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AI in Cardiology / 20.4.2026

Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Through Intelligent ECG Analysis

Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide. Early diagnosis is crucial for taking preventive action. However, risk factors often remain hidden until the first symptoms appear. Together with the University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Fraunhofer IKS is working on the »AI Cardiology« project to develop a solution that closes the gap between patients´ daily lives and clinical care to strengthen cardiovascular prevention.

AI in Cardiology

Interview with Moritz Schneider / 15.4.2026

"Safety as a commitment to people”

nce this year, Moritz Schneider has been a member of the program committee for Safetronic, the international conference on the holistic safety of road vehicles. In this interview, the functional safety expert at the BMW Group discusses his motivation and explains why safety is more than just a technical objective.

Interview with Moritz Schneider

Quantum Computers / 13.4.2026

The Quantum Zoo: Playing Your Way Into Quantum Computing

Quantum computing often sounds like science fiction: particles in two places at once, strange correlations across space, and computers that could one day crack problems beyond any classical supercomputer. The Quantum Zoo project at Fraunhofer IKS provides insight: hands-on quantum computing

The Quantum Zoo

Cobots / 31.3.2026

PROTECT: Reliable AI-powered person detection for safe and efficient human-robot collaboration

Flexible, efficient, and above all reliable and safe: That’s what deployable person recognition in industrial production should look like. In the PROTECT project, Fraunhofer IKS and Fraunhofer IGCV have taken a big leap toward delivering these capabilities.

PROTECT

The future of production / 6.3.2026

On the way to Industry 5.0?

Industrial production is undergoing profound change. With rapidly advancing technologies and a changing social environment, industrial automation needs to be rethought in order to respond more flexibly to new requirements and challenges—keyword: adaptive production.

The future of production

Software-Defined Defense / 11.2.2026

Speeding Up Defense: The Software-Defined Revolution

In times rife with geopolitical tensions, it is essential for the defense industry to quickly address pressing customer needs. Read on to find out how software-defined defense can deliver innovation through shorter cycles that still keep up with safety standards.

Software-Defined Defense

Safe Intelligence Day 2026 / 7.1.2026

How AI and Safety Balance Each Other in Automation

On February 5, 2026, the next Safe Intelligence Day will take place at Fraunhofer IKS. The focus of the showcases, presentations, and discussions will be generative AI in automation. Three aspects play an essential role: generative AI in the safety engineering process, as a basis for troubleshooting assistance in production, and applied to code generation in manufacturing.

Safe Intelligence Day 2026

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Articles on Autonomous Driving

Interview with Moritz Schneider / 15.4.2026

"Safety as a commitment to people”

nce this year, Moritz Schneider has been a member of the program committee for Safetronic, the international conference on the holistic safety of road vehicles. In this interview, the functional safety expert at the BMW Group discusses his motivation and explains why safety is more than just a technical objective.

Interview with Moritz Schneider

Interview with Mario Trapp / 21.11.2025

„We wanted to open up a kind of window into our research engine room“

Fraunhofer IKS has introduced its Playground. This platform is especially designed for companies to explore the institute's offerings. In an interview, Institute Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp discusses the concept behind the Fraunhofer IKS Playground.

Interview with Mario Trapp

Safetronic 2025 / 29.9.2025

Safety remains a challenge

Holistic safety for road vehicles is the focus of the annual Safetronic conference (November 12–13, 2025, in Leinfelden-Echterdingen). In a video discussion, Fraunhofer IKS Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp and Program comittee member Hans-Leo Ross, CARIAD, talk about the future of mobility.

Safetronic 2025

Safetronic 2025: Preview / 14.10.2025

What is an acceptable risk? A proposal

The safety of a product, i.e., not causing harm, is a crucial property for its persistent success on the market and avoidance of legal risks for the manufacturer. However, since perfect safety is typically not achievable, the question what defines acceptable safety and what defines acceptable risks, i.e., risk acceptance criteria (RAC), arises.

Safetronic 2025: Preview

Interview with Delphine Kervarec-Vicq / 30.9.2025

“Standards are key to understand each other in an extended eco system”

Delphine Kervarec-Vicq, Product Safety Director at Valeo, is a new member of the program committee for Safetronic, the international conference on holistic safety for road vehicles. In an interview with Safe Intelligence online magazine, she talks about her motivation for joining the committee and explains the importance of safety for automated driving.

Safety engineering

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Articles on Industry 4.0

The future of production / 6.3.2026

On the way to Industry 5.0?

Industrial production is undergoing profound change. With rapidly advancing technologies and a changing social environment, industrial automation needs to be rethought in order to respond more flexibly to new requirements and challenges—keyword: adaptive production.

The future of production

Cobots / 31.3.2026

PROTECT: Reliable AI-powered person detection for safe and efficient human-robot collaboration

Flexible, efficient, and above all reliable and safe: That’s what deployable person recognition in industrial production should look like. In the PROTECT project, Fraunhofer IKS and Fraunhofer IGCV have taken a big leap toward delivering these capabilities.

