Artificial Intelligence app checks if people are wearing face masks
ML6, a Belgian company specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning, is launching an application that can tell when someone is not wearing a face mask.
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‘One day, the voting machine is going to be used in the Netherlands’
Jeroen van den Hurk continues to believe in the initiative that VDL took together with Smartmatic and Eurotempest.
Product school turns people without any technical knowledge into digital creators
"From app to podcast to community to shop, marketplace, and more"
Munich Quantum Valley to accelerate quantum research
As part of the "Munich Quantum Valley", the first German quantum computer is to be developed in Munich in cooperation between science and universities.
‘Superintelligent machines are uncontrollable’
According to researchers at the Max-Planck Institute in Germany, it is impossible to program an algorithm that can detect whether or not a superintelligent AI might harm the world.
Neo, state or modern digitalism: How big will the power of Big tech become in 2021?
Each week in this section we offer a follow-up of the best-read stories on IO. We take the trends of 2020 as a guide to the coming year. It will be the year of digitalization.
New tool predicts healthcare needs of corona patients
Thanks to this new tool developed by Swedish researchers, the number of corona patient hospitalizations can be predicted three weeks in advance.
How Digital Saved Education for Executives
"In the absence of digital programs and the surrounding technology that makes it all possible, professional education would have likely ceased to function"
The European Union’s HEPHAESTUS Project: Cable robot to build and renovate façades
A cable robot will build, repair and maintain building façades in the future. A research team from the Technical University of Munich was involved in its development.
In case of fire: Intelligent buildings as lifesavers
A doctoral student at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences has investigated how a digital system can optimize the signposting of escape routes, depending on the location of the fire
Photonics activities Technobis continue as PhotonFirst
Under Daan kersten's new leadership, the company opens a new branch at High Tech Campus Eindhoven
Light from silicon proclaimed as ‘Breakthrough of the Year 2020’
Erik Bakkers is world-leading in the field of nanowires, and his work will undoubtedly result in even more breakthroughs that will benefit the entire world.”
Voice Assistant COALA tells you what to do at work if you can’t quite remember
This intelligent voice assistant should provide people working in manufacturing with answers to every technical question.
New educational app helps children with reading & spelling difficulties
Scientists at the University of Tübingen have developed an educational app that helps people with reading and spelling difficulties to overcome this problem in a playful way from an early age.
Keeping your distance with the help of light
How can light influence your behavior? This is what the IGNITE student team is conducting research into. The team shares the knowledge it has gained with the lighting industry.
3D-printing with a laser, hologram and synthetic resin
Berlin start-up Xolo has developed The Xube in collaboration with two German universities, a new type of "volumetric" 3D printer.
VDL’s picking robot should finally conquer the market in 2021
Farmers are sceptical about the picking robot since it has failed so many times, says VDL director Harrie Schonewille. But if all goes well, one may be brought onto the market in 2021 that will work.
‘The Netherlands can become the Silicon Valley of water management’
Dutch water company Nelen & Schuurmans is traveling the world with their prediction models. According to general manager Fons Nelen, the Netherlands can become a leading country in the field of water
Five test centers in the Netherlands for AI applications for SMEs
Good news for Dutch SMEs: there are five field labs where they can turn to for the application of AI in their production process. This became clear during the EAISI Summit in Eindhoven.
New app: Control your smartphone and tablet by moving your head
Two students at the German University of Würzburg have developed an app to enable people with physical disabilities to operate smartphones and tablets using head movements.