In light of its frenetic growth, the Rotterdam-based digital freight forwarder Shypple can no longer be regarded as a start-up. And this even though the company was only officially founded in 2016 and has been operational since 2017. The company…
The Irish company Helgen Tech will launch an innovation in 2024 that will enable heavy machinery such as earthmovers, excavators and the like to be converted into fully autonomous vehicles. By doing this, they aim to make landfills and mines…
The Brainport region is a world champion in manufacturing high-tech advanced machines. “Just look at ASML’s chip machines or Philips’ products in healthcare,” says Naomie Verstraeten, program director of Innovation & Technologies at Brainport Development. Staying a world champion is…
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.…
Without thinking about it, we use our face to unlock our phones. Facial recognition as a way to gain entry to events is also becoming more common. Sounds like it might be convenient, until you see what is happening in…
The Brussels investment fund Innoviris has given 500,000 euros of support to the Brussels-based start-up Tapio. The start-up is striving for a world where every company is able to tackle its CO2 emissions by themselves. The company provides software that…
Ukrainians need technical support in their fight against Russian troops. For this reason, an international group of technicians has started the #TechForUkraine initiative. This involves support in areas such as improving cybersecurity, resource distribution, secure messaging, integrated payments, data-driven decision-making,…
3D bin-picking is a technique whereby a robot knows how to recognize and pick up unsorted parts from a bin. A technique that combines robotics, software, camera and image processing. This is an efficient addition to the manufacturing industry as…
I was raised a pacifist by my dear mother, whom I admire for many reasons. Yes, a case of of turning the other cheek and not raising a gun. In the 1980s, I demonstrated against cruise missiles and bought a…
The telephone of René Peters, Director of Gas Technology at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and recently a new board member of the World Energy Council NL, has been ringing off the hook for weeks. Gas prices…