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Mega – watt?
Magic and mundane reality
E aka extreme
Cranking out cargo
On the waterfront
Tracks forging links: the three-city streetcar
Schaeffler to partner with FG Series
Infinite interaction
Teamwork in the powertrain
Forward-looking Schaeffler technology masters extreme test
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Focus on energy, a handle on costs
Women that changed the world – test your knowledge.
Against the current
Computer mouse, assembly line, and ball mill? How familiar are you with breakthrough innovations?
A hotbed of innovation
Rooms of silence
Sverdrups and olfs? How familiar are you with these exotic units of measurement?
A world of technical wonders
Goodbye hydraulics!
You’ll never walk alone
Think Green
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Guard rails for a volatile
Laser shows – the future of the sky on New Year’s Eve?
Innovation boost for green energies
No energy transition without molecule transition
Clean-up fever in the ocean
Next-level city
Greener reckoning
Carbon capture, storage, and utilization – what is possible?
Perfectly connected
Our soil. A treasure trove!
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Industry 4.0
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When animals go online
AI accelerates pace on the factory floor
About a success that didn’t want to be one
Greasing without fear
Machine check with AI
Quo vadis, robotics?
Complex machine operation simplified
The science of chasing criminals
The power of data
Graphics instead of numbers
Future Life
Urbanization
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Life-saving technologies
Embracing instead of struggling
Frankenstein has resigned
We followed by I – followed by illness?
How well do you know your way around the world?
Living with (flood)water
Children’s eyes looking into the future
Progress? Sure! But in my back yard?
Rising Stars
Lift off, please!
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Life-saving technologies
Firefighters save the lives of thousands of people all over the world – while risking their own. High tech is becoming increasingly important in that regard. A look at the future of rescuing.
Embracing instead of struggling
How do we manage to integrate new technologies and the resulting key to the future into our lives? Occupational psychologist and “curiosity researcher” Dr. Carl Naughton has been exploring this question for more than a decade.
Frankenstein has resigned
The integration of technological solutions for feeding the world in the future is meeting with increasing acceptance by consumers.
We followed by I – followed by illness?
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, humans are increasingly evolving from pack animals into lone wolves – with serious consequences for human health. Loneliness is as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, says the WHO.
How well do you know your way around the world?
How is Venice protecting itself against sinking? Where is the world’s highest-elevation volcano that a Porsche climbed with help by Schaeffler technology? Test your knowledge in our “Around the world quiz.”
Living with (flood)water
Storms, flooding, heavy rainfalls: Climate change increasingly swamps coastal regions and metropolitan areas. “tomorrow” looks at possible solutions – from classic dikes to artificial reefs to sponge cities.
Children’s eyes looking into the future
Today’s children are tomorrow’s pioneers. “tomorrow” looks at how the youngest generation views the future. We asked children in various regions of the world what invention they’re still missing.
Progress? Sure! But in my back yard?
When large-scale technical projects or social change knock on the door the time has come for Nimby, an acronym that stands for “not in my backyard.” But what’s this alleged attitude of refusal all about?
Rising Stars
The startup world is constantly in motion. “tomorrow” presents up-and-coming companies whose innovations in the transportation sector are already causing a sensation or have the potential to do so.
Lift off, please!
What requirements must be met so that airborne urban mobility can be used in a few years? In a research project, the German Aerospace Center DLR has sought answers.
The Line
Some consider the linear city ‘The Line’ to be a visionary millennial project, others an example of absurdity. Here’s a current-state assessment in the spring of 2023 of how a city is supposed to grow 170 kilometers (106 miles) into the desert.
Quiz your way through the world of tomorrow!
What was the price of the most expensive NFT ever? What does "urban mining" actually mean? And how many pieces of debris do you think are hurtling through orbit? Test your knowledge in our tech quiz.
Welcome to the holofants
Wild animals belong to a circus like clowns and acrobats – but who says that they must be real? True-to-original holograms can deliver even higher entertainment value. Initial proof of that has already been provided.
Old masters in a digital guise
New technologies are sweeping through the often dusty museums and making the art world fit for the future. By merging oil and canvas with bits and bytes, old masters are conquering young markets along the way.
That makes sense
Sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste – these senses not only have biological relevance for us human beings but also connect us with our surroundings. Consequently, disorders within the sensory system have an impact. High tech can provide relief.
Hello, holo!
Canadian researchers managed to teleport the hologram of a person in real time. Together with “tomorrow,” Professor Metin Tolan, an eminent physicist and avowed Trekkie, ventures a look at the systems of the future.
SciFi Kids
How are demographic change and technological progress going to change the family system? Together with the specialists at Z_punkt foresight consultancy SOS Children’s Village Hamburg ventured a fictitious outlook for the year 2070.
“Less but better”
What does mountaineering have in common with business? “A lot,” according to Benedikt Böhm, a successful brand manager and speed mountaineer. Reduction is essential on the way to the top.
Idea + X = success
Startups have a pioneering spirit deeply rooted in their DNA. The following examples show how an innovative startup scene develops clever ideas further so that they achieve success in the marketplace.
A comeback for airships?
While airships keep appearing on the visionary horizon from time to time none of them has so far managed the leap into the real world of mobility. The H
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Clipper is a new attempt.
