The Robotics Innovation Center (RIC) belongs to the Bremen location of  the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH). Headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchner, here and at the RIC branch office at the University of Osnabrück scientists develop robot systems to be used for complex tasks on land, under water, in the air, and in space. This not only requires a design according to latest mechatronic developments but also programming based on complex, massive-parallel embedded systems solutions.

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH, based in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, and Bremen, and with a project office in Berlin, is the largest research center worldwide in the field of artificial intelligence.