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To deploy humanoid robots in industrial applications, they must meet application-relevant criteria. Fraunhofer IPA has developed a benchmark for this purpose. This allows manufacturers and end users to have humanoid robots analyzied by an independent third party for energy efficiency, cleanroom compatibility, data security, and more.

Based on successful battery research, Fraunhofer IPA and Sugino are now expanding their partnership. Since January 2026, the collaboration has also included joint research on cosmetics production, formulation development, and dispersion technology. With this move, the partners are strategically expanding their cooperation into a new, highly innovative market.

Together with the management consultancy P3, Fraunhofer IPA has investigated how component manufacturers could benefit from producing hardware components for humanoid robots. The results are available free of charge in the white paper “The Humanoid Hardware Value Chain: Can the European Manufacturing Industry Capitalize on the Humanoid Momentum?”

Compile an emissions balance sheet, evaluate climate-protection measures and implement the most efficient of these first: Researchers from three Fraunhofer institutes have developed a method with which companies from all sectors are able, based on scenarios, to evaluate their climate-protection measures in accordance with ecological and economic criteria.

At this year’s Automatica trade fair, the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA will be showcasing numerous solutions that – thanks in part to artificial intelligence (AI) – greatly simplify and accelerate the planning, programming, and training of robots. On display from June 24 to 27, 2025, in Hall A4, Booth 314.