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AI100 Report Graphic “AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI,” with white lettering and irregular light-blue horizontal bars on a dark-blue background.
10. November 2026

AI100 Longitudinal Study Examines How AI Has Evolved, Entered the Mainstream, and Is Reshaping Society

The AI100 Report 2026 examines advances in artificial intelligence and their impact on science, business and society. Co-author Lucie Flek from the University of Bonn and the Lamarr Institute...
Group photo of researchers and participants at the ELLIS Unit NRW AI research kick-off in Siegburg, standing on a stage beside an ELLIS banner.
16. October 2026

ELLIS Unit NRW Launches Scientific Collaboration at Kick-off Event

ELLIS Unit NRW launches its joint AI research activities at a scientific kick-off in Siegburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. The European research network connects eight institutions to advance...
Composite image showing a portrait of Francis Halzen on the left and the IceCube laboratory at the South Pole beneath a starry sky on the right.
06. October 2026

Francis Halzen receives the Nobel Prize in Physics

Francis Halzen receives the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to IceCube and the discovery of cosmic neutrinos. Researchers affiliated with Lamarr at TU Dortmund University contribute...
Zorah Lähner stands in the middle, holding a certificate and an award folder at DAGM GCPR 2026.
23. September 2026

Zorah Lähner Receives German Pattern Recognition Award

Zorah Lähner receives the German Pattern Recognition Award 2026. The University of Bonn professor and Lamarr Institute Principal Investigator researches 3D shape analysis and geometrically grounded...
25 million euros for AI cancer research in Bonn: (from left) Prof. Dr. Bernd Weber, Prof. Dr. Michael, Prof. Dr., and Prof. Dr. Uwe Reuter, at the launch of AI4CancerCure.NRW at the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia
04. September 2026

€25 Million for AI Cancer Research in Bonn

AI cancer research in Bonn receives €25 million from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. UKB, the University of Bonn and the Lamarr Institute are establishing a joint infrastructure for...
Composite image showing Professor Maren Bennewitz on the left and a multi-armed robot working among pepper plants in a greenhouse on the right.
24. August 2026

AgriLoop Combines Multimodal AI with Spatial Perception and Robotics

Greenhouse robotics and multimodal AI are the focus of AgriLoop, a German-Taiwanese research project led in Bonn by Lamarr researcher Maren Bennewitz. The project links natural-language instructions,...
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14. August 2026

DFG Funding: Giant Magnet to Search for Axion that could Transform Our Understanding of Matter

A ten-meter-long magnet is designed to track the Sun in search of a particle that has never been directly detected. A total of six million euros have been allocated to build the BabyIAXO magnet...
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03. August 2026

Lamarr Researchers Shape ELLIS AutoML Summer School in Dortmund

Automated machine learning is evolving from the optimization of individual model parameters towards the coordination of entire experimentation processes. How AI agents can select tools, plan...
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24. July 2026

Laborjournal: Jürgen Bajorath Discusses the Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery

Artificial intelligence in drug discovery: In a recent Laborjournal essay, Jürgen Bajorath explains why explainable AI is essential for integrating computational and experimental research and why...