgart research institute quickly developed a prototype of a mobile cleaning and disinfection robot. It autonomously travels to potentially contaminated objects such as door handles, thoroughly disinfects them, and does so in a resource-efficient and…

TRUMPF and Fraunhofer IPA conclude research cooperation until 2025. The goal is to develop solutions for networked sheet metal manufacturing with Artificial Intelligence.

The high-tech company TRUMPF and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA in Stuttgart have agreed on…

Autonomous, green, complex, faster, and more flexible: Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA, together with management consultants from Ginkgo Management Consulting, have studied how supply chain management will change by the year 2040.

The self-drivin…

For assembly tasks, flexible robot programming has so far been complex. Improving this is the goal of the research project »Rob-aKademI«, which started on July 1, 2020. The technologies used within, especially machine learning, are intended to make programming easier and more autonomous.

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Small and medium medical-technology enterprises (SME) in Baden Württemberg are set to soon use artifical intelligence (AI) methods for the improvement and new development of their products. The expertise for this has been provided by the Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology (P…

The media have long declared the industrial revolution "Industry 4.0" along with its offshoots like "Mobility 4.0," but little of this has yet been felt in everyday manufacturing. The biggest obstacle is safety concerns, while the technical possibilities for entering digitalization and networking ar…

In order to design assembly workplaces in a more employee-focused manner, a researcher from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA has not only determined the requirements of people, but also evaluated machine data. With this approach, the researcher’s aim is to…

Medium-sized medical technology companies in Baden-Württemberg are soon expected to utilize methods of artificial intelligence (AI) for the further development or new development of their products. The know-how is provided by the project group for automation in medicine and biotechnology PAMB of th…

The Fraunhofer IPA has decades of experience in the field of surface technology and combines these competencies at the Center for Particle Technology, further integrating the specialized departments of Cleanroom and Microproduction as well as the Center for Additive Manufacturing. This systematicall…

The automotive suppliers Kromberg & Schubert planned to resume production activities with the help of Fraunhofer IPA. Protecting its customers and employees from coronavirus was the company’s highest priority right from the very beginning. The measures developed are currently being implemented…