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The top articles in January 2024
The year is off to a fast start for companies and is already bringing with it all kinds of collaborations and changes at this early stage. Developments in the field of robotics and control technology are not standing still either, as our top articles of January show.
Top 10: Market for e-exoskeletons is booming
Due to continuously increasing demand from industry, logistics and care, German Bionic is scaling up its market activities and production. Industrialization partner Mubea and German and international partners invest a further 15 million euros.
Top 9: Siemens cooperates with Sony
Together with Sony, Siemens presented a solution at CES that redefines the workflow of engineers and designers.
Top 8: Large mobile robot for flexible use
The Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL) at RWTH Aachen University has presented a large mobile robot as part of its research into line-free mobile assembly systems, or LMAS for short. This enables the flexible manipulation of heavy payloads.
Top 7: 100 million Swiss francs for sustainability research
A team from RWTH Aachen University won the Werner Siemens Foundation's ideas competition and was awarded 100 million Swiss francs for research into technologies for the sustainable use of resources.
Top 6: VDMA lists twelve fields of action for policymakers
The VDMA is calling for a "fresh cell cure for the industrial location". Germany and Europe urgently need reforms to ensure their competitiveness. In its "Economic Policy Positions 2024", it lists the twelve most important fields of action.
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Top 5: New Chief Technology Officer comes from Kuka
The Supervisory Board of Ziehl-Abegg has appointed Wolfgang Mayer as the new Chief Technology Officer. The 50-year-old will take over the role in February 2024.
Top 4: Siemens integrates Amazon Bedrock into development platform
Democratizing software development with generative AI is the goal of the partnership between Siemens and Amazon Web Services. To this end, Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock into its Mendix low-code development platform.
Top 3: Majority stake in Katek SE acquired
On January 18, Kontron AG agreed the acquisition of around 60 % of the shares in the listed company Katek SE. The buyer is the wholly-owned German subsidiary Kontron Acquisition GmbH, which is acquiring the shares from the previous Katek majority shareholder Primepulse SE.
Top 2: Automation in the high-voltage sector
High-voltage direct current transmission is increasingly being used to transmit large amounts of energy over long distances. An application example from Siemens Energy shows what such a solution has to do with model-based engineering and PC-based control.
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Top 1: Products of the year 2024
We are looking for the 'Product of the Year 2024'! We have published over 600 products over the past year and now they have been decided: We present the corresponding e-paper and the nominations in 12 categories in which you can vote for your personal favorite!
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