Pedestrians are constantly avoiding collisions with oncoming people. Meters in advance they unconsciously change their walkway to pass each other. Physicists of the Eindhoven University of Technology analyzed, in collaboration with American and Italian researchers, 5 million pedestrian movements at…
Yvonne van Hest is responsible for the PEOPLE domain as Program Director at Brainport Development. In her columns for IO Eindhoven, she focuses on regional developments, backgrounds and trends in education and the labour market. I think we have achieved quite a lot…
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has designated the MOBiLus consortium as the winning Innovation Community on Urban Mobility. The winning project has a budget of 1.6 billion euros for the next seven years. EIT will fund 25% of that amount.…
Nowadays cars hardly ever break down, and that’s a good thing because before you know it you’re standing alongside the road with a yellow vest and you’re mistaken for someone who’s protesting against whatever it may be that the yellow…
BREMEN, December 15, 2018 – Robots have long been an important part of industrial production. They are also fulfilling more and more functions in logistics, especially in the internal logistics of an industrial company. In the past, they could only…
A device that provides foetal and maternal heart rate monitoring that is non-invasive and more accurate than conventional methods, has been brought to market by Nemo Healthcare, after more than ten years’ research using advanced signal processing. The start-up says…
Thanks to a loan from Coca-Cola, Ioniqa can accelerate the development and deployment of high-grade recycled content PET for use in Coca-Cola’s plastic bottles. Ioniqa is a spin-off of the Eindhoven University of Technology and the Dutch Polymer Institute and…
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, Innovation Origins has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Lucia Parlanti Country of origin: Italy Work:…
This afternoon the new Lightyear production hall was officially opened at the Automotive Campus in Helmond. In the summer of 2019, the first prototypes will roll out of the hall. In addition, the young car company has announced a collaboration…
The car-sharing platform Amber opened new offices in the Innovation Powerhouse in Eindhoven’s Strijp-T district this week, using the occasion to celebrate its achievements over the 21 months since it was founded. These milestones include a fleet of 140 fully…