Exoskeletons that support rehabilitation, prepare astronauts for weightlessness or could one day help control robots in space: the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) are already working together on intelligent robotic systems like these. The two partners are now expanding their collaboration by establishing the ‘DFKI Project Office AURA Lab Duisburg-Essen’ on UDE’s Duisburg campus. AURA stands for ‘Augmentative and User-centered Robotics & AI’. The lab will be headed by Professor Elsa Andrea Kirchner.