Vopak is joining Elestor in the further development of Elestor’s hydrogen bromine flow battery. The ambition is to scale up the electricity storage capacity of these flow batteries from 200 kWh to 3,000 kWh in a period of 2 years…
The developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) are following each other up in rapid succession. This is having an impact on society as a whole. For example, all kinds of smart systems are being developed to make our…
Carefully making one’s way along the street and in unfamiliar surroundings with the help of a cane could one day be a thing of the past for blind and severely visually impaired people. This is possible thanks to an intelligent…
ONWARD has completed another important step in its mission to help people regain mobility. The company recently announced that it completed a 32 million dollar round of financing. With this money, ONWARD can develop and commercialize their two technologies ARC-EX…
Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world thanks to its clever use of intellectual property rights, but how did that happen? Intellectual property rights are there for all to see, so why does one party seem to…
The elevator button is one of those things in public and semi-public spaces that people touch frequently. It is a hotbed of bacteria and viruses. With the current pandemic, nobody wants to touch this kind of button anymore. It stands…
Artificial intelligence is already being used in medicine. If a doctor picks up his smartphone during an examination, he could use an app to seek support for a diagnosis in an imaging procedure. Other applications include automated appointment scheduling, telemedicine…
Automation makes things easier. But it can also lead to problems. The software of the various systems that make up an industrial process must be able to communicate with each other. In practice, linking software turns out to be very…
When people think of IT, they don’t usually automatically think of natural science and pathology. However, there are several ways in which technology can actually help the way scientists – particularly pathologists – work. There are many ways in which…
“This is an entrepreneur who sees a gap in the market,” says Jan Jonker, professor of sustainable entrepreneurship at Radboud University Nijmegen, (the Netherlands), and professor of social entrepreneurship & new business models at Toulouse Business School (France)..”Someone who is…