With a budget of no less than 750,000 euros, EIT Digital wants to scout the most interesting deep tech scaleups in Europe. In five categories – Digital Tech, Digital Cities, Digital Industry, Digital Wellbeing and Digital Finance – winners have…
Spare parts for the car, kitchen utensils, food and even human organs – there’s hardly anything left that can’t be produced with a 3D printer. A research team from the University of Hamburg and DESY has now developed a new…
The D4Dairy consortium is working on standards that will enable a comprehensive use of data in dairy farming. The focus is on animal health and welfare and product quality. On the Internet of Things, it is no longer selective measurements but…
Starting with nothing more than an idea in 2012, Daan Kersten and Jonas Wintermans developed a complex, high-tech 3D metal printing system in just over three years. They now have a rapidly growing business with a customer list that includes…
Although some have already labelled Virtual Reality as the technology that never broke through, others continue to work hard on the search for useful applications. The medical world seems to be receptive to it, as evidenced by various initiatives that…
Applying a bypass to the heart without opening the chest and without using a heart-lung machine: up until recently, it was a distant prospect. However, with the development of ELANA, a technique that was developed in neurosurgery, this operation is…
Mathematicians and medical physicists at the Medical University of Vienna are trying to combine two medical imaging methods. The aim is to develop a new analytical technique for cancer. The combined method would enable two novel applications: On the one hand,…
Despite medieval setting – the television series Game of Thrones offers very modern points of contact and possibilities for identification, says educational scientist and psychologist Gerald Poscheschnik. He took a closer look at the plot of the successful series. The eighth…
The discussion about electric car or diesel, which is better or more environmentally friendly, divides the motorist nation Germany. Everybody wants to know and defends his point of view with more or less valid arguments. It thus fits perfectly into…
Actually, artificial intelligence’s (AI) purpose is to help people to cope with complex tasks. AI systems can quickly analyse and interpret the large amounts of data generated by modern big data and sensor technologies. They control vehicles or complex production processes.…