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A bold start – despite COVID-19
What drives prospective business founders – two teams from the Adlershof Founder’s Lab report:
Making the step to start a company requires courage, even when things are normal. What drives prospective founders to take the step during the epidemic year 2020? – two teams from the Adlershof Founder’s Lab…
University of Kassel and HZB establish Joint Lab for the use of artificial intelligence
New experimental methods will be developed and the analysis of data from experiments performed at BESSY II will be significantly improved:
Every year, nearly 3000 user groups from around the world visit the electron storage ring BESSY II to study an immense variety of materials using the brilliant X-ray light the ring generates. “In the research of…
IT and Electromobility
Lars Zemke solves IT problems and is an advocate for light electric vehicles:
It took a while until he was able to say: ‘I’m slowly becoming an Adlershoferian,’ he says. Just when he got used to saying it, the pandemic drove him out of his office at ‘Am Studio’ located in the former Solon…
Regional and digital
Adlershof-based IT company X-Visual is working with the HTW to create a concept for industrial mixed-reality applications:
Digitisation, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence are revolutionising how industrial facilities are planned, built, and operated. The Adlershof-based software developer X-Visual Technologies has been a…
Crisis? What Crisis?
Despite the bleak outlook of economic research institutes, there are companies that continue their path to growth – two examples from Adlershof:
These are difficult times for many companies. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, economic research institutes are foreseeing a wave of bankruptcies. Despite this bleak outlook, however, there are still many stories with a…
Research group of the FU Berlin and the HZB develop new method to shorten computing times
Mathematical tool helps calculate properties of quantum materials more quickly:
Many quantum materials have been nearly impossible to simulate mathematically because the computing time required is too long. Now a joint research group at Freie Universität Berlin and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin…
New Collaborative Research Center FONDA seeks new methods for analyzing large data sets
The aim of the joint university research project is an easier and reusable data analysis for the natural sciences:
The recently established Collaborative Research Center “FONDA – Foundations of Workflows for Large Scale Scientific Data Analysis” researches new methods for analyzing large data sets. Such data emerges from…
Hey, foreign language!
How do machine translations fare in providing accurate translations?:
Using smartphone-based translation apps or Google Translate on their computers are invaluable tools to many. The software is continuously improving. But how does it work? What are its limitations? And will our…
How to make working remotely work
Since the coronavirus pandemic, many more companies are starting to appreciate the value of working digitally – Pokeshot sets off to show them how to make it work:
Normally, they would have met in Am Studio 2 in Adlershof, where Pokeshot has its headquarters. However, now, during the pandemic, it is better to keep a safe distance. Instead of shaking hands, waving hands pop up on…
Turning wonder into meteorological intelligence
Adlershof start-up MeteoIQ prepares weather forecasts as a basis for business decisions:
At MeteoIQ, the name says it all: the three founders have specialised on the smart use and useful preparation of weather data for customers from the insurance, construction, and energy sector. The Adlershof-based…
The cyber sentry
Johannes Klick consults companies on IT security issues:
A massive airstrike, a lightning attack in a computer game, or radiation that wreaks havoc in a computer’s processor? ‘Wikipedia’ provides several possible explanations as to what an ‘Alpha Strike’ may be. Johannes…
The future makers
Adlershof brings forth high-tech founders, not copycats:
Starting a business in Adlershof is almost certainly a ticket to success. The strategies pursued by the founders, however, show that very different paths can lead them there. What unites them is that Adlershof turns…
Dynamism meets experience
Innovative start-ups and established companies successfully collaborate in the A² Adlershof programme:
Finding a parking spot with an app, documenting a house’s mains connections using a smartphone, testing the functionality of your home’s heating with a camera, or checking whether the waste at recycling locations…
Bitten by the invention bug
Eleven inventions: Jonas Wanke from Adlershof discovered his passion for programming at the ‘Jugend forscht’ science competition:
He builds soap usage reminder facilities and makes dogs glow in the dark: Jonas Wanke is only 19 years old and an avid inventor. An Adlershof native, he has competed in Germany’s most famous junior science…
This house is a robot
Auricon Technische Dienste GmbH specialises in building automation:
The mission statement of Auricon Technische Dienste GmbH could be broken down as follows: if nobody receives a call from a guest staying at a hotel, the staff did a good job. Auricon specialises in building…
Julius Upmeier zu Belzen is winner of the Falling Walls Lab Adlershof 2019
With around 30 applications, Adlershof was again the most successful lab in Germany:
Great minds, 3 minutes, 1 day – Falling Walls Labs take place globally throughout the year. The Lab is a platform for excellent academics, entrepreneurs and professionals from all disciplines who get the opportunity…
Designing the future
Sven Bauer builds ‘experience models’ in Adlershof:
Two comfortable car seats, a steering wheel, a front window, brakes and an accelerator. Wheels are all that’s missing. This particular vehicle, however, won’t need them. Its route is purely virtual. What it does need…
Forest Rangers and Woodpile Scanners: About smart forestry
Adlershof start-up VINS 3D develops digital scanners for measurement and inventory:
“Long-term forestry is unthinkable if the timber supply from our forests is not calculated with sustainability in mind.” In his treatise on the taxation of the forests, the forest scientist Georg Ludwig Hartig coined…
Adlershof Intelligence
AiBrain aims to develop a completely autonomous artificial brain:
The small business AIBrain has big plans: to develop an artificial intelligence that thinks, learns, remembers and solves problems like a human. The artificial brain is already working in the company’s first…
An interview with Linda Onnasch
The Berlin psychologist is researching how humanlike machines ought to be:
She was never interested in becoming a therapist. Instead, psychologist Linda Onnasch is investigating how humanlike a machine ought to be and who should have the final say in the cooperation between man and machine.…