On July 15, 2024, the Technology Field “Automated Production Systems” (TF APA) of the Chair of FAPS visited the Robotics Center of the company Jugard+Künstner in Altdorf. The visit provided in-depth insights into current robot applications and technologies. The visitors toured various robot appli...

Robotics is developing into a key technology for value creation, improved working conditions and support across all application domains in industry, the service sector, medicine and care, as well as in the private sphere. Wherever humans and autonomous technical systems should and want to cooperate,...

Digital technologies from the Internet of Things, cyber-physical production systems, the cloud and artificial intelligence are opening up new potential for product and process optimisation in the manufacturing industry. In addition to improving the classic target parameters of time, quality and cost...

We are delighted to announce the contribution of the FAPS Institute to the publication of the 2nd, updated edition of the ground-breaking handbook “Mensch-Roboter-Kollaboration”. With a comprehensive overview of the world of human-robot collaboration - its possibilities, goals and limitations - it h...

For years, the competences in Additive Manufacturing at FAPS have been bundled in the technology field of the same name, while the technology field MID (Mechatronic Integrated Devices) has focused on research of the LDS method and printed electronics technologies. Merging these two realms to one ne...

The three-year research project „Additive4Industry - Printed electronics on 3D substrates (A4I/PE3D)”, funded by BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) and administered by Projektträger Jülich, investigated additively manufactured ceramic cirucit carriers for electronic assemblies as wel...

"Formnext" in Frankfurt/Main is an international trade fair for additive manufacturing technologies as well as their pre- and post-processings. More than 800 exhibitors and more than 30.000 visitors from all over the world have met for networking and exchanging information: researchers, users, and e...

The institute FAPS' research project "ARKIDES" wins funding as part of the Federal Ministryfor Economic Affairs and Climate Action's GreenTech Innovation Competition technology programme. ARKIDES was selected as one of seven projects in the "Sustainability through digital technologies" category. ...

An overwhelming public interest made more than 600 curious visitors flock to the laboratory halls of the Chair of FAPS in Erlangen at the Long Night of Science 2023 on 21 October. This evening gives us the rare opportunity to present our research to the general public and to get the young and old v...

As Germany's most innovative university, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) focuses on transforming research findings into sustainable innovations. A central aspect of this mission is the targeted promotion of start-ups. In a workshop organized by BayStartUP exclusively for t...