Engaige, a Rotterdam-based AI start-up, has raised €1 million in seed funding, says the company in a press release. The startup aims to use the investment to expand its team and accelerate the development of safe and reliable human-like customer…
In 2023, only 0.89% of the food purchased by Dutch supermarkets was wasted. The figure comes from a report recently issued by the Wageningen University and Research (WUR). This share refers to procurement volume, the amount of food supermarkets purchase…
Amid the harmful effects of climate change, it is more than important to find innovative and sustainable solutions for a more resilient future. Organized by WaterCampus Leeuwarden, the European Water Tech Week is a meeting point for scientists and companies…
Led by researchers from Saxion University of Applied Sciences, companies, partners and students have jointly designed an innovative electrolysis system, Saxion said in a press release. This system for decentralized hydrogen production uses wind and solar energy to produce hydrogen…
Robots are widely used in the automotive industry and have started entering new application domains such as logistics in the last few years. However, current robots still face many limitations. They typically perform a single action or a fixed sequence…
Giulia Benedetti (Future Materials Bank), Man Yong Toh (Aeroborn), and Billy Kuper (Closist) will compete for the sixth Marc Cornelissen Brightlands Award on Oct. 10 at the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus. After the first selection round, the professional jury, led…
The Netherlands received more than 2.9 billion euros in subsidies from Brussels last year. Almost 40% of this, accounting for over 1.1 billion euros, was specifically earmarked for research and innovation. This amount provides an unprecedented opportunity for Dutch companies,…
The task of navigating through the online network has become particularly challenging after the advancement of artificial intelligence. Social media platforms have been flooded with disinformation, leaving users unaware of certain content’s reliability. There has been a myriad of AI-generated…
Each week, in our Sunday newsletter, we look back on the past seven days. Regarding content, we always do so at the initiative of our cartoonist, Albert Jan Rasker. He chooses a subject, draws a picture, and we take it from…
Twelve ambitious AI startups have been selected to compete in the AI Pitch Competition. The finals are on November 7, 2024, and Innovation Origins will portray each contestant in the run-up to that event. The AI Pitch Competition is a…