September 2017 -  Robots that clean, mow the lawn and take on complex filigree work - that's no longer a dream today. Using sophisticated technologies and artificial intelligence, they can do many tasks that simply annoy people or that we ourselves can not do better. But there are many hours of work behind the robotic skills, progress and regressive steps, and above all, innovative minds. Some of them are located in the small village of Schöinaich in Baden-Württemberg. How could they revolve around the entire car wash industry, who is a so-called "Cobot" and what a true classic musician has to do with it? This reveals the new episode of "Hidden Champions - the Yamaichi podcast".

Earthrounder, adventurer and sports professional - the e-bike is an all-round talent. There has been a veritable e-bike boom in recent years. The number of bikes sold in 2017 alone was as high as e-cars could only dream of. The bike technology comes from a small village in Upper Bavaria. Hidden champion TQ Systems is working on the drives that move the world. In the 8th episode of "Hidden Champions – The Yamaichi Podcast" we invite you to TQ Systems. We will reveal the special features of the TQ technology and the importance of a true Olympic medalist.

Alternative facts, hacked accounts and fake news - words that are now inextricably linked to the Internet and digitization. No question that politics, entrepreneurs and experts meet regularly to promote the issue of security. But microelectronics is also heavily involved in this - most recently on the "Embedded World". At the trade fair for embedded technologies, we met the security specialist and leading manufacturer of data and security programming solutions, Data I/O. In the 8th episode of "Hidden Champions - the Yamaichi podcast", you will learn why Data I/O is a world champion, how the company "insures" the world from Bavaria and what the bosses of Facebook & Co. are worried about.

WOW was the motto of CES 2018 in Las Vegas. Giant televisions, bizarre gadgets and exotic electric cars shaped the picture of the world's most important digital trade fair and lived up to the slogan. But, with some distance, the question arises: Does CES justify the hype that is being done about it? We have Gary Shapiro, the head of CES, and other key innovators of the show once more to speak. What was really WOW and what more a show - you can hear that and more in the sixth episode of "Hidden Champions - The Yamaichi Podcast".

The CES in Las Vegas is a show of superlatives in a city of superlatives! Innovations that will change our future, more than 170,000 visitors and 3,900 exhibitors from over 150 countries. As the world's premier digital flagship, CES is the place where people from all corners of the globe meet to see what's in store for Smart Cities, Automotive and Artificial Intelligence. And we take you there. In the fifth episode of "Hidden Champions - the Yamaichi podcast", you'll learn why Venice, of all things, has a close connection to Las Vegas, for which a German company receives a CES Innovation Award and what the highlights of CES are.

The first generation earns the money, the second manages the fortune, the third studies art history and the fourth degenerates completely. At least that's what the Prussian-German statesman Otto Fürst von Bismarck felt in the 19th century. And anyone looking at so many family businesses today sees some parallels to Bismarck's view. But there are also companies that do things differently. A particularly successful example is the Schweiger Group from the Bavarian Sauerlach. At SPS IPC Drives in Nuremberg, father and son talk about why failure in family businesses is fatal, where the secrets of success of the electronics industry are and what adoption has to do with it. You can hear this and more in the fourth episode of "Hidden Champions - The Yamaichi Podcast".".

Almost every household in Germany has to do with a company that hardly anyone knows. Vacuum cleaner, washing machine or kitchen appliances, the company Noffz from Tönisvorst in NRW is in all home appliances. Leading in the field of innovative tester solutions, Noffz is not only on the road in terms of "white goods", but plays a key role with Yamaichi on autonomous driving. What exactly is behind it in the third episode of "Hidden Champions - the Yamaichi podcast".

Incredible success stories – not just from a famous garage in the US or a stylish startup in Silicon Valley. Unbelievable success stories also start in Germany, for example in a small terraced house in Neubiberg. What began in the 1970s with a private invention of the brothers Lothar and Stephan Lauterbach, has today become a true world leader in the electronics industry. Why no smartphone can do without the technology of Lauterbach and why the world market leader from the terraced house is a real hidden champion? Find out now – in the second episode of our podcast.

September 2017 -  In the first episode we look behind the scenes of the largest Automotive trade fair in the world, the IAA in Frankfurt. Learn about surprising innovations, for instance the Volocopter. Dr. Joachim Damasky, Managing Director for Technology and Environment of the German Automobile Association (VDA), tells interesting details about autonomous driving. And he discusses about the future of mobility with Helge Puhlmann, European President of Yamaichi Electronics.