Digitalization & Automation

With its uniquely strong ICT, mechanical engineering and software expertise, Saxony can set its own course in robotics technologies. Young robotics start-ups as well as established automation companies and renowned research institutes contribute to this.

As part of both the software industry and the creative industries, the games / interactive technologies (APIT) sector is one of the fastest-growing fields and has great potential, particularly at the interface to the industrial branches and the education sector.

Firewalls and virus guards alone are not enough to protect factories, hospitals and power plants from cyberattacks. In Saxony, software experts are working on protection mechanisms for IoT applications that are difficult to defeat.

When cars and machines can interact with each other and with people in real time, communications engineers have an important role to play. Saxony's players are involved in the development of mobile communications technologies for the transmission of large amounts of data without delay.