A Korean saying states that “Getting started is half the journey.” No sooner said than done: the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft founded a Representative Office in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in 2007. The Korean market, with...[more]

Medical imaging techniques such as magnet resonance tomography (MRT) and positronemission tomography (PET) are irreplaceable in modern medicine for reliable diagnostics. The scientists at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for...[more]

Process, device, and circuit simulation tools are essential in reducing time to market and the cost of new microchip technology development, delivering faster computers, better consumer products and fueling the digital economy....[more]

Systems for condition monitoring should, ideally, detect faults before a machine comes to a standstill. Until now, this type of sensor system has only been used with very valuable drives for reasons of cost. Those days are...[more]

A webcam that can detect and assess even subtle emotions in real time? Wallpaper that cheers up the person looking at it when he’s sad? It sounds like science fiction, but thanks to the software SHORE™, developed at Fraunhofer...[more]

People are moving less and less these days. Fraunhofer researchers have developed an interactive learning system that is supposed to motivate the user to move more but in a playful way: They have combined a sensor mat with an...[more]

As part of the SonicSentinel project, researchers at Fraunhofer IDMT, together with Ilper-Electronik GmbH & Co. KG, have developed a smart sound detector for in-patient or home care. It detects risky situations reliably and...[more]