Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Intelligent robotic technologies and systems that can support humans in a variety of tasks. Procedures that use artificial intelligence (AI) methods to bring used products into a sustainable cycle. Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of…

Carbon sinks on the land surface can mitigate the greenhouse effect. Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and other research institutions have brought together various data sources and determined that the majority of…

Professor Holger Hanselka, President of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2013, was today unanimously elected the new President of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft by the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Dresden. As its 11th…

Dark matter is one of the great enigmas of physics. In order to explore its nature, the French research organization CNRS together with Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and…

Therapy of the dangerous infectious disease of tuberculosis faces the challenge of pathogens frequently being resistant to several common antibiotics. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now developed nanoparticles…

Producing hydrogen, fuels and even drinking water efficiently on roof surfaces or in solar parks - researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and their Canadian partners want to make this possible with inexpensive…

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with its Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) has been commissioned to operate the Office for Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) for the next five…

Experimental setup: By superimposing the electric nearfield of a relativistic electron bunch on laser pulses in an electro-optical crystal, tomograms of the phase space density are measured. (Image: Stefan Funkner, KIT)Storage rings as…

How can digital innovations be steered in socially meaningful ways? Which technologies help to quickly decarbonize the economy? And how can critical infrastructures be made more resilient in the future? Key future issues have long…

Cars are far too low on flexibility in their current form, revolutionary concepts for passenger and freight traffic provide a solutionAutonomous electric vehicleCompletely new vehicle concepts are needed to solve the pressing problems of…