The working world of the future is likely to see doctors operating on patients remotely, with the help of a robot. Children will be taught not by human teachers but by machines with artificial intelligence. The advantage of this cutting-edge technology is that deploying robots minimizes mistakes and saves money.

Report by Julia Henrichmann

The working world of the future will see many changes. We talk to Joachim Bühler from the German Digital Association Bitkom about the impact on society and a rapidly changing labour market.

When Claudia Kessler saw the first moon landing on television she decided she wanted to become an astronaut. She graduated in aerospace engineering before joining HE Space Operations, which locates experts for the aerospace industry. Around half of the highly talented and highly paid recruits are women. In Kessler’s experience, mixed-gender teams tend to be more creative.

Report by Claudia Laszczak

Stock market turmoil, overcapacities in industry and export slumps - the Chinese economy's once soaring growth rates have become a thing of the past. Millions of jobs are at risk. The government in Beijing is responding with structural reforms. Among the losers are the millions of migrant workers. Report by Mario Schmidt.

The Chinese economy is destabiling, say the pessimists. It's normalizing, say others. What's obvious is that the fear of China as an economic power has taken on a whole new dimension. But is it exaggerated? Marion Hütter explains why an unpredictable Chinese economy can mean risks on a global scale.

Chinese companies have gone on a buying spree in Europe, investing a good twenty billion euros here in 2015. Economist Shuwen Bian has been taking a closer look at this phenomenon. Grit Hofmann rides along with her to Duisburg, where the Chinese state-owned WISCO Corporation has acquired a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp.

Imagine you're a world market leader and nobody wants to work for you - at least not the qualified specialists you need to hold onto your lead. The 'war for talents' - the competition for the best employees - calls for a good recruiter. Joachim Eggers observes a headhunter at work to see how she achieves the seemingly impossible: getting high-caliber professionals to come and work in Wuppertal.

China is restructuring its economy to favor developing innovations. Now the government in Beijing is calling upon domestic enterprises to move more aggressively against foreign competition. We talk to Sandra Heep of the Mercator Institute for China Studies about this new "national champions" strategy and its possible effects on the German economy.

Made in Germany tags along with German customs agents at a trade fair as they look for counterfeit products. Consumer goods are quite often copied illegally, but so are car parts and medications too. The illegal trade causes an estimated 30 billion euros of damage to the German economy annually. Report by Milto Schmidt.

The Bamberger Symphoniker is among Germany’s leading orchestras. Because tradition alone is not enough in the competitive classical music segment, the corporate design has been updated to transform the company’s image. The chief executive now checks currency exchange rates whenever the orchestra goes on tour, to prevent trips becoming a risky financial undertaking.

Report by Christian Uhlig