Agriculture produces a lot of waste, which is generally destroyed or disposed of in landfills. German and Vietnamese scientists have now found new uses for rice straw and sugarcane by-products. Among other things, it is used to produce erosion control…
Drug residues such as antibiotics, contraceptives, or anti-inflammatories in wastewater or in treatment systems are a problem all over the world. It is difficult to remove these from water and so they end up re-entering the water cycle. Researchers headed…
Thanks to partners like Holland Innovative and Microsoft, Johan Cruijff ArenA’s ecosystem serves as a platform for innovation. Together, they developed a state-of-the-art platform, continuously monitoring the grass conditions, and translating this data into insights for daily operations. This technology…
Two-thirds of the public space in the Austrian city of Vienna is reserved for cars, which spend 98 percent of their time parked. In order to reclaim public space, this city of 1.9 million inhabitants wants to reduce the proportion…
How will robots change the world? A frequently asked and as yet unanswered question. After all, we do not have a crystal ball. What we do know is that digitalization and automation have changed the world enormously in recent decades.…
Local businesses, governments, and knowledge institutions around Brainport Eindhoven (the Netherlands) want to develop an autonomously operating bus transport system that can become an example for the world. The bus system, called ‘Brainport Line’, will connect all Brainport campuses around…
Will Fast corona tests and also the far more complex PCR tests – which often mean you have to wait days for the results – soon become superfluous? Yes, at least to a certain extent. That is according to a…
A new AI Innovation Center at the High Tech Campus wants to drive the application of Artificial Intelligence technologies by companies and organizations in the Brainport Eindhoven region. To achieve this, the campus has secured support from Philips, ASML, NXP,…
Every end of the year, tech experts and news outlets talk about technology’s future and make bold predictions for what’s to come. Many of these are outlandish and unrealistic, at least in the next few years, but other conjectures often…
The German chemical company Basf, together with the Spanish research center Tecnalia, has developed a technology whereby drones and automatic image recognition can be used to see which diseases and/or pests a farmer is dealing with on their fields or…