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The Chair of Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg was honored with the Innovation & Technology Award at this year's Robotics Challenge of Arena2036. Further information can be found on the FAPS website.  

FAU ESI once again took part in the BayernInnovativ joint stand at the Hannover Messe 2025, which ended on April 4, 2025. There was a great deal of interest in “Research and Technology Transfer” in Hall 2, and Minister of State Aiwanger also visited the BayernInnovativ stand. We are delighted with t...

At the 10th specialist colloquium of the Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics (MHI e.V.) in Berlin, Dr. Maximilian Metzner, alumnus of the Chair of FAPS, was awarded the MHI Doctoral Prize 2024. The MHI Board of Directors recognized his outstanding dissertation on “Plann...

Julian Dahlmann, Andreas Völz and Knut Graichen received the Best Paper Award 2024 of the journal at – Automatisierungstechnik in the applications category for their work “A Concept for Automated Maneuvering of Vehicles with Trailers (in German)”. The award was presented at the 59th Control Engineer...

Frank Hannig received an “Outstanding Reviewer Award” for his reviewer activities as a member of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2025) conference. Only 1.7% of all 591 TPC members received the award. Hannig: “I am delighted that I was selected ...

“3D-HF-MID” - The DFG research group with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Franke from the Chair of FAPS as spokesperson starts on April 1, 2025 and researches the spatial design of high-frequency systems using integrated electronic 3D assemblies - so-called Mechatronic Integrated Devices (MID). An interdiscipli...

On Monday, March 31, 2025, FAU founded the 6G-Valley in cooperation with Fraunhofer IIS and LZE e. V. and celebrated the future cooperation in a grand opening. ESI member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norman Franchi (holder of the Chair of Intelligent Technical Electronics and Systems) is the initiator and coor...

ESI Speaker Prof. Jürgen Teich presented several prestigious EDA (Electronic Design Automation) awards as Awards Chair at the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 2025 conference.

The I4 was able to score three papers at the Workshops associated with EuroSys/ASPLOS. Dustin Nguyen presented his work Honey, I Shrunk the Guests (Best Paper Award) on deploying virtualisation extensions to observe processes at the HCDS workshop. You will find further information at the chair's ...

We are excited to announce the 3rd Annual Conference for Integrated Systems in Medical Technologies (ISMT), an esteemed event dedicated to advancing medical technology and interdisciplinary healthcare solutions. Date: 4th and 5th of December 2025 Location: Digital Health Innovation Platform (d.h...