DFG Research Unit KI-FOR 5339 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Fraunhofer IOSB. We combine experiments, simulation, learning, optimisation and control, aiming to mature new manufacturing processes with fewer physical trials.https://mature-ai.de/en-gbhttps://mature-ai.de/news/2026-02-05-general-assembly/https://mature-ai.de/news/2026-02-05-general-assembly/Principal investigators and researchers met to coordinate work across the subprojects and to plan the remaining steps of the first funding phase.Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2025-11-17-fall-workshop/https://mature-ai.de/news/2025-11-17-fall-workshop/From 17 to 19 November 2025, doctoral researchers and principal investigators from all subprojects reviewed their progress, worked in collaboration groups on joint publications and discussed shared methodological challenges.Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2025-10-20-guest-lecture-trimpe/https://mature-ai.de/news/2025-10-20-guest-lecture-trimpe/Prof. Sebastian Trimpe (RWTH Aachen University) presented “Learning Controllers for Machines: Paradigms and Recent Results”.Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2025-09-neurips/https://mature-ai.de/news/2025-09-neurips/ROBIN, AMBER and MaNGO, three papers on learned mesh-based simulation led by subproject M2, were accepted at NeurIPS 2025. ROBIN was selected as a spotlight.Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2025-07-17-guest-lecture-huber/https://mature-ai.de/news/2025-07-17-guest-lecture-huber/Prof. Marco Huber (University of Stuttgart and Fraunhofer IPA) presented “Bayesian and Informed Machine Learning for Model-Based Control”.Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2025-07-07-guest-lecture-niggemann/https://mature-ai.de/news/2025-07-07-guest-lecture-niggemann/Prof. Oliver Niggemann (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg) presented “Physics-inspired Machine Learning”.Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2025-06-text2sparql/https://mature-ai.de/news/2025-06-text2sparql/A team from subproject F placed among the top three in several sub-challenges of the Text2SPARQL challenge at the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2025.Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2025-04-iclr-oral/https://mature-ai.de/news/2025-04-iclr-oral/HEPi, a geometry-aware reinforcement learning method for manipulating deformable objects from subprojects M2 and M4, was presented as an oral at ICLR 2025 in Singapore.Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2025-03-18-guest-lecture-bittrich/https://mature-ai.de/news/2025-03-18-guest-lecture-bittrich/Dr. Lars Bittrich (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden) presented “Using Machine Learning to Increase Production Accuracy in Tailored Fiber Placement”.Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2024-11-18-fall-workshop/https://mature-ai.de/news/2024-11-18-fall-workshop/From 18 to 20 November 2024, doctoral researchers and principal investigators met for three days to align ongoing collaborations across the subprojects.Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2024-08-indin-award/https://mature-ai.de/news/2024-08-indin-award/The paper by Saksham Kiroriwal and co-authors on joint parameter and state-space modelling of manufacturing processes with Gaussian processes received the Best Student Paper Award in the AI for Industry track of IEEE INDIN 2024.Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2023-11-14-fall-workshop/https://mature-ai.de/news/2023-11-14-fall-workshop/From 14 to 16 November 2023, doctoral researchers and principal investigators from all subprojects met for the first annual fall workshop of the Research Unit.Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2023-01-01-start/https://mature-ai.de/news/2023-01-01-start/KI-FOR 5339 started its work with six research teams from KIT and one from Fraunhofer IOSB.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2022-07-11-iosb-press-release/https://mature-ai.de/news/2022-07-11-iosb-press-release/Fraunhofer IOSB reported that the DFG funds the new Research Unit led by Prof. Jürgen Beyerer.Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://mature-ai.de/news/2022-06-29-dfg-press-release/https://mature-ai.de/news/2022-06-29-dfg-press-release/KI-FOR 5339 is one of eight research units established by the DFG within its funding initiative on artificial intelligence.Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT