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“It was warm, it was busy, it was exciting and it was great fun,” said Dean Müller from the team at Professor Phillip Klimant’s Chair of Virtual Technologies, summing up the events of 14 June 2025 on Schlossteichinsel in Chemnitz.
As part of the KOSMOS Festival in Chemnitz, the Chair’s team, together with the PAL (PerspektiveArbeit Lausitz) project team, the Institute for SME Cooperation (MIKOMI) and the Regional Future Centre Saxony (RZS) and their partners, presented themselves at a stand.
KOSMOS Chemnitz is a cultural festival encompassing music, social events, sport and art. It offers a wide range of activities and performances featuring artists, musicians, initiatives, companies and sporting personalities, which underlines its diversity and inclusivity. According to the organisers, over 115,000 guests attended the festival this year and were able to choose from over 300 programme items.
It was warm, it was packed, it was exciting and it was great fun,
is how Dean Müller from the team at Professor Phillip Klimant’s Chair of Virtual Technologies sums up 14 June 2025 on Schlossteichinsel in Chemnitz.
As part of the KOSMOS Festival in Chemnitz, the Chair’s team, together with the PAL (PerspektiveArbeit Lausitz) project team, the Institute for SME Cooperation (MIKOMI), the Saxony Regional Centre for the Future (RZS) and their partners, presented themselves at a stand.
KOSMOS Chemnitz is a cultural festival encompassing music, social events, sport and the arts. It offers a wide range of activities and performances featuring artists, musicians, initiatives, businesses and sporting personalities, underlining its diversity and inclusivity. According to the organisers, over 115,000 guests attended the festival this year and were able to choose from over 300 programme items.
At the Zukunftszentrum Sachsen stand, the focus was entirely on the changes taking place in our world of work – exciting, tangible and rooted in real life. The Chair of Virtual Technologies presented true-to-scale models using an augmented reality app. This app, developed in collaboration with the Berlin-based company Faszinaturen, enables users to view and interact with virtual models in the real world. (Further information here)
As part of the KOSMOS event, PAL unveiled an innovative, intuitively programmable and mobile robot. This robot aims to encourage both children and adults to engage deeply with the topics of technology and digitalisation. The playful approach helps to break down a significant barrier to entry, thereby reducing preconceptions about these topics.
Particularly noteworthy is the application of this method in the project, which focuses on businesses in the Lausitz region. These businesses are at the start of their digitalisation journey and benefit from a playful introduction to technical and digital concepts. The use of the robot makes these complex topics more accessible and fosters a positive attitude towards digitalisation.
Digitalisation, AI and automation are permeating our lives and making us increasingly sedentary. However, a strong body and a clear focus are our response to the challenges of a volatile world.
Together with PAT ELEMENTS, MIKOMI has therefore organised short exercise sessions. These sessions allowed participants to experience first-hand how exercise feels and how much it strengthens us. After all, only the interplay between the digital world and human focus leads us to success.
As well as numerous interested guests, who were given an insight into current research topics, opportunities were also provided to network with other researchers and companies.
Text and photo: KOSMOS team
