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Fraunhofer IPA strengthens AI robotics in Heilbronn with new branch office

Since October 2025, the site has offered several demonstrators for AI-based robotics.

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Fraunhofer IPA founds Robotics Institute Germany

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA is a co-founder of the Robotics Institute Germany (RIG). The RIG aims to bring together Germany's top research into AI-based robotics.

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United Robotics receives usage rights to laboratory robot Kevin

The United Robotics Group (URG) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation IPA have signed a license agreement as part of their newly concluded technological partnership.

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Two additive manufacturing processes in comparison

A team from the center for additive manufacturing at Fraunhofer IPA evaluated the technical and economic potential of selective absorption fusion versus selective laser sintering.

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Fraunhofer IPA is being expanded

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA is getting a new building in Stuttgart-Vaihingen. With the groundbreaking ceremony on September 27, Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Economic Affairs, Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, symbolically opened the construction site together with Thomas Bauernhansl, director of the Fraunhofer IPA, and the architect Stephan Birk.

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Tracking Down Human Actions with AI

What is a person doing right now and what conclusions can be drawn from it? This recognition and understanding of human actions is the main function of a new software library based on machine learning that researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA have developed. Its main advantage is its easy adaptability to new application scenarios.