The bio-asphalt test road in Groningen has come through the first half of the year successfully. On the test track, traditional asphalt with bitumen, which is extracted from crude oil, has been replaced by bio-asphalt with the plant-based substance lignin.…
Developing modules for artificial intelligence involves much more than just working with numbers and algorithms. Behind every successful project, many other aspects come into play, and they were the subject of discussion during the Back to Business: AI edition. The…
Last week, the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) found that the Netherlands is not well prepared for the consequences of artificial intelligence (AI). In ‘Challenge AI, The New Systems Technology‘ (in Dutch), the council calls for regulation of…
The Eindhoven-based Aristotle Cognitive Training trains football players from the Dutch PSV team to become more mentally resilient. Its next step is to help people with a neurological disorder. Co-founder Maurits Overmans tells us about it. What is Aristotle Cognitive Training? “We make…
Sheep as selective lawn mowers, grazing only what they need. It contributes to the biodiversity at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, Netherlands, which has the ambition to be the most sustainable and innovative campus in Europe by 2025. The sheep…
Tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of bridges in Europe are at the end of their life cycle. In order to avert disasters such as the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa (2018), bridges must be continually inspected…
Almost 40% of all CO2 emissions come from the construction industry. If concrete – currently the most widely used building material – were a country, it would emit more CO2 than India. In order to make construction climate-neutral by 2050,…
Who carries around wallets with them anymore? Throughout the pandemic, it became obvious to street.cash co-founders Artjom Pestov and Paolo Piana that cashless payments were becoming the new normal. Through their web-based QR code application, the IT- and marketing-driven duo…
The office where the scale-up Avular moved into this summer will soon be too small once more, says its new board member Koen Evers. ” We are growing fast, someone joins us every two weeks.” The scale-up, which originated from…
Solar panels embedded in the road surface have the potential to make a major contribution to greening electricity consumption, according to the Dutch research institute TNO. If the 140,000 kilometers of its roads are used as optimally as possible, this…