PROTECT

Safe Intelligence Day 2026 / 7.1.2026

How AI and Safety Balance Each Other in Automation

On February 5, 2026, the next Safe Intelligence Day will take place at Fraunhofer IKS. The focus of the showcases, presentations, and discussions will be generative AI in automation. Three aspects play an essential role: generative AI in the safety engineering process, as a basis for troubleshooting assistance in production, and applied to code generation in manufacturing.

Safe Intelligence Day 2026

Quantum Computing / 3.12.2025

Are quantum solutions realistic in production?

Quantum machine learning (QML) offers a promising pathway for early adoption in industrial settings. For QML solutions to be effectively implemented in production, dedicated access to quantum hardware is essential. The quantum hardware ecosystem is rapidly evolving, with most of the infrastructure hosted by cloud providers. However, this reliance on cloud services presents challenges, including latency, security concerns, and high costs which can impede real-time applications. Is there a way to circumvent these limitations?

Quantum solutions

Interview with Mario Trapp / 21.11.2025

„We wanted to open up a kind of window into our research engine room“

Fraunhofer IKS has introduced its Playground. This platform is especially designed for companies to explore the institute's offerings. In an interview, Institute Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp discusses the concept behind the Fraunhofer IKS Playground.

Interview with Mario Trapp

Industry 4.0 / 7.8.2025

Toolbox offers more flexibility in production

The ability of a production system to adapt independently to new circumstances promises efficiency gains and thus cost advantages. This also applies to late change orders in the production process - a case for the new tool set from Fraunhofer IKS for flexible and resilient production.

Toolbox

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Articles on AI in medicine

AI in Cardiology / 20.4.2026

Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Through Intelligent ECG Analysis

Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of death worldwide. Early diagnosis is crucial for taking preventive action. However, risk factors often remain hidden until the first symptoms appear. Together with the University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Fraunhofer IKS is working on the »AI Cardiology« project to develop a solution that closes the gap between patients´ daily lives and clinical care to strengthen cardiovascular prevention.

AI in Cardiology

Portrait Johannes Karg / 7.10.2025

»It´s important that AI decisions are transparent«

Artificial Intelligence fascinated the medicine graduate during his studies. This fascination remained even after he graduated: today, Dr. Johannes Karg conducts research at the Fraunhofer IKS on a wide range of applications for AI in medicine.

Portrait Johannes Karg

Interview with Mario Trapp / 21.11.2025

„We wanted to open up a kind of window into our research engine room“

Fraunhofer IKS has introduced its Playground. This platform is especially designed for companies to explore the institute's offerings. In an interview, Institute Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp discusses the concept behind the Fraunhofer IKS Playground.

Interview with Mario Trapp

AI in medicine / 7.10.2025

Using AI for facial fracture detection

Consultation projects play a crucial role in fulfilling the Fraunhofer mission of translating cutting-edge research into industry applications. Recently, Fraunhofer IKS cooperated with the South Korean company ZIOVISION on AI-based facial fracture segmentation from medical images. The successful outcome of the project demonstrates the potential benefits such collaborations offer to both partners.

AI in medicine

Artificial Intelligence / 21.8.2025

Can Generative AI Revolutionize Modern Healthcare?

Artificial intelligence, especially large language models (LLMs), are seen by many as a key resource for an overburdened healthcare system. AI-supported automation in particular could quickly relieve the burden of knowledge management tasks. Before this can happen, security and safety challenges as well as legal requirements must be taken into account. Fraunhofer IKS research is dedicated to both of these aspects.

Generative AI

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Articles on cognitive systems

Software-Defined Defense / 11.2.2026

Speeding Up Defense: The Software-Defined Revolution

In times rife with geopolitical tensions, it is essential for the defense industry to quickly address pressing customer needs. Read on to find out how software-defined defense can deliver innovation through shorter cycles that still keep up with safety standards.

Software-Defined Defense

Interview with Mario Trapp / 21.11.2025

„We wanted to open up a kind of window into our research engine room“

Fraunhofer IKS has introduced its Playground. This platform is especially designed for companies to explore the institute's offerings. In an interview, Institute Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp discusses the concept behind the Fraunhofer IKS Playground.

Interview with Mario Trapp

Rail / 4.9.2025

Safe.trAIn: AI as train conductor on regional railways

Autonomous driving is not only set to conquer the roads, but also offers enormous potential for driverless trains in rail transport. Proof of this is the safe.trAIn project, in which Fraunhofer IKS has taken on the central task of methodically assuring the AI functions.

Safe.trAIn

Machine Learning / 28.8.2025

Metrics as an indicator of AI safety: is that enough?

The performance of machine learning (ML) models is typically assessed using metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, etc. But how trustworthy are these single point estimates really? Such metrics reflect reality only partially and can provide us with a false sense of safety. Especially in safety-critical areas, this can be dangerous. Fraunhofer IKS develops a formal framework for the quantification of uncertainty which aims to make the residual risk “more computable”.

Machine Learning

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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The future of production / 6.3.2026

On the way to Industry 5.0?

Industrial production is undergoing profound change. With rapidly advancing technologies and a changing social environment, industrial automation needs to be rethought in order to respond more flexibly to new requirements and challenges—keyword: adaptive production.

