Milestone for Europe's Digital Sovereignty: DFKI and Inria Establish French-German Center on AI
Paris/Berlin, 18 June 2026 – The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the French National Institute for Research in Digital…
DFKI at IJCAI-ECAI 2026
The next edition of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) – one of the world’s leading conferences in artificial…
Team B-Human is the world champion in robot soccer
The joint team from the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) won the World Championship in robot…
Team BREMEN wins Space Resources Challenge 2025
Team BREMEN (Beneficiation of REgolith and Mobile Excavation) has won the 2025 Space Resources Challenge initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA)…
DFKI4Space: AI for space technologies
Space exploration is much more than a scientific adventure – it is a key issue for the future. At the German Research Center for Artificial…
How AI is saving the Mona Lisa
It is the most famous painting in the world... and suddenly it has disappeared. A theft, a secret sale on the darknet and a trail that seemingly…
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Research areas and their leaders:
- Agents and Simulated Reality
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Slusallek - AI for Assistive Health Technologies
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marcin Grzegorzek - AI in Medical Image and Signal Processing
Prof. Dr. Heinz Handels - Augmented Vision
Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker - Cognitive Assistants
Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger - Cognitive Social Simulation
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Timm - Cooperative and Autonomous Systems
Prof. Dr. Martin Atzmüller - Cyber-Physical Systems
Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler - Data Science and its applications
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Vollmer - Design Research eXplorations
Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost - Educational Technology Lab
Prof. Dr. Niels Pinkwart - Embedded Intelligence
Prof. Dr. Paul Lukowicz - Experience-based Learning Systems
Prof. Dr. Ralph Bergmann - Foundations of Systems AI
Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Inform. Kristian Kersting - Innovative Factory Systems
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ruskowski - Institute for Information Systems
Prof. Dr. Peter Loos - Intelligent Markets
Dr. Friedemann Kammler - Intelligent Networks
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Dieter Schotten - Interactive Machine Learning
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniel Sonntag - Marine Perception
Dr. Frederic Theodor Stahl - Multilinguality and Language Technology
Dr. Simon Ostermann - Neuro-mechanistic Modeling
Prof. Dr. Verena Wolf - Robotics Innovation Center
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Frank Kirchner - Smart Data & Knowledge Services
Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Andreas Dengel - Smart Service Engineering
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Maaß - Speech and Language Technology
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller - Systems AI for Decision Support
Prof. Dr. Carsten Binnig - Systems AI for Robot Learning
Prof. Dr. Jan Peters
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