Digital Economy

EU-funded researchers have developed a cloud-based platform to reduce energy use in buildings and battery energy storage systems to benefit end users and utility providers.

European researchers help textile companies in Prato, Italy, increase the value of their fabric and yarn collections.

Online deceit can harm society at every level. The 11th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ) in Lausanne has aired how the communication curse can undermine public health.

EU-funded researchers have created a groundbreaking platform to meet industry’s need for low-energy, small-size, complex and high-performance circuits.

The EU- and industry-funded Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) held its annual Stakeholders Forum in Brussels on a very rainy 12 June, the venue being the gorgeous Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. The topic discussed: Brain health and disease, and how digital technologies are transforming the search for new treatments and patient care.

EU-funded researchers have developed nano-vehicles that can overcome the body’s immune response and biological barriers to deliver drugs to the target site.

The human ability to use a ‘tool’ (our brain), to build another tool to explain the workings of the first tool, is an evolutionary gift that distinguishes us from other animals. Powerful simulation engines like “The Virtual Brain” exemplify both this gift, as well as its unwrapping.

As a European Flagship Programme, the Human Brain Project (HBP) embraces ICT advances and pools distributed neuroscience and neuromedicine resources and competences. This more unified view of the brain will benefit both people and technology.

Fast, accurate and affordable food safety testing is now possible. Thanks to a portable scanner, farmers, food manufacturers and retailers can now do their own tests in the field, eliminating costly and time-consuming lab tests.

In our final article based on our trip to Bucharest, Romania, to attend the European Robotics Forum from 20-22 March, we have a look at how some of the robots present at the event’s exhibition promise to provide a new and competitive edge to European industrial prowess.

CORDIS had the great pleasure to be present at the European Robotics Forum, Europe’s largest event dedicated to the European robotics industry, that took place in Bucharest, Romania, from 20 to 22 March. We met many fascinating robots and the brilliant and talented minds behind them in an event which saw the Romanian capital truly become ‘the European capital of robotics.’

How can citizens control their online privacy? How can companies comply with European data protection laws? Six helpful tools developed by an EU-funded project provide the answers.

CORDIS had the great pleasure of being in attendance of the European Robotics Forum in Bucharest from 20-22 March. One of the things that truly struck your writer was the number of robots featured in the exhibition that have been designed and constructed with healthcare in mind.

Researchers are developing tools to substantially reduce the operations and maintenance costs of wind farms. The novel tools will be tested on three European wind farms in 2020.

A breakthrough in fabricating atom-thin processors may radically change the nanochip landscape. Researchers report that their new method outperforms current methods in many ways.

A new role-playing game for international personnel deployed in conflict zones provides critical training in soft skills.

In issue 66 of Research*eu magazine, our special section highlighted several EU-funded projects that have worked hard to improve the lives of visually-impaired people through innovative technological solutions. The ABBI project was featured due to its pioneering device that would help visually-impaired children develop a better sense of space. Coordinator Dr Monica Gori tells us how much further along the road to commercialisation they’ve travelled since we last spoke.

Imagine a humanoid robot able to help industry workers carry heavy objects around or to assist doctors in their physiotherapy sessions. Such versatile robots will soon be a reality thanks to work under the EU-funded CogIMon project.

To help countries gain rewards for forest protection, researchers have developed a better way to measure the carbon stored by their forests by using drones and satellite signals.

Scientists have demonstrated how tiny robot swarms could be programmed like cells to form shapes together by relying on interactions with their neighbours.