ZuKIPro: Future Center for Human-Centered AI in Production Work

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The Future Center serves to empower companies and employees to shape digital change, especially with regard to AI, and to support small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in Hesse in the participatory introduction of digital technologies and AI-based systems and to design them together with employees in a human-friendly way.

To this end, a laboratory has been set up at the Department of Human-Machine Systems Engineering in which assistance systems, e.g. in the field of human-robot collaboration and augmented reality, are presented as demonstrators and best-practice examples as part of consulting and teaching-learning concepts. The analysis, modeling and simulation of specific work situations should make solutions practically feasible and facilitate regional transfer to companies. Advising companies, testing the concepts and networking and consolidation are therefore further key tasks.

Cooperation partners

RWTH Aachen University
Beratungsstelle für Technologiefolgen und Qualifizierung im Bildungswerk ver.di Hessen e. V., Kassel
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Saarbrücken
Department of Communication Technology at the University of Kassel
Department of Business Informatics at the University of Kassel
IHK Kassel-Marburg, Kassel
Institut für Technologie und Arbeit e. V., Kaiserslautern
Regionalmanagement Nordhessen GmbH, Kassel
TU Darmstadt
Agentur für Arbeit Darmstadt
Fachschule für Technik Kassel e. V.
Handwerkskammer Kassel
Handwerkskammer Wiesbaden
Hessen Trade & Invest GmbH, Wiesbaden
IHK Darmstadt Rhein Main Neckar
IHK Hessen-Innovativ GbR, Frankfurt am Main
IG BCE Landesbezirk Hessen-Thüringen
Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Darmstadt
RKW Hessen GmbH, Kelsterbach
HESSENMETALL Verband der Metall- und Elektro-Unternehmen Hessen e. V.., Frankfurt
Economic development of the Lahn-Dill district

Funding and duration

Federal Ministry of Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, 3 / 2021 - 12 / 2022 and 1 / 2023 - 12 / 2026

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