Welcome to the hotel of the future where the concierge wears sensors and cameras instead of a suit. Tourism is currently seeing a technological transformation. “tomorrow” names examples around the globe.

Humanoid robotics needs more than AI and the factory of the future needs more than data models. Schaeffler shows how both come together – in actuators that enable motion and in the Industrial Metaverse that reimagines manufacturing.

From intelligent humanoid machines in industrial settings to four-legged fire-fighting rescuers to robo dogs as service dogs for the blind. The future is closer than we may think. Join our quiz.

The Motion Technology Company Schaeffler is continuing to expand its international partner network for humanoid robotics and is collaborating with a Chinese company for the first time.

From a mechanical guide dog to a self-learning exoskeleton and magnetically controlled bacteria, researchers at ETH Zurich are busy devising robots for medical applications.

Schaeffler continues to strengthen its position as a preferred technology partner for humanoid robotics by establishing a strategic technology partnership with British technology company Humanoid.

Schaeffler and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have further consolidated their existing partnership. A new 900 sqm. laboratory will be dedicated primarily to the advancement of technologies for robotics and AI.

Companies around the world are testing and planning the deployment of humanoid robots at full stretch. At CES 2026, Schaeffler is showcasing forward-thinking technologies for exactly those kinds of robots.

Schaeffler is expanding its involvement in the field of humanoid robots and entering into a trailblazing technology partnership with the high-tech company Neura Robotics. The mission: the development of powerful, compact actuators.

I spy with my little eye – what sounds like a game for children marks a technological breakthrough: For the first time, two robots from different space agencies communicated with each other on the ISS across all IT hurdles.

Flexibility – humanoid robots are going to perform more and more tasks at work, operating with advanced AI and sensitive sensors. Schaeffler experts have shared with us in what direction robotics is headed.

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.

Humanoid robots are becoming more powerful, nimble, and agile. Electric motors instead of the previous hydraulic units increasingly operate in their arms and legs. That’s a clearly discernible trend in other industrial applications as well.

Best-practice examples of teamwork at somewhat unusual workplaces.

How will the interaction between humans and robots develop? Acclaimed automation expert Dominik Bösl looked at the future for tomorrow. You can read his report on these pages.

With every additional level of automation, robots assume more of a key role in industrial settings. Like other industries, automotive manufacturers rely on automatic helpers in the transformation process more than ever before.

The number of satellites in space is rising rapidly. But what if these high-tech objects go to pot? Then they orbit the Earth at high speed as dangerous space debris. To make the orbit resilient for the future, a clean-up mission is needed.

Fully automatic and highly efficient: That’s how warehouses have become critical hubs of resilient supply chains.

Leibniz Prize winner Professor Wolfram Burgard is one of the leading researchers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. In an interview, he looks at robots and AI as potential teammates in tomorrow’s workplace.

The evolution of robots is rapidly picking up momentum. The worker-bees among them are becoming more powerful and ruggedized, liberating their human colleagues from hard and hazardous work. A status report from the world of machines.

Robots multiplying themselves – that sounds like science fiction but is a reality. These automatic machines, however, are really tiny.

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.

Researchers from Fraunhofer have now presented an autonomous weeding robot requiring neither sprays nor costly high-tech sensors including complex algorithms.

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.

How do you fish something out of the ocean that you can’t see? By using clever “catching methods” for microplastics and nanoparticles.

8,000 times faster than 5G: From 2030 on, the 6G network is supposed to push open the gates to a new communications universe.

After nearly twenty years of spectacular robot development and the third change in ownership, Boston Dynamics is now aiming to break even with an initial product.

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.

Automaton, machine, robot, humanoid, android, cobot – no matter what names the artificial entertainers have been given, the foundations of this success story were laid as far back as 3,000 years ago.

Limits exist for the purpose of being pushed and shifted. Just like technological innovations have done time and time again with the limits of what’s feasible. Janis McDavid is happy that this is so.

Digital transformation in the healthcare sector is in full swing and receiving a boost due to the corona pandemic. Here are a few examples.

Cobots, the smaller siblings of gross-motor industrial robots, are making a name for themselves. The specialists at Schaeffler have found a way to make them perform faster and with greater precision.

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.

More than a hundred years ago, the moving assembly line changed the manufacturing process: an awesome success story – and one that could soon be ending.

The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded for the fundamentals of building complex nanomachines. Following the early eighties, this new field of research has since seen rapid development.

Winning games, reading files, diagnosing diseases: will robots soon be smarter than people? And, if so, what will become of us?