Christoph Schell Appointed CEO of KUKA Group

05-May-2025 - Christoph Schell has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of KUKA AG. The technology manager and CCO of Intel will succeed Peter Mohnen on July 1, who is leaving the company at his own request after 13 years on the KUKA Executive Board. In Christoph Schell, KUKA has gained an ...

3D-printed open-source robot offers accessible solution for materials synthesis

Practical, cost-effective solution for accelerating innovation in materials science

14-Apr-2025 - FLUID, an open-source, 3D-printed robot, offers an affordable and customizable solution for automated material synthesis, making advanced research accessible to more scientists. A team of researchers led by Professor Keisuke Takahashi at the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, have created ...

The proportion of harmful substances in particulate matter is much higher than assumed

Measured from the air in real time

02-Apr-2025 - People breathing contaminated air over the course of years are at greater risk of developing numerous diseases. This is thought to be due to highly reactive components in particulate matter, which affect biological processes in the body. However, researchers from the University of Basel have now ...

Just take a photo to determine the chemical composition

Chemists use machine learning and robotics to identify chemical compositions from images

21-Mar-2025 - Florida State University chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By using robotics to prepare thousands of samples and artificial intelligence to analyze their data, they created a simple, ...

Data recycling with AI: How new knowledge is created from old information

Munich start-up combats data chaos

17-Mar-2025 - Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, outdated databases - unstructured data sources are piling up in many companies, making it difficult to access valuable information. Technical specifications, standard documents and historical test reports often contain valuable findings, but remain hidden in inaccessible ...

Not humans or robots, but humans and robots

A perspective for AI-driven self-controlled laboratories of the future

12-Feb-2025 - The urgent need for a transition to sustainable energy sources demands a significant acceleration of traditional research and development cycles. Self-driving labs (SDLs), powered by artificial intelligence (AI), could play a pivotal role in this transformation. In a perspective paper in the ...

Advanced Automation Technologies (AAT) acquires TE Instruments

Expansion of combustion elemental analyser portfolio

03-Feb-2025 - Advanced Automation Technologies, a platform of laboratory-automation brands backed by global investment firm Battery Ventures, announced the acquisition of TE Instruments (“TEI”). Headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands, and with a sales subsidiary in Houston, TX, TE Instruments specializes in ...

New insights into bonding nature of antimony – implications for materials research

The findings could be used to optimise material properties

24-Jan-2025 - A new study that provides unprecedented insights into the chemical bonding of antimony could have a profound impact on materials research. The collaboration between scientists from Leipzig University, RWTH Aachen University and the DESY synchrotron in Hamburg combined experimental measurements ...

Festo Celebrates its Centenary – 100 Years in Motion!

Innovation and Responsibility – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

20-Jan-2025 - Creating added value for customers through innovation has been the driving force behind the family-owned company from the very beginning and remains the key to Festo's success today. With its constant determination to make people's work easier and thus increase efficiency, Festo has shaped an ...

Strengthening Filling Technology: Fricke strategically reorganizes business unit

Bundling expertise for more innovation and customer proximity

09-Jan-2025 - The Minden-based mechanical engineering specialist Fricke Abfülltechnik GmbH & Co. KG is taking a strategically important step towards strengthening its market position by reorganizing its filling technology business unit (BU) as of January 1, 2025. Functions that were previously organized ...