A crisis like the corona pandemic calls for decisive measures. The EU has freed up €723.8 billion in an effort to use the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to pull the European economy out of the recession caused by corona.…
Traffic congestion is a major problem for people traveling by car in cities. One of the causes is that traffic lights often fail to respond to actual traffic situations. Lumisera have developed a controller that enables traffic lights to self-regulate…
A dog robot comes out of a warehouse, a little car – with embedded sensors – quickly follows. Entering the building, two kids are controlling them, guided by those who developed the two robots. Both children follow the instructions closely,…
In some countries, clean water is considered a luxury. South Sudan and Ethiopia, for instance, lack complete access to drinking water and most of it comes from wells. Water from there can contain dangerous particles. A student team from the…
Recently I dove back into the chaos of metropolitan Rome traffic. And on a state-of-the-art e-bike: ‘Only €1 to unlock, then €0.23 Download the app, sign up and scan the QR code to find deals in your city! We accept…
Hands-free growing, autonomous cultivation, growing as a service, data-drive growing; if you’ve been following greenhouse horticulture for a while, you will come across these terms more and more often. Experts believe that this is the way to grow enough, healthy…
Grid operator Tennet has slammed the door shut of the electricity grid in Limburg and North Brabant for new businesses. And that is not to the liking of the south side of the Netherlands. “A sledgehammer blow to everything we…
Stilride has developed an electric scooter that is really something completely different – it is sustainable. The design is a mix of retro and futuristic shapes. And it is built using the age-old Japanese paper folding technique, origami. But then…
The European Parliament failed to reach an agreement this week on a crucial climate bill from the package of a total of 14 proposals put forward by European Commissioner Frans Timmermans. After a chaotic vote in the plenary chamber in…
Quantum computers are only at the beginning of their development, but can potentially mean a lot to our day-to-day life. Start-up Qblox from Delft supplies dedicated, fully-integrated quantum control stacks, which are a fundamental part of the quantum computer. In…