04/04/2018 | What does the term artificial intelligence (AI) actually mean? And can a machine replace human skills? Anyone expecting clear answers to these questions should consider reading "Artificial Intelligence – Opportunities for Business and Society in Bavaria", a white paper published by fortiss.

03/23/2018 | In an age of globalised markets, the production industry must react quickly and efficiently to shifts in demand. Future production systems must therefore be flexible and easy to combine.

03/08/2018 | fortiss has developed a new simulator for the "Human Brain Project", enabling neuroscientists to "transplant" their brain models into virtual robots.

02/22/2018 | The Johannes Kepler University in Linz (Austria) has appointed Alois Zoitl, Head of Industrial Automation at fortiss, as Professor of Cyber-Physical Systems. The fortiss scientist will be working with other colleagues at the new interdisciplinary Open Innovation Center of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) on future factory research. This will include a study of the effects of industry 4.0 on work and society.

11/20/2017 | fortiss, the research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems and services, is receiving project funding of 2.1 million EUR from the State of Bavaria to design and test the "Bayern-Cloud". The focus of the project is a digital platform for small and mid-sized businesses in Bavaria, which lack both the necessary expertise and resources to use cloud solutions.

08/17/2017 |

08/31/2000 | Water damage can become costly in short order, as happened in the Highlight Towers in Munich when a ruptured water line in the 21st floor of the IBM Watson Center was first discovered early Monday morning. Icy temperatures over the weekend led to a frozen water pipe that eventually burst. Of all places, it was the client center with the most expensive hardware in the floor below that was impacted. The fully-booked customer event facility, equipped with sensitive technology worth several million euros, could not be utilized for a period of six weeks. One thing was obvious to everyone: this type of incident could never happen again. For this reason fortiss and IBM worked together to develop a prototype of a novel sensor with machine learning algorithms.