Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech expect to obtain US approval to market their corona vaccine this month. The companies claim that their vaccine is effective in treating patients. These concern preliminary results of the Phase Three trials of a corona…
The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and the children’s department of the Erasmus Medical Center in the Dutch city of Rotterdam are starting a trial which involves the 3D printing of medication. This is what Daniel van der…
A small Greek island in the Aegean Sea that has just over 1300 inhabitants will soon play an important role for Volkswagen in the development and testing of new mobility concepts. The Wolfsburg-based company announced this at the end of…
You notice especially once you can no longer smell something just how important your nose and sense of smell are. When you cannot seem to taste anything anymore because your sense of smell and taste are connected. COVID-19 may affect…
I think I can call myself an Apple fan. I love the fact that sophisticated and slick design is used in every aspect of their products, from their operating system to packaging. But that’s not the main reason for my…
EIT InnoEnergy in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, is a vehicle from the European Commission which invests money in start-ups that are developing innovative technologies in the field of sustainable energy. This autumn, Innovation Origins will publish a series of ten stories…
The climate is changing and we are all going to notice the consequences, all over the world. There are plenty of plans to prepare for this or even to reverse the process. But as an alderman for a medium-sized city…
A charging station. Few people in Northern Europe will raise an eyebrow about that. After all, Amsterdam got its first charging station as early as 2009, and nowadays the Dutch metropolis is littered with around 1500 of them. But when…
Just as the brain is still the most elusive part of our body, artificial intelligence is still an undiscovered land. As human beings, we have come to accept that our brains control our bodies. That is not the case for…
Better cooperation between humans and machines in manufacturing processes. This is exactly what Omron’s self-learning assembly line is trying to achieve. Omron is one of the world’s largest players in the field of industrial automation. Since recently, this demo is…