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.

Safe Intelligence Online Magazine: Latest English articles about Safe Intelligence

 

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Interview with Edith Holland / 12.6.2025

“Safety is a key aspect for public acceptance of automated driving”

Edith Holland is one of two new members of the Safetronic program committee and Chief Engineer Functional Safety at HORIBA MIRA. She spoke to Safe Intelligence online magazine about her motivation and the importance of safety for road vehicles now and in future.

Interview Edith Holland
 

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Automatica 2025 / 12.6.2025

Simplicity meets efficiency: working safely with your robot colleague

Seeing and being seen - this counts also in the efficient and reliable cooperation between humans and robots in industrial production. Fraunhofer IKS will be demonstrating what this is all about at Automatica in Munich at the end of June under the motto: “Simplicity is key”.

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Industrial Automation / 19.5.2025

MBO-KISS: The future of control applications in industry

Can AI revolutionize production control? This is the question the research project MBO-KISS (Methods for Evaluating and Optimizing AI-generated Control Applications Based on the Physical Simulation of Machines and Their Desired Behavior) aims to address. The project has started at the beginning of the year, with a total duration of three years. The goal is to investigate the possible usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating and securely applying control applications in industrial production.

Industrial Automation
 

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ISO 9001 certification / 7.5.2025

Seal of Approval for Research Quality

It is now "official": Fraunhofer IKS demonstrably sets the highest standards for the quality of its research work. This is confirmed by the certification according to ISO 9001, which the institute has recently passed successfully.

ISO 9001 certification

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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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SAFE INTELLIGENCE Newsletter

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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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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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Trade Fair / 24.-27.6.2025

automatica 2025

At automatica 2025, Fraunhofer IKS will showcase two solution approaches that enable safe collaboration between humans and machines: Flexible Quality Inspection and Dependable Person Detection. Visit Fraunhofer IKS at Booth 228 in Hall A5.

automatica 2025
 

Trade Fair / 24.-27.6.2025

World of Quantum 2025

Meet Fraunhofer IKS at the World of Quantum in Munich! We look forward to welcoming you at the joint booth of Bayern Innovativ (Hall A1, Booth 119).

World of Quantum 2025
 

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Event / 16.-17.7.2025

Tech Days 2025

At the Tech Days 2025, Fraunhofer IKS will present the QuaST Decision Tree. This tool reduces the manual effort involved in creating quantum-based solutions. We look forward to meeting you at the Tech Days!

Tech Days 2025
 

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All events

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

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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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