News from the Lamarr Institute

Prof. Maren Bennewitz and a Lamarr Institute researcher with the RePAIR bimanual robot used for AI-powered reconstruction of Pompeii’s ancient fresco fragments
03. December 2025

RePAIR brings Pompeii’s frescoes back to life

How can works of art that have been broken into thousands of fragments for almost two millennia be restored? The European research project RePAIR – Reconstructing the Past combines robotics, AI,…
Image: researchers holding certificates after receiving the TU Dortmund Sustainability Award for a project on energy-efficient large language models.
30. November 2025

Award for sustainable AI research

The Faculty of Computer Science at TU Dortmund University presented the 2025 Sustainability Award in the category “Completed Projects” as part of its Alumni Day on November 21, 2025. The award…
Authors Christian Bauckhage and Rafet Sifa next to the cover of their open-access textbook Quantum Computing from Hopfield Nets
25. November 2025

New access to quantum computing

Prof. Dr. Christian Bauckhage, co-director of the Lamarr Institute, and Prof. Dr. Rafet Sifa, principal investigator at the Lamarr Institute, have published a new open-access textbook entitled…
Bonn’s Lamarr Institute wins JUPITER Gauss-AI selection: Prof. Gall’s HoMe project advances generative AI, robotics, and egocentric video research
21. November 2025

JUPITER selects first AI projects

Only ten teams nationwide will receive exclusive access to the European exascale supercomputer. With the HoMe project, AI research in Bonn is sending a strong signal in the fields of vision,…
Digital network visualization over Europe at night, symbolizing trusted data spaces and the foundations for sovereign and sectoral AI
18. November 2025

Data spaces and vertical AI: Europe’s path to digital sovereignty

At the conference “European Data Spaces: Towards Sovereign and Sectoral AI” in Paris, Prof. Dr. Jakob Rehof, Co-Director of the Lamarr Institute, emphasized how crucial trustworthy data spaces…
Group picture: European experts at the “Pretraining and Posttraining of Sovereign Foundation Models” workshop ahead of the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty
17. November 2025

Setting the course for European AI sovereignty

Berlin, November 17, 2025. Europe is pooling its expertise to significantly advance the development of sovereign AI models. Initiated by the German AI Association and the Fraunhofer Institute for…