Research institutions

The Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) conducts and promotes interdisciplinary research on the opportunities and challenges of digital transformation. In this way, it provides the foundations for shaping the digital future responsibly and with a focus on the common good in dialog with society.

• Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt)

State-of-the-art AI applications are being researched at DLR centers in Bavaria. The focus is on robotics, software systems, and communication and navigation technologies.

• Institute of Communications and Navigation
• Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics
• Institute for Software Technology
• Center for Lightweight Production Technology

The interface between software, system and service engineering is the core competence of the Bavarian State Research Institute for Software-Intensive Systems. fortiss deals with methods of AI such as machine induction and deduction. At the Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, founded jointly with IBM, fortiss develops secure AI technologies for business and society.

• Center for AI

Numerous institutes and centers of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Bavaria are working on AI-relevant topics such as autonomous driving, reliability, IT security, communication and blockchain technologies.

• Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) and Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Internet Technologies (CCIT)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits ISS with Center for Digital Signal Processing using Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) at IIS and ADA Lovelace Center for Analytics, Data, Applications
• Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) and Information Systems Department
• Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems (IKS)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Foundry, Composites and Processing Technology (IGCV)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research (ISC)
• Fraunhofer Application Center “Networked Mobility and Infrastructure” – Fraunhofer IVI

AI is of increasing importance in all research fields of the Helmholtz Association. In Bavaria, the focus is on data science and health research.

• Helmholtz Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Unit (Helmholtz AI)
• Helmholtz Munich
• Munich School for Data Science (MUDS)

KI.Fabrik Bayern is a research project funded by the Free State of Bavaria for the future local, crisis-proof and profitable production of state-of-the-art IT and mechatronic high-tech components. The thematic focus is on robotics, Industry 4.0 and the use of AI methods.

• KI.Fabrik Bayern