On the pulse of dig­i­tal future

SCHUNK has been rep­re­sent­ed on the uni­ver­si­ty cam­pus of Heil­bronn Uni­ver­si­ty since the sum­mer with an Inno­va­tion Hub – an exper­i­men­tal space that com­bines dif­fer­ent exper­tise and com­pe­ten­cies. The Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (AI) Inno­va­tion Park, also locat­ed there, brings togeth­er star­tups, research play­ers, pro­fes­sion­als and tal­ent.

AI-based prod­ucts and ser­vices from Baden-Würt­tem­berg will be cre­at­ed in Heil­bronn in the future. In 2021, the city pre­vailed in the Baden-Würt­tem­berg state government’s loca­tion com­pe­ti­tion, so the new Inno­va­tion Park for Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (AI) has been locat­ed on the uni­ver­si­ty cam­pus since the sum­mer of 2022. SCHUNK is also rep­re­sent­ed with an office to ensure that it always has its fin­ger on the pulse of new devel­op­ments as a first mover. Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence is a tech­nol­o­gy that will grad­u­al­ly cov­er all SCHUNK prod­ucts and ser­vices in the future.

“As a found­ing mem­ber of the AI Park in Heil­bronn, we enjoy excel­lent con­di­tions for pick­ing up inno­v­a­tive ideas with stu­dents and part­ners on site in order to devel­op new con­cepts relat­ed to AI and the dig­i­tal port­fo­lio.”

Dr. Mar­tin May,
Direc­tor Inno­va­tion Cen­ter SCHUNK

More­over, the fact that SCHUNK brings many years of prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence from the field of automa­tion and pro­duc­tion as a tech­nol­o­gy leader, proves to be ide­al. In com­bi­na­tion with the sci­en­tif­ic exper­tise of the uni­ver­si­ty and the fresh ideas of young star­tups, this cre­ates an extreme­ly fruit­ful dia­log.

“We want to use SCHUNK’s pres­ence in the Inno­va­tion and AI Park to devel­op new ideas and con­cepts around dig­i­tal prod­ucts, ser­vices and AI with stu­dents and part­ners,“ says Mar­tin May, Direc­tor Tech­nol­o­gy & Inno­va­tion Man­age­ment at SCHUNK.

Room for exchang­ing ideas with stu­dents

Stu­dents enrolled there in the famous Ecole 42 pro­gram­ming school are among those who also ben­e­fit from this exchange, as they can gain use­ful prac­ti­cal knowl­edge in real-life appli­ca­tions. The con­di­tions are excel­lent – many well-known, region­al­ly locat­ed com­pa­nies are prepar­ing for the future on the cam­pus. A live­ly exchange of knowl­edge takes place in reg­u­lar sem­i­nars and work­shops. The atmos­phere at the Inno­va­tion Park makes it pos­si­ble to work in an agile and inno­v­a­tive way. SCHUNK is in the thick of it and is using this oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­tin­u­ous­ly expand its part­ner net­work as well as its own exper­tise in the field of AI. These efforts result in prod­ucts and ser­vices of the next gen­er­a­tion.

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