Ever since IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer defeated the reigning champion Garri Kasparov in 1997 humans are in fear of being outsmarted, overpowered, and put out of work by intelligent machines. These breakthroughs in machine learning mingled with the doomsday infatuation of the closing millennium. Even though the media still profusely tap into this dystopian storyline a lot has changed in the last 20 years. As industrial use cases of AI-algorithms and machine learning are on the increase we now have a much more specific picture of future human-machine collaboration. Intelligent machinery will change the way we operate machines, produce goods, and solve tasks.

Tractronic Sensformer®: Born connected – The world’s first intelligent traction transformer. One of the most challenging aspects of digitization is the implementation of artificial intelligence algorithms in mechanical and electrical components. With the increasing complexity of electromechanical systems, several components cannot effectively fulfill the additional features with their current condition monitoring. They definitively need more. […]

Since I was a kid, I loved science fiction cartoons. Back in the ‘80s the options were quite limited and the ones that dared to tread into the sci-fi realm would stand out. One of them was “Ulysses 31”, a French-Japanese animated television series (1981) that updates the Greek mythology of Odysseus (known as “Ulysses” in Latin) to the 31st century.