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Future technologies have no age limit
At the age of 79, Dietmar Harting founded the Perinet GmbH:
Everybody is talking about ‘Industry 4.0’, the digitisation of manufacturing. The founders of the Adlershof-based Perinet GmbH are taking action. They are creating the IT infrastructure necessary for digitally…
Real-world ideas
Quick tests for breast milk and sewing pattern software – meet two science talents with ideas geared towards practical application on their way to becoming business owners:
When Anna Raysyan is on stage, she is like fish in water. Convincingly and full of energy, she presents her idea that she hopes will soon help many women: a test for breast milk. The prototype is no larger than a…
The Online Revolutionary
Borsu Asisi is building a new foundation for digital communication:
For every technology, there is a time to step down. The steam engine was replaced by the combustion engine, the airship by the aeroplane, and propellers by jet fuel. For Borsu Asisi, this is the bottom line of 200…
Battery electric buses and self-driving trams
The future has already arrived at Siemens Mobility in Adlershof:
When the first self-driving tram whooshes towards us, it looks like an ordinary tram riddled with cameras, sensors, radars and laser scanners. It is the most recent feat of the development department at Siemens…
BIM creates inventions
Searching for skilled personnel, the company vinarIT is focusing on older staff:
vinarIT GmbH integrates IT systems for planning, implementing, and operating large infrastructure projects. The company needs staff who are skilled in construction technology as well as IT. A rare combination. The…
Future data storage technology: fast access, high storage density
MBI researchers image extremely small magnetic nanostructures with invisibility cloak:
In novel concepts of magnetic data storage, it is intended to send small magnetic bits back and forth in a chip structure, store them densely packed and read them out later. The magnetic stray field generates problems…
A hero’s quest
Virtual reality worlds are interactive adventure stories for the whole family:
On Sophienstrasse, in the utmost centre of Berlin, there is a gate do a different world. An infinite number of worlds, to be precise. A head-high metal frame on a plywood pedestal, a fan and a smell generator on the…
Adlershof’s accelerator programme A² supports the development of start-ups
A Bavarian start-up teamed up with a Berlin-based energy provider on a project towards the digitisation of district heating data:
The “A² Adlershof Accelerator-Programm Berlin” made it possible for a Bavarian start-up and a Berlin-based energy provider to come together to work on a project towards the digitisation of district heating data. A²…
More security for artificial intelligence
neurocat GmbH tricks self-learning systems and makes them more reliable:
The Adlershof-based neurocat GmbH increases the security of artificial intelligence applications. The company’s young team is leading efforts for developing the industry’s security standards – which it is pushing…
Digital Design
Stephanie Kannegießer develops video games in Adlershof:
Becoming a make-up artist was also an option for Stephanie Kannegießer. “I always enjoyed being creative,” she says. After finishing school in Freiburg, she moved into a shared flat and met a nice young man who…
Getting off the ground
Humboldt Innovation has a strong focus on Adlershof:
Functional fixedness can be expressed as follows: “We’ve always done it that way, why should we do it any differently now?” Ranking beside the lack of funds or skills to launch, market, or push through an invention in…
Center for IT and media ZIM 3
The acoustic camera, the Berlin brain-computer interface (a machine that can read minds) and the robodogs are only some examples made in Adlershof. About a hundred companies with over six hundred personnel, the…
Center for IT and Media Technology
Location: Albert-Einstein-Str. 14, 12489 BerlinUse: Offices Architects: CEPECED bv, Delft (Michiel Cohen und Jan Pesman), DGI Bauwerk Berlin (Bernd Tibes)Coordination: Drees & Sommer GmbH, BerlinBuildt: December 1996…