Digital Economy

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.

In a successful field trial, engineers test the capabilities of three self-driving rovers on Mars-like terrain in the Sahara Desert.

A sophisticated robot is tested for the first time in Zurich’s sewers to see if it can one day do the job nobody wants – inspecting sewer pipes.

An EU initiative will help companies create new platforms for connected smart objects with minimal investment.

Pollution is a serious issue in many parts of the world, especially in urban areas. Using novel graphene-based materials, researchers from the Graphene Flagship Functional Foams and Coatings Work Package have provided solutions to tackle environmental contamination, among other applications.

Integrating graphene sheets into silicon photonics could form the basis for next-generation data communications. Researchers from the Graphene Flagship initiative have pushed the technology closer to application by demonstrating the world’s first high-speed graphene-based data communication at a data rate of 50 Gb/s.

Graphene Flagship researchers produced graphene-based spintronics devices that utilise both electron charge and spin at room temperature. Demonstrating the spin’s feasibility for bridging distances of up to several micrometres, results open up new possibilities for integrating information-processing and storage in a single chip.

The world''s first two-dimensional material, graphene, possesses unique and outstanding properties. A major EU-funded initiative has developed the material and its application in a myriad of new technologies.