This afternoon the new Lightyear production hall was officially opened at the Automotive Campus in Helmond. In the summer of 2019, the first prototypes will roll out of the hall. In addition, the young car company has announced a collaboration with the leasing company...
The car-sharing platform Amber opened new offices in the Innovation Powerhouse in Eindhoven’s Strijp-T district this week, using the occasion to celebrate its achievements over the 21 months since it was founded. These milestones include a fleet of 140 fully electric...
An extra EU investment of €17 million to boost production of PICs The Netherlands, a number of provinces and regions, companies and knowledge institutions are together investing 236 million euros in accelerating the development of integrated photonics under the flag...
Today, December 13th, is an important milestone in the development of the integrated photonics ecosystem in the Netherlands. Professor Ton Backx is President of the Institute for Photonic Integration at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Backx led the...
The Brabant region in the Netherlands continues to strengthen its position as a flagship location for the Dutch and the European High-Tech Systems and Materials (HTSM) sector, benefitting from fruitful and targeted cooperation between government, business and research...
A conversation with Willem Endhoven, managing director at HighTechNL, about the high-tech sector in Brabant – and throughout the Netherlands. More about Brabant's ambition in the European High tech Industry. Brabant high-tech is not an island High-tech innovation in...
Integreat, founded in Augsburg, Germany in 2015, is a mobile guide for newcomers and the winner in the category 'Access to rights and information'. It provides the people arriving in a city with all relevant information in their native language. It facilitates...
Okay, it's not a Lightyear with a driving range of at least 400 or even 800 kilometres and an almost-all-solar concept, but still, the Sion from Munich based Sono Motors is an interesting car. It is an electric car with integrated solar panels that can charge the car...
With one stem cell of a cow, you can culture thousands of kilos of meat. In theory, it is even possible to grow enough meat in 25.000-litre bioreactors to feed tens of thousands of people for a year. So why is this not happening yet? In 2013, the first burger of...
Gaby Gomes Branco, an industrial engineering student at TU/e and a co-founder of Maps Untold, meets me in the Innovation Space of the university. She is very busy nowadays, as well as her colleagues: together they are working on Maps Untold – a new platform that helps...
The Katowice Climate Change Conference is in full swing. It inspired our cartoonist Albert Jan Rasker to draw this animated video: Katowice Climate Control. https://youtu.be/ddb8i0U7shk
WARSAW, 11 December 2018 - Now the Climate Change Conference is held in Katowice, the question may be raised how Polish companies are working for a greener future. If anyone would know, it would be Agnieszka Kozłowska-Korbicz, who invented and ran a GreenEvo Programme...
Roboat is a research project aiming to develop the world's first fleet of autonomous floating vessels. It is a new kind of on-demand infrastructure: autonomous platforms will combine together to form floating bridges and stages, collect waste, deliver goods, and...
VIENNA, 10 December 2018 - There was a time when skiing accessories protected people from the cold and the sun. The trend towards freeriding and snowparks also brought ski accessories that protected against crashes. Part 3 of our series on striking technological...
It's not the first flying car, but it is a very interesting one. The Pop.Up Next is a 1:4 scale model from Audi, Airbus and Italdesign showcasing a flying taxi concept. The idea is that a drone can pick up a self-driving car and transport it further through the air....
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‘Precisely because things are going so well in Brainport Eindhoven, it is important to link the power of today to the challenges of tomorrow’. Arnold Stokking, Managing Director Industry at TNO and initiator of the future exploration of Brainport Eindhoven; where are...
HAMBURG, 9 December 2018 - Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution, is already changing not only industrial production, but also the world of work. Digitilisation, the increasing use of adaptive robots and systems for production and logistics control make...
High-volume and complex data flows make it difficult to detect cyber-fraud, particularly if the fraud is specific or one-off in nature. Bram Cappers devoted his PhD research at the TU/e Department of Mathematics and Computer Science to solving this problem and is now...
I’ve been writing and talking about digital humans for some time now, strongly and assured they will enter our lives sooner than we expect. The other thing that keeps me thinking is the impact it will have on a number of aspects in society. Ethics: how do we go about...
Solar and wind energy have become quite normal, even in your backyard. But how about other ways of green energy? With the Home Biogas 2.0, you can turn organic food waste into biogas. That way you can have own backyard eco cycle. https://youtu.be/xKOG7lb48bI “We aim...
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Tufail Shahzad Country of origin: Pakistan Work: Naval...
When you need water, you can collect rainwater and filter it for drinking. But there’s another way to get your water. Zero Mass's Source takes sunlight and air and makes drinking water out of it. Hey, and if you're really interested, also take a look at this students'...
It doesn't ring a bell to most people when they hear the name Anteryon, but CDs are known to everyone. Anteryon, then still part of Philips, made millions of lenses a year for CD players from the nineties onwards. Nowadays their optical modules are mainly found in...
An old man visiting his general practitioner is asked to hold a small metal tube in his hands. After a minute the green light on the metal surface goes on. The patient has just undergone an ECG scan with the device called MyDiagnostick, which was developed...
When it comes to durability, chemical industry and durability don’t go hand in hand. The first things that come to mind when talking about chemical industry are often smoking chimneys or hazardous substances. That can’t be durable, can it? But that is...
