Overwhelming success: digital lab day 2025 impresses across the board

International platform for laboratory digitization extended by one week

15-May-2025 - The digital lab day 2025 on May 14 was a great success and underlines the growing importance of digital events for the laboratory sector. With 2,271 registered participants from all over the world and a comprehensive program, the event offered a unique platform for knowledge transfer, innovation ...

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 ...

Focus on a climate-neutral future: We Do - tesa Sustainability Report 2024 shows impressive progress

Focus on climate-neutral production: 39% CO₂ reduction already achieved in Scope 1 and Scope 2

24-Apr-2025 - tesa is consistently pursuing its sustainability course and presents the results in the Sustainability Report 2024. By 2030, the company will invest around 300 million euros in the transformation of its business with the aim of achieving climate-neutral production (Scope 1 and 2). The investments ...

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 ...

European chemical companies pessimistic for 2025: recovery not foreseeable until 2026

Green transformation remains one of the top management priorities alongside digitalization and AI

03-Apr-2025 - After a sobering financial year in 2024 ("lost year"), the leading European chemical companies are still not forecasting any significant recovery for 2025. A cautiously positive development is only expected in the second half of the year - provided that a global trade war or a lack of economic ...

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 ...

Between test tube and algorithm: the laboratory of the future under the microscope

Study on the transformation of laboratories

06-Mar-2025 - The digitalization of laboratories in the life sciences industry holds enormous potential, but many companies are facing major challenges. While some projects and initiatives have already been launched, there is often a lack of an overarching approach to overcoming technological, strategic and ...

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 ...