Tomorrow is good: Watch out for the undercover assistant.
“Apple listens to sex via Siri” has been headlining the media a lot over the past week. So, Apple joins Google and Amazon, the illustrious list of companies that listen in on our lives...
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Dutch student association Serpentine seeks new AI applications via video games
The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in video games could form the basis for new applications in the real world. This is the starting point of the Serpentine student association. They...
Start-up of the Day: ‘Autonomous robots make life easier, more fun and safer.’
Self-propelled robots are increasingly more common in industry. RUVU makes software that allows a robot to work autonomously. That’s how they help various companies in various industries with...
20 robotics start-ups in with a chance to win 220,000 euros this autumn
Twenty start-ups in robotics have a chance this to win a total of 220,000 euros from a European subsidy pot as part of the Horizon 2020 innovation program. This will enable them to pay for the...
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Research by KU Leuven brings proof: Messi is ‘goater’ than Ronaldo
Researchers at KU Leuven and data intelligence company SciSports have developed a new algorithm to assess football players’ on-the-ball actions. Their model goes beyond traditional player...
TU Eindhoven’s Sjoerd Romme is the first European scholar to receive the Career Achievement Award from Academy of Management
TU Eindhoven Professor Sjoerd (Georges) Romme is the recipient of this year’s Distinguished Scholar-Practitioner career achievement award of the Academy of Management (AOM). He received the award...
40 Students from all over the world on an expedition in Brainport Eindhoven
If you want to keep the talent pool for your region well-filled, you have to start young and throw the net wide open. That’s exactly what the Young Brainport Summer School, which introduces a...
Top 10 Emerging Technologies (3): Tiny Lenses
World Economic Forum (WEF) asked a group of international technology experts to identify this year’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies. After soliciting nominations from additional experts around the...
Ancient wood helps reconstruct glacier formation
At the University of Innsbruck there is a marked expertise in dendrochronology, also known as tree-ring dating research. The aim of science is to date wood and to draw conclusions about...
Start-up of the day: NeoSound makes analysis of call center calls easier
NeoSound Intelligence makes it easier to monitor the quality of calls in call centers. Normally this is done by listening to recordings based on your own selection. This takes a lot of time and only...
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Top 10 Emerging Technologies (2): social robots
World Economic Forum (WEF) asked a group of international technology experts to identify this year’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies. After soliciting nominations from additional experts around the...
Fraunhofer, Signify and TU Eindhoven to lead European LiFi-project
A new European project wants to find out what light – instead of radio waves – can do for the Internet of Things: ELIoT, Enhance Lighting for the Internet of Things. The project...
Start-up of The Day: presize puts an end to online fashion returns
Everyone knows that problem: You order pants, a shirt, a jacket, exactly your size and when the piece arrives, it is either too big, too small, too tight, too wide… And you send it back. On...
Start-up of the day: Munevo – wheelchair mobility using head motion
Healthy people can hardly imagine what it is like to be immobile and have to sit in a wheelchair. It is especially difficult for those who cannot move their mobile vehicle manually. As then they are...
Emotionalizing digital long-distance communication between grandparents & grandchildren
When grandparents engage with their grandchildren, their interaction is essentially characterized by haptics. An element that is completely absent from long-distance digital contact. Verena...
Start-up of the day: CoVince is the ‘Netflix of e-Learning’
Richard van Tilborg, co-founder of CoVince, describes his idea as “the Netflix of e-learning”. By which he means that CoVince is a platform on which all kinds of various e-learning...
Mathematics as a technology unites sectors and creates innovation
“The future depends on the combination of humanities and mathematics.” That’s what Janne Brok, director of Sioux Lime, says. The company uses mathematics as a technology for...
Start-up of the day: 3DQR aims to make AR integration accessible to everyone
Do you still remember the days when we had to build each website independently? When there was no WordPress, Jimdo & Co.? We are currently at this stage when it comes to Augmented Reality: Those...
App allows citizens to participate in research on hail
Every year, hailstorms cause major damage to agriculture and the economy in general. The aim of hailstorm research is to provide data that can be used for damage prevention. Hails events are...
Effect Photonics is not afraid of competition: ‘Alternatives just make the product stronger’
Photonics is becoming increasingly more important as a technology. More and more devices are being connected via the Internet. The optical chip from Effect Photonics can contribute to a better and...
12 of the world’s top 20 innovative economies are in Europe; Switzerland remains on top
Switzerland is the world’s most-innovative country, followed by Sweden, the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, according to the 2019 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII)....
Multidimensional hypercubes: Quantum physicists discover new atomic state
Schrödinger’s cat is a term from quantum physics. It is synonymous with atomic states which are used in the development of quantum technologies. Now a research team has discovered a new kind...
Effect Photonics is growing: ‘always look a few steps ahead’
The Eindhoven-based photonics company Effect Photonics is becoming more and more of an international player. A doubling of the staff meant that the company had to move to a new and larger office....
Sensors in your smartphone as an interactive story source
Data collection by our smartphones is not only valuable for advertisers. It can also be used to tell interactive stories, as ‘story designer’ Steye Hallema has discovered. A form of...
Gerard & Anton Award winner Skotty: Privacy for everyone
The Gerard & Anton Awards have been presented again! High time to have a closer look at the winners and what we can expect form these start-ups in the coming years. Today: Skotty Read all our...