An idea that literally moves
Schaeffler was awarded the innovation in hardware award by the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) for its GraviKart robotic push trolly solution for the manufacturing industry.
Fireworks of the future
Fireworks are part of the New Year. However, these bombs of fine dust are not environmentally friendly. We present to you: There is a clean alternative: drone displays – high-tech pixels in the night.
Electric fine-dust catcher
Log-burning stoves radiate cozy warmth in winter, but the fine dust emitted by burning wood poses a health hazard and pollutes the environment. A new device provides relief.
AI for your fries
Working as a fry cook is not exactly one of the dream jobs in the restaurant world. But there’s a worker who’s not deterred by any of that: Flippy, a professional fry cook using AI.
Crops for insulation
Effective insulation, good indoor climate, simple production, plus carbon neutrality: new natural building materials using hemp or corn might revolutionize the construction industry.
A super laser as a lightning rod
Humans have been afraid of thunderstorms since time immemorial. Lightning rods reduce the risks they entail but have disadvantages as well. Lasers that channel lightning might solve the problem.
Riding the wave
Energy-efficient wing-in-ground vehicles as new interurban means of transportation are planned to zip across the sea on air cushions.
Flying on a train
While the Hyperloop has not made its way into the real world of transportation yet, an even more extreme idea is approaching at high speed: the Aeroslider maglev concept.
Everything under one eco-roof
Västerås, a city with a population of 120,000, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Stockholm, is going to receive a pioneering mobility center.
Amazing 24/7 assistants
Driverless service vehicles are capturing their place in mobility around the globe – while paving the technology’s way into passenger cars.
Smarter living
Time is in scarce supply – all the more reason to use it efficiently. These tricks help you make more time for yourself on the job and after hours.
Create more incentives
In the wake of the unbridled growth of cities, we’re going to see an evolution of urban mobility. tomorrow digital talked to Harry Evers, managing director of the 2021 ITS World Congress
Smarter living for seniors
Scientists are working at full stretch on the development of robots for everyday life and technical systems to keep an aging society agile for as long as possible.
Airport to go
Airports of the future for air taxis and delivery drones - this is what they could look like.
Embarking on a new age
The world is in a state of technological change and this is also true for motorsport. How can the high-tech racing categories take part in shaping the the transformation of mobility?
The mastermind
Gyro Gearloose is the innovative mastermind in Disney’s Duckburg universe. As we’re seeing today, many of his inventions were definitely those of a true visionary. But read for yourself …
Learning for a complex world
An innovation-driven world changes all of our lives. Here are five areas education and training should focus on to prepare people for the new digital knowledge society.
Electricity from an e-car
A large high-voltage battery like the one in the Audi e-tron stores up to 95 kWh of energy. Theoretically, this is enough for operating various appliances around the clock
Lucky coincidences
Pursuing a clear goal ... and discovering or inventing something totally different. This is referred to as serendipity. Legendary examples from laminated glass to Viagra.
Emergency escape into space
Will humans eventually be forced to colonize Mars? “tomorrow” talked to a NASA expert about extraterrestrial life and its hurdles. A cosmic mix of facts on the current state of research.
Neo jobs in the world of tomorrow
Artificial intelligence, quantum physics and robotics will dramatically change our world this century. Some jobs will disappear while others will emerge. This is what such neo jobs might look like.
Let’s talk about future
Digital technology is changing the future of our working world. For industrial sociologist Martin Krzywdzinski, algorithms and machines neither pose a threat to humanity nor they are ultimate saviors.
Does the climate gas CO
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also have a green side to it?
Whereas all previous plans revolved around storing the climate gas CO2 in underground layers of rock or just getting rid of it, it’s now supposed to be converted into a valuable raw material.
Homo sapiens 2.0
Das Gehirn goes online.
Hidden champions of botany
Inconspicuous plants with natural superpowers might soon help us stop famines, the destructive overexploitation of raw materials or climate change. Here are five examples.
Out of office
It doesn't always have to be a desk. These ten people have a slightly different workplace.
Pleasant prospects?!
The challenge to Africa: A young tech-savvy generation is surging ahead, aiming to change Africa’s image of a backward continent. However, large hurdles remain.
Bballi Bballi! (quick, quick)
No other industrialized country has evolved from a developing into a highly industrialized nation at the breathtaking pace that Korea has seen.
Stop!
Who in the world wound the clock? That’s a legitimate question. Although, due to technological progress, we have more time than ever before it seems to be passing faster and faster.
No brave new worlds
The city in science fiction stories rarely lifts the reader’s spirits. In most sci-fi novels, people are living in cramped conditions of dirty megacities instead of picking flowers on Mars. But why?
“Urban mobility will be electric”
How are we going to get from A to B in our cities of tomorrow? Exploring this question is part of Daimler futurist Prof. Marianne Reeb’s job. Here she provides some answers.
Masterfully morphed
Everything is subject to change – including mobility. Ships, airplanes or automobiles are sent to the scrapyard when progress has made them obsolete. “tomorrow” shows examples of successful transforma
Quantity turns into quality
What Sartre, the search for extraterrestrials and ants have to do with congested highways: Swarm intelligence can improve mobility and enhance safety on our roads.