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Manuela Ockel from the Chair of Manufacturing Automation and Production Systems of ESI member Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Franke and project partner Andre Borchers from Fraunhofer IKTS took first place in the open competition of the Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Working Group. The joint contribution from ...

A new procedure should help people with nerve damage or amputations to regain at least some of their motor abilities. An AI algorithm assesses and interprets the residual nerve activity in the affected part of the body. Often, all it needs is a few minutes of training before a patient is able to mov...

Two of the ten “Most Influential Papers” of the last 20 years of the International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC) are from the Chair of Hardware-Software Co-Design at FAU. The publications were selected based on several quality criteria in a multi-stage process. ESI-Member PD D...

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 ...

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 “Plan...

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 Enginee...

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 interdiscipl...

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 coo...