pursues the mission to relieve humans from dangerous, repetitive and undesirable tasks through autonomous robotics and to increase operational efficiency and workplace safety.

develops a mobile robotics solution with autonomy and AI functions that can overcome everyday obstacles such as steps, stairs, and barriers.

develops a software solution that accelerates and automates the design and deployment of AI vision models on edge devices.

uses Argument Mining and large language models to discover hidden insights in your customers' feedback and to monitor and discover tech and innovation trends.

develops an AI technology called Visual Robot Programming that enables robots to autonomously learn behaviors by watching videos.

HIGHEST is advisor, connector, and enabler. The link between science and business. From early stage to patent to start-up – and beyond. Both for researchers and students, as well as for innovation-enthusiastic companies.

AI Startup Rising is a startup and scaling platform for high- and deep-AI startups from science. The goal is to build an internationally visible, AI innovation ecosystem that understands the region’s top AI research as a source of sustainably successful high- and deep-tech startups, produces successful startups and acts as a point of attraction for talent, investors and companies.

With their ideas and unconventional approaches, research teams are often pioneers of new developments. In order to bring good ideas into application more quickly, the BMBF has launched the StartUpSecure initiative.