The future of production

Software-Defined Defense / 11.2.2026

Speeding Up Defense: The Software-Defined Revolution

In times rife with geopolitical tensions, it is essential for the defense industry to quickly address pressing customer needs. Read on to find out how software-defined defense can deliver innovation through shorter cycles that still keep up with safety standards.

Software-Defined Defense

Interview with Mario Trapp / 21.11.2025

„We wanted to open up a kind of window into our research engine room“

Fraunhofer IKS has introduced its Playground. This platform is especially designed for companies to explore the institute's offerings. In an interview, Institute Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp discusses the concept behind the Fraunhofer IKS Playground.

Interview with Mario Trapp

Artificial Intelligence / 13.11.2025

Quantum computing and AI

There is great hope: even if quantum computers initially “merely” improve the simulations of quantum mechanical processes, they could, among other things, help to train AI systems more efficiently in the future. The first small quantum computers are already commercially available. But what potential do they actually have today?

Quantum computing and AI

Safety Engineering / 6.11.2025

Generative AI as a gap filler

Artificial intelligence opens up new economic opportunities for companies. However, the integration of AI raises significant safety concerns in safety-critical systems. This results in a gap between economic potential and safety, the economic safety gap. But generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI, GenAI) can help close it.

Safety Engineering

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Articles on quantum computing

Quantum Computers / 13.4.2026

The Quantum Zoo: Playing Your Way Into Quantum Computing

Quantum computing often sounds like science fiction: particles in two places at once, strange correlations across space, and computers that could one day crack problems beyond any classical supercomputer. The Quantum Zoo project at Fraunhofer IKS provides insight: hands-on quantum computing

The Quantum Zoo

Hybrid Quantum Algorithms / 17.12.2025

Do Classical Optimization Algorithms Perform Better with “Quantum Maps”?

A master's thesis created at Fraunhofer IKS and the Technical University of Munich has been honored with the Quantum Future Award from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.

Hybrid Quantum Algorithms

Quantum Computing / 3.12.2025

Are quantum solutions realistic in production?

Quantum machine learning (QML) offers a promising pathway for early adoption in industrial settings. For QML solutions to be effectively implemented in production, dedicated access to quantum hardware is essential. The quantum hardware ecosystem is rapidly evolving, with most of the infrastructure hosted by cloud providers. However, this reliance on cloud services presents challenges, including latency, security concerns, and high costs which can impede real-time applications. Is there a way to circumvent these limitations?

Quantum solutions

Artificial Intelligence / 13.11.2025

Quantum computing and AI

There is great hope: even if quantum computers initially “merely” improve the simulations of quantum mechanical processes, they could, among other things, help to train AI systems more efficiently in the future. The first small quantum computers are already commercially available. But what potential do they actually have today?

Quantum computing and AI

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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Articles on safety engineering

Interview with Moritz Schneider / 15.4.2026

"Safety as a commitment to people”

nce this year, Moritz Schneider has been a member of the program committee for Safetronic, the international conference on the holistic safety of road vehicles. In this interview, the functional safety expert at the BMW Group discusses his motivation and explains why safety is more than just a technical objective.

Interview with Moritz Schneider

Software-Defined Defense / 11.2.2026

Speeding Up Defense: The Software-Defined Revolution

In times rife with geopolitical tensions, it is essential for the defense industry to quickly address pressing customer needs. Read on to find out how software-defined defense can deliver innovation through shorter cycles that still keep up with safety standards.

Software-Defined Defense

Interview with Mario Trapp / 21.11.2025

„We wanted to open up a kind of window into our research engine room“

Fraunhofer IKS has introduced its Playground. This platform is especially designed for companies to explore the institute's offerings. In an interview, Institute Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp discusses the concept behind the Fraunhofer IKS Playground.

Interview with Mario Trapp

Safety Engineering / 6.11.2025

Generative AI as a gap filler

Artificial intelligence opens up new economic opportunities for companies. However, the integration of AI raises significant safety concerns in safety-critical systems. This results in a gap between economic potential and safety, the economic safety gap. But generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI, GenAI) can help close it.

Safety Engineering

Safetronic 2025 / 29.9.2025

Safety remains a challenge

Holistic safety for road vehicles is the focus of the annual Safetronic conference (November 12–13, 2025, in Leinfelden-Echterdingen). In a video discussion, Fraunhofer IKS Director Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp and Program comittee member Hans-Leo Ross, CARIAD, talk about the future of mobility.

Safetronic 2025

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Articles on smart farming

Smart Farming

Digital transformation takes the field

As farmers step up their use of information and communication technology, agriculture is not only becoming more efficient, but also more sustainable and resilient. A Fraunhofer IKS webinar explored some different solutions and strategies in the field of smart farming.

Smart Farming

Future mobility

Autonomous locomotion in business use

When we think about autonomous vehicles, we usually think of self-driving cars where people are mere passengers. In the business domain, however, their potential lies in logistics. New technologies could fundamentally change the transportation of goods, making it safer and more efficient. An overview of the current status of a variety of autonomous vehicles in industry.

Future mobility

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