Powerful words

Straights are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.

Colin McRae, World Rally Champion
Most popular
Rolling through the ages
Engineering
Rolling through the ages
You can rarely see them, practically never hear them but whenever something is moving in the world, chances are that a bearing is involved. A time journey tracing the history of hidden talents.
Humanoids: The future begins now
Engineering
Humanoids: The future begins now
Companies around the world are testing and planning the deployment of humanoid robots at full stretch. At CES 2026, Schaeffler is showcasing forward-thinking technologies for exactly those kinds of robots.
Obsessed with reduction
In Motion
Obsessed with reduction
95 years ago, a young man made aviation history. In May 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh was the first pilot to cross the Atlantic in a solo non-stop flight. His success formula was to save weight. He even chose not to have a radio and parachute on board.
Smart lines
Digital
Smart lines
Practically all products today have their own identifier: a barcode. A beep and the checkout terminal knows the article’s name, its price, its tax rate and more, thanks to some black and white bars.
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.
Impeccably round and smooth
Engineering
Impeccably round and smooth
Perfectly shaped steel spheres as rolling elements in bearings exhibit variances only in the micrometer range: a manufacturing technology feat whose invention dates back 140 years in 2023.
Energized
Engineering
Energized
Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla: The innovation race of the three inventors that became known as the “war of currents” changed the world and dramatically shows what kind of strategic tensions ideas may be exposed to on their way into reality.
Top trumps
In Motion
Top trumps
For 130 years engineers have been investing enormous energy in the development of the automobile. Increasingly faster, safer, comfortable and efficient. 14 representative milestones on four wheels.