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The project “LOMOBI – Learning assistance system for orientation and mobility of visually impaired persons in everyday life” was launched this year at the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS). Led by medical engineer Sina Martin, researchers at FAU will develop a system wit...

Gender and power structures in academia Join the event on September 14, and learn more about the interrelationship between gender and power structures at universities and to discuss challenges and successful strategies. As always in our WomenInScience@TF serie there will be plenty of time for di...

Forest fires are no longer only restricted to southern European regions, they are now increasingly also a problem in Germany. The interdisciplinary project Evolonic from FAU and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB) is focusing on developing effective solutions...

The Faculty of Engineering at FAU has received a distinguished professorship from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts: As part of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, Prof. Dr. Bastian Etzold, Chair of Power-to-X Technologies, has been awarded five million euros in funding. “Bastian Etzo...

“Anyone who might have dared to suggest controlling a single photon, let alone an electron, 20 years ago would have been considered to have lost touch with reality,” states quantum engineer Professor Roland Nagy. Today, researchers like him and his team at FAU are even able to use the effects of suc...

Visiting Professor from Johns Hopkins University Prof. Alejandro Martin-Gomez is an assistant research professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA). He focuses on Augmented R...

There’s nothing like personal exchange, especially in high complex fields like laser technology or photonics applications. After a COVID break of almost four years, eight doctoral candidates from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Princeton University again met for a week of...

A robot performing surgery on humans. What sounds like science fiction could provide support to physicians in the operating room in future. In the “ForNeRo – Seamless and Ergonomic Integration of Robotics into the Clinical Workflow” research network, researchers from FAU and five other research inst...

Headaches, high blood pressure or digestive problems can be signs of many different medical conditions. Often, treatment focuses on the affected organs or organ systems and is aimed at alleviating symptoms. This is something experts at FAU, including computer scientist Prof. Dr. David B. Blumenthal,...