When knowledge becomes spatially experienceable
Future Life
When knowledge becomes spatially experienceable
Using extended reality, learners are moving through virtual worlds interacting with objects and simulations. The added didactic value lies in complex facts not only being explained but directly experienced.
Your friend and helper
Engineering
Your friend and helper
From a mechanical guide dog to a self-learning exoskeleton and magnetically controlled bacteria, researchers at ETH Zurich are busy devising robots for medical applications.
Tomorrow begins today
Digital
Tomorrow begins today
Innovation and digitalization are closely interlinked but they aren’t the same thing. To shape Schaeffler’s future in innovative and digital ways and to identify new business fields, the “Digital Solutions” innovation cluster pursues a three-pronged
Steering reimagined
In Motion
Steering reimagined
The cabin concepts of future vehicle platforms are decisively determined by new by-wire technologies, which is another motion technology that Schaeffler is driving at a fast pace.
Refresh for heavy-weights
Think Green
Refresh for heavy-weights
When the world’s biggest offshore vessel moves platforms weighing thousands of tons on the high seas every component counts. On the “Pioneering Spirit” highly stressed spherical plain bearings ensure that extreme forces are reliably equalized.
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If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

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The Line
Future Life
The Line
Some consider the linear city ‘The Line’ to be a visionary millennial project, others an example of absurdity. Here’s a current-state assessment in the spring of 2023 of how a city is supposed to grow 170 kilometers (106 miles) into the desert.
AI in the cockpit
In Motion
AI in the cockpit
Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving into all areas of life – including aircraft cockpits. The objective is to use digital assistants to make flying smarter and safer and to replace co-pilots in the medium run.
Goodbye hydraulics!
Engineering
Goodbye hydraulics!
Humanoid robots are becoming more powerful, nimble, and agile. Electric motors instead of the previous hydraulic units increasingly operate in their arms and legs. That’s a clearly discernible trend in other industrial applications as well.
Surviving in extreme environments
Engineering
Surviving in extreme environments
They’re found in volcanic rock, in the deepest submarine canyons and under the ice of Antarctica: creatures called extremophiles that are highly resilient in extreme conditions.
Schaeffler at CES 2026: Technologies that move the future
Engineering
Schaeffler at CES 2026: Technologies that move the future
CES is the world’s most important technology show – a test bed for breakthrough developments and global innovators. At CES 2026, Schaeffler is showcasing how smart motion technologies are changing our world.
When knowledge becomes spatially experienceable
Future Life
When knowledge becomes spatially experienceable
Using extended reality, learners are moving through virtual worlds interacting with objects and simulations. The added didactic value lies in complex facts not only being explained but directly experienced.
Steering reimagined
In Motion
Steering reimagined
The cabin concepts of future vehicle platforms are decisively determined by new by-wire technologies, which is another motion technology that Schaeffler is driving at a fast pace.
The future of flying
In Motion
The future of flying
Flying, but greener – that’s what the future of aviation has to look like.