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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

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Goodbye hydraulics!
Engineering
Goodbye hydraulics!
Humanoid robots are becoming more powerful, nimble, and agile. Electric motors instead of the previous hydraulic units increasingly operate in their arms and legs. That’s a clearly discernible trend in other industrial applications as well.
Welcome aboard Robo
Engineering
Welcome aboard Robo
Flexibility – humanoid robots are going to perform more and more tasks at work, operating with advanced AI and sensitive sensors. Schaeffler experts have shared with us in what direction robotics is headed.
Laser shows – the future of the sky on New Year’s Eve?
Think Green
Laser shows – the future of the sky on New Year’s Eve?
The tradition of ushering in the new year with a dazzling fireworks display is increasingly coming under criticism. An alternative has been capturing more and more hearts and heavens: laser shows.
The Line
Future Life
The Line
Some consider the linear city ‘The Line’ to be a visionary millennial project, others an example of absurdity. Here’s a current-state assessment in the spring of 2023 of how a city is supposed to grow 170 kilometers (106 miles) into the desert.
AI in the cockpit
In Motion
AI in the cockpit
Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving into all areas of life – including aircraft cockpits. The objective is to use digital assistants to make flying smarter and safer and to replace co-pilots in the medium run.
Between weightlessness and reality
Engineering
Between weightlessness and reality
Airbus instead of orbit: During near-Earth parabolic flights, scientists can conduct far-reaching experiments in weightlessness. Here’s what’s behind it.
Youth provides motion
In Motion
Youth provides motion
Micromobility, autonomous driving, air taxis, ride sharing – mobility is changing at a rapid pace. Young people are crucial pacemakers in that regard because they have the least reservations about adopting new technologies.
The surprise bag of new materials
Think Green
The surprise bag of new materials
What if materials were no longer passive? Shape-memory alloys, shear-thickening fluids, or self-healing synthetic polymers – an increasingly growing research field is forming in laboratories and development centers.