The Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek is causing a stir - and should spur Europe on to more innovation, according to DFKI. While China is catching up and breaking new ground, there is a lack of major investment in Germany for its own AI models.
Stefan Baumgart, Director Product Management at TeamViewer, talks about how AI and AR 2025 can help predict and prevent disruptions in production operations.
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Robotics and automation in Germany has lost competitiveness: For 2025, the industry is forecasting a total turnover of minus 9% to 13.8 billion euros. Last year, companies closed with a turnover of minus 6% at 15.2 billion euros.
The AI boom has caused tech shares to rise ever higher. Now a start-up from China wants to develop its artificial intelligence at a very low price. This is shaking up the stock market and Silicon Valley.
The fact that a start-up from China trained its AI model at a low price triggered a price slide in the USA. For experts, however, it is a sign that artificial intelligence can be developed more quickly.
Thermography-based hand detection using machine learning offers a promising solution for increasing safety in human-robot collaboration (HRC).
Sereact has announced that it has received €25 million in funding to accelerate the application of its Vision Language Action Model (VLAM) in robotics.
From June 24 to 27, 2025, Automatica, the trade fair for intelligent automation and robotics, will bring industry and research together in six exhibition halls. Preparations are in full swing.
From March 11 to 14, 2025, the next edition of the Intec and Z industrial trade fairs will present a platform dedicated exclusively to production technology for electrolyzers and fuel cells for the first time.
On the inauguration of Donald Trump
VDMA President Bertram Kawlath comments on the inauguration and the first announcements of US President Donald Trump:
The power electronics manufacturer Semikron Danfoss uses the EGU 50 mechatronic parallel gripper from Schunk in a robotic cell. It handles different components and feeds them to a measuring line. With its functionalities, it meets all requirements for process reliability, flexibility, gripping stroke and gripping force maintenance.
"The German machine tool industry considers itself to be very well positioned in international competition, despite the numerous challenges," reported Franz-Xaver Bernhard, Chairman of the VDW (German Machine Tool Builders' Association), Frankfurt am Main, at the association's annual press conference.
Marina Nehmiz, Strategic Business Unit Management System Solutions, SEW-Eurodrive Germany, in an interview.
Protection through zero-trust segmentation
The development of Industry 4.0 has led to increased automation and networking of manufacturing systems, which brings significant benefits for the efficiency and flexibility of production processes. However, this increasing connectivity also increases the risks in the area of cyber security.
Insecure consumers, ailing industry, falling exports: Germany is experiencing its second year of recession in a row. The prospects for Europe's largest economy in 2025 are fragile.
More than 100 years ago, five precision mechanics laid the foundation stone for today's DMG Mori Pfronten GmbH. At that time, the company produced scribing tools, planimeters and so-called "pantographs". The company then became a machine tool manufacturer in 1950.
With more than 120,000 square meters of exhibition space, LogiMAT 2025 will once again occupy all ten halls of the Stuttgart exhibition grounds. From March 11 to 13, global players, medium-sized companies and start-ups will provide an overview of the latest products and innovations in the intralogistics industry with numerous world premieres and offer solutions to current challenges.
In 2024, the automotive industry's color palette is undergoing a remarkable transformation. Consumers are increasingly moving away from traditional white and silver. Vibrant colors, warm neutrals and a wider variety of colors are becoming more popular in the industry. This is according to the latest Color Report for Automotive OEM Coatings from BASF Coatings.
"Synapticon Intelligence" business unit...
Synapticon, provider of solutions for integrated motion, announced the launch of Synapticon Intelligence as an internal project in the spring. Now the company is taking the next step and establishing Synapticon Intelligence as an independent business unit, which will be based at the AI xpress center in Böblingen.
EU project "BASE" develops battery passport
The energy transition in road transport and the electricity sector needs batteries as energy storage devices. But whether their production and recycling is considered "green" according to ecological and social standards is regularly questioned.
