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Revolution of mobile injection molding: With ROBIN, the pultrusion lines. Thus, all of a sudden, previous restric-
founding team has developed a revolutionary technology tions on the design of profiles are dissolved, and an inno-
for the production of hybrid components, which is char- vative opportunity is created for a large number of manu-
acterized by the fact that the machine technology has facturing companies to stand out from the mass market.
become a flyweight thanks to high-performance materi-
als and efficient lightweight design. For example, the in- In a number of following pilot projects, the ANYBRID team
jection molding system, which weighs around 140 kg and would now like to further demonstrate the versatile po-
has a clamping force of up to 12 tons, can be mounted on tentials in order to sell the first ROBIN systems as early
classic industrial robotics or gantry systems for the first as next year. Until then, the team can rely on the funding
time, and can thus be moved freely in space. In this way, within the framework of an EXIST research transfer and
one or more ROBIN systems can be ideally integrated the support of ILK.
into continuous production lines such as extrusion or

Multiple beams at ILK: Outstanding internationalization work
of our institute

Photo lighthouse Moritzburg: © Simone Wollmann. The guiding image of the TUD lighthouses: © geralt | pixabay.

TU Dresden honors selected partnerships, networks and
programs with the status of a lighthouse for particularly
excellent internationalization work. This appointment
appreciates that these decentralized activities bring the
university one step further on its way to a global univer-
sity. As a start, the International Affairs Commission of TU
Dresden announced 22 such shining examples of the in-
ternationalization in September 2021. Among them, the
ILK was awarded three times at once.

UTC Dresden “Lightweight Structures and Mate-
rials and Robust Design”: The Rolls-Royce partner-
ship received this recognition in the category Interna-
tional Network with Outstanding TUD Participation. The
UTC Dresden involves – besides the ILK with its three © Steffen Weigel

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