Belgin Mutlu

The digitalization process which is more and more merging digital and physical world implicates plenty of challenges for society and economy. Based on a publicly funded research program, the COMET-Centre Pro²Future is assigned to pursue a radically new holistic innovation approach that for the first time envisages the entanglement of products, both in use and design as well, and their production systems: Products and Production Systems of the Future → Pro²Future This new approach does not only require the expertise in existing research fields like man-machine interaction, internet of things, pervasive computing, automation etc which are covered by the consortium of Pro²Future, but can only be tackled by research and development of a new dimension of ICT, the cognitive systems. Pro²Future is shaping such cognitive systems which feature human-like capabilities like perception, understanding, interpretation, memorizing and learning, reasoning, planning and hence cognition-based acting, and implements them both in products and in production systems as well.