Pro²Future is an Austrian Research Center for Excellent Technologies (COMET) delivering resilient, energy-efficient, and human-centered AI solutions that empower industry and society and promote sustainability.
43+ M€
Cumulated Project Volume
50+
Delivered Demonstrator Projects
320+
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AI & Data & Robotics
Digital Europe
Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Operations and Decision Support
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Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Operations and Decision Support
Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Operations and Decision Support
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turn complex industrial data into decisions operators can understand, trust, and act on – from process prediction to process optimization and from knowledge discovery to document intelligence.
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AI-Driven Robotics and Human-AI Collaboration
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AI-Driven Robotics and Human-AI Collaboration
AI-Driven Robotics and Human-AI Collaboration
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bring AI perception to industrial robots and autonomous systems – enabling reliable operation in complex environments, and human-robot collaboration that workers can understand and trust.
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AI-Driven Software and Process Intelligence
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AI-Driven Software and Process Intelligence
AI-Driven Software and Process Intelligence
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combine generative AI with traditional software engineering methodologies to support a wide range of tasks across the software lifecycle, including software evolution, maintenance, modernization, etc.
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Cognitive Production Systems for Process and Material Industries
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Cognitive Production Systems for Process and Material Industries
Cognitive Production Systems for Process and Material Industries
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combine physical process knowledge with data-driven AI to create production systems that are both accurate and interpretable, enabling real-time control and decision support in metal, polymer, and materials manufacturing.
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AI for Safety-Critical Systems
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AI for Safety-Critical Systems
AI for Safety-Critical Systems
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develop and integrate AI directly into safety-critical systems across industrial and automotive domains, enabling intelligent decision-making, monitoring, and engineering support while meeting stringent safety, reliability, and real-time requirements. Our work spans AI-enhanced digital twins, LLM-assisted safety engineering workflows, software-defined vehicles, cognitive fleet monitoring, and edge AI retrofitting of legacy manufacturing systems.
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Application & Sector
HORIZON Cluster 5
HORIZON Cluster 6
MSCA
Interreg
Steel Industry
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Steel Industry
Steel Industry
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turn complex steel production data into decisions operators can trust and act on, from early defect detection and predictive maintenance to process optimisation, production analytics, and AI-assisted knowledge management.
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Recycling & Circular Economy
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Recycling & Circular Economy
Recycling & Circular Economy
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apply AI across the circular economy value chain, from intelligent waste sorting and adaptive processing of recycled materials to data-driven decision support for sustainable production and supply chains.
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Disaster Response and Critical Infrastructures
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Disaster Response and Critical Infrastructures
Disaster Response and Critical Infrastructures
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- Cognitive sensing, predictive and prescriptive intelligence, and human-centered decision support adaptable to complex and uncertain field environments.
- Modular building blocks and simulation capabilities accelerating the adaptation of validated industrial demonstrators into disaster resilience solutions,
- reduced development risk, integration complexity, and time-to-impact.
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Agriculture
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Agriculture
Agriculture
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transfer proven AI technologies from industrial environments to agriculture, enabling explainable decision support for resource-efficient and low-emission operations, as well as autonomous multimodal sensing for large-scale monitoring of agricultural fields and critical infrastructure. By leveraging dual-use technologies, we advance sustainability, environmental protection, and resilient agricultural systems.
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Smart Manufacturing
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Smart Manufacturing
Smart Manufacturing
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make existing manufacturing systems smarter, applying AI for adaptive process control, quality monitoring, predictive maintenance, and sustainability decision support across metal, polymer, and mixed-industry environments (including upgrading legacy equipment without costly replacement).
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