Factory of the Future (FOF)

Factory of the Future is an inter-institutional project of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Its goal is the digital transformation of robot-supported production processes in the context of Industry 4.0.

Project details

In the Factory of the Future (FoF) project, the initiative of the DLR is pursuing a comprehensive strategy by investigating future technologies and approaches from research on artificial intelligence and cooperative robots. Its goal is the digital transformation of robot-supported production processes in the context of Industry 4.0. This makes the Factory of the Future a pioneer: The application of state-of-the-art research methods from aerospace enables production processes to be simplified and optimised. Our various robotic systems and applications make it possible to meet the requirements of the future with clear concepts and solution approaches:

Customised mass production, the production of small batch sizes, short planning and learning times, intuitive programming and safe human-robot-collaboration are just a few of the areas on which we are working across ten DLR institutes.

Dr.-Ing. Roman Weitschat German Aerospace Center Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, Cognitive Robotics Oberpfaffenhofen-Weßling Tel.: +49 8153 28-1096 Fax: +49 8153 28-1134

Korbinian Nottensteiner German Aerospace Center Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, Cognitive Robotics Oberpfaffenhofen-Weßling Tel.: +49 8153 28-4122 Fax: +49 8153 28-1134

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alin Olimpiu Albu-Schäffer Director of the Institute German Aerospace Center Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics Oberpfaffenhofen-Weßling Tel.: +49 8153 28-3689 Fax: +49 8153 28-1847