With its acquisition of OmniPHY, chip manufacturer NXP has acquired new knowledge concerning autonomous driving. OmniPHY has expertise in the field of automotive Ethernet, which enables fast data transfer, which is necessary for autonomous driving. A revolution in the internal…
In a weekly column, alternately written by Maarten Steinbuch, Mary Fiers, Carlo van de Weijer, Lucien Engelen, Tessie Hartjes and Auke Hoekstra, Innovation Origins tries to find out what the future will be like. The six columnists, occasionally supplemented by…
[this article contains two videos of the event] Leif Luehmann, a student at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), won this year’s pitch competition at the end of Eurotech‘s European Venture Programme with his startup Transport Heroes. In the finals,…
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: Ahmad Alshreidi Country of origin: Syria Study:…
The Eindhoven Library has joined forces with startups Less or More, Beam it Up and Van Alles Wat Design. Under the joint name Moved, they are launching an interactive quiz tool for primary and secondary education. The tool, which aims…
The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the night sky and has now been beautifully imaged by ESO’s (European Southern Observatory) VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. By observing in infrared light, VISTA…
Although the model will be launched in 2020, current simulations show that the Lightyear One could become the most aerodynamic production car on the market. The latest tests show that the Cw value, a measure of air resistance, will be…
Anyone following Innovation Origins will now know that electric driving is in full swing. Sometimes with great leaps forward (through technology, legislation or entrepreneurship) and sometimes with considerable delays (usually caused by the failure of one of these three variables).…
Researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology and Radboud University Nijmegen have developed a laboratory device to speed up research into immune cells. This will enable them, for example, to develop better cancer vaccines in the future. The results of the…
This is the second part of the previously published story about what the industry could learn from football robots. A goalkeeper has to prevent a shot at goal from hitting the net, which is not very different in robot football.…