Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS

Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS

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Safetronic 2025

The international Safetronic conference (November 12–13, 2025) holistically adresses the safety of road vehicles. Register now.

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Safe Intelligence — this forms the core brand of the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS.

Connected cognitive systems drive innovation in many sectors, including mobility, healthcare, and automation in industry. Disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing play a key role here. Fraunhofer IKS is conducting research to ensure that these applications are reliable and verifiably safe. We consider resilience and intelligence to be part of the same process.

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Production / 17.7.2025

Autonomous Systems on a Leash

A precisely defined operating environment is not only important for autonomous driving. The Operational Design Domain (ODD) also ensures safety for many other highly automated systems in rail transport, logistics and mobile robotics.

Autonomous Systems
 

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Artificial Intelligence / 9.7.2025

An alliance that benefits customers

Fraunhofer IKS has joined the Fraunhofer Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Alliance. According to the Institute Director Mario Trapp, exchange and collaboration within the alliance make it possible to pool expertise and create synergies - to the benefit of customers.

Fraunhofer Alliance
 

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Portrait Lena Heidemann / 26.6.2025

"I have always tried to give myself the space to just try everything out."

Lena Heidemann has been part of the Fraunhofer IKS since November 2020. She initially joined the institute as a student assistant. Since November 2021, she has been a research engineer in the Industrial Sensing Systems department. Her curiosity, openness and willingness to simply try out new things led her to research.

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Quantum Computing / 25.6.2025

How secure are quantum machine learning systems?

Machine learning models are exposed to malicious external attacks that drastically falsify results and assessments - to the harm of people in safety-critical situations. Defense strategies already exist. But what happens when quantum computing comes into play? Together with partners, Fraunhofer IKS has taken a close look at the first approaches to averting danger.

Quantum Computing

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Safetronic 2025:
Registration open

For the fifth time, Fraunhofer IKS will host the international Safetronic conference in 2025. The event will take place on November 12 and 13, 2025. Register now!

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15.4.2025

Fraunhofer IKS is now part of the Fraunhofer Big Data AI Alliance

Fraunhofer IKS is a member of the Fraunhofer Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Alliance. It combines the broad range of industry expertise and years of experience of more than 30 Fraunhofer institutes and supports companies by implementing Big Data and AI strategies.

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1.6.2024

New Deputy Director of the Institute Dr. Reinhard Stolle

As of June 1, Dr. Reinhard Stolle, Head of Business Unit Mobility, has assumed additional responsibilities as Deputy Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS.

His profile page provides an overview of his previous work and projects at Fraunhofer IKS.

 

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White paper

The European Artificial Intelligence Act - Overview and Recommendations for Compliance

This whitepaper published by Fraunhofer IKS provides an overview of the most important provisions of the EU AI Act.

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Information on the new building in Garching

Fraunhofer IKS is getting a new institute building at the Fraunhofer campus in Garching near Munich. The groundbreaking ceremony with Bavaria's Minister President Dr. Markus Söder and Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger in October marked the official start of construction. On our new building page you will find all information about the construction progress in German.

Construction page (German)
 

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All news

You can find all the Institute's news on our News page. Read on directly.

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Our workshops & trainings

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In-house training

ML for safety-critical industrial applications

How can you comply with all core safety principles and close safety gaps?

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Training

EU AI Act and High-Risk AI Systems

Get an overview of the EU AI Act and its implications, and dive into our compliance approach and verification methodology.

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Training

Quantum Computing & Applications

Explore the possibilities of this cutting-edge technology—tailored to your business.

Events

We are looking forward to welcoming you at our events:

 

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Event / 11.9.2025

MQV Einblicke

What can quantum computers be used for? Where do they offer real advantages? Visit Fraunhofer IKS on September 11, 2025, to learn more about the potential applications of quantum computers and the development of new quantum algorithms. 

MQV Einblicke (German)
 

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Training / 9.-10.10.2025

Training EU AI Act

Do you want to make your AI systems compliant with the EU regulations? Then join our training on the EU AI Act and high-risk AI systems. For more information on the content and the program, click here:

Training EU AI Act
 

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Conference / 12.-13.11.2025

Safetronic 2025

International Conference on Holistic Safety for Road Vehicles

For the fifth time, Fraunhofer IKS will again host the international conference »Safetronic« 2025. It is planned for November 12 and 13, 2025.

Safetronic 2025
 

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All events

You can find all upcoming Fraunhofer IKS envents on our event overview.

Events

Topics

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Autonomous Driving

Future Mobility

Will the vehicles of the future drive autonomously? Only when autonomous driving is safe will this vision become reality.

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AI in medicine

Digital Health

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key technology in digital life sciences and medicine, as it can combine and analyze large amounts of data in a very short time.

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Industry 4.0

Smart Factory and AI

In order to safely utilize the benefits, connected and automated production must function reliably above all else.

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Quantum Computing

Fraunhofer IKS is researching safe software applications for quantum computing so that the calculations can be relied on.

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