The Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) focuses on stimulating business activity more than ever before. Students are prepared for business in various ways. “This is the result of a demand from the students themselves,” explains Robert Al of the TU/e…
It is a student team, as well as an early start-up, but above all a community of people with the conviction that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will turn our entire life upside down: FruitPunch AI wants to give Eindhoven, the Netherlands…
With I-Med Techology’s lightweight main digital loupe, surgeons can call up 3D preoperative information, such as mri-scans or cutting strips, during an operation. This way, they do not have to interrupt the operation. The images from the loupe can be…
Exoskeletons enable a sustainable participation in professional and everyday life. The mechanical engineer Robert Weidner wants to use them where there is a threat of overload – and thus maintain human health in the long term. Exoskeletons are wearable supporting structures…
Combating diseases and optimizing treatments. This is what Helia Biomonitoring, a spin-off from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), is working on. Helia Biomonitoring is developing a technology with which specific molecules in a fluid can be continuously monitored. It is…
The human kidneys filter about 1,500 litres of blood daily and control the water and mineral balance of the body to a large extent. Without them, our body would very quickly poison itself. Even limited kidney performance can lead to…
Worldwide, hundreds of earthquakes occur every day, and more than a million every year. However, most of them have a magnitude of 1 to 2 on the Richter scale and are so minor that they can only be detected by…
According to Federal Environment Agency statistics, a total of 428 terawatt hours (1 TWh corresponds to 1 billion kilowatt hours) were provided from renewable energies in 2018. That is just under 17 percent of final energy consumption in Germany. Of…
Arno Hermans, together with Victor Beerkens and others, devised an accelerator programme especially for sports start-ups, under the name Sport eXperience. That was at the end of 2015. Hermans said that “there are so many beautiful and clever things going…
Traffic lights that talk to their surroundings, cars that communicate with each other to avoid traffic jams or autonomous shuttle buses that take passengers from a to b. It’s all being shown during ITS Europe, the largest European Congress on…