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green energy

New virtual currency and AI improve green energy supply

Thursday 19/03/2020

Today more and more companies & individuals are using solar panels. Good and sunny weather leads to surpluses of green energy, but according to VUB researchers, the current support measures do not sufficiently encourage consumers to use more green energy, and the price of energy depends on the energy producers.

Surgical Augmented Reality Assistance

Thursday 19/03/2020

A team of VUB ETRO and imec researchers is developing a technology that projects medical scans on the body of patients in real time during surgery. Using augmented reality (AR), the 3D models are shown in the exact place of operation, allowing for more precision. Also, the AR technology can be used to train medical students.

Axiles Bionics

Smart robotic prostheses for lower limb amputees

Friday 06/03/2020

This 3-part exclusive Youtube series 'Dox' investigates how the future of our body will look like. Scientists explain how technology is going to enhance our lives, and even be able to save it. In this episode they talk about spin-off Axiles Bionics and professor Bram Vanderborght explains the function of a robotic prosthetic foot (from 3:23 min).

TumorScope

Artificial Intelligence used to detect tumors

Monday 02/03/2020

In cancer, AI has shown great promise in characterizing tumors, suggesting appropriate treatments and predicting patient survival. Despite the large potential impact on patient well-being and outcome, a digital health research platform, integrating multimodal data and advanced analytics, is slow to emerge, not in a small part due to (legal) data privacy restrictions.

double pass

double pass partners with FIFA

Monday 02/03/2020

VUB spin-off Double pass specialised in sport technical and talent development management, has been chosen as the partner to roll out FIFA’s new groundbreaking Talent Development Programme. This worldwide project, in which it is expected 120 nations will participate, will be rolled out in several phases.

AI wheelchair

VUB develops self-learning automatic wheelchair

Monday 02/03/2020

A team of scientists active within the VUB AI Experience Center has now developed a new algorithm for a self-driving wheelchair that learns much faster and independently on the basis of trail and error than existing versions. This innovation is more than just scientific research.

kris thielemans

€3m for new cancer offensive

Wednesday 26/02/2020

A consortium of the VUB and three Flemish companies has a budget of 3 million euros to test a new immunotherapy on patients with colon cancer. (Ex-) professor Kris Thielemans (VUB) is the scientific leader of the project.

Ursula von der Leyen president European Commision

President of EC visits AI Experience Center

Thursday 20/02/2020

The VUB AI Experience Center is a high-tech test, demonstration and meeting environment where companies, technological entrepreneurs, researchers and policy makers can experiment with AI and work together to develop and produce technological solutions. This center is part of the joint plans of the VUB and ULB to set up a European AI for the common good in Brussels.

Chronic pain kids

Education program helps kids with chronic pain

Wednesday 19/02/2020

Research by Prof. Kelly Ickmans and Roselien Pas shows that pain education works successfully with children who suffer from chronic pain. Thanks to PNE4Kids, a Pain Neuroscience Education program, kids are less sensitive to pain, are less inhibited in their daily activities and experience less fear of pain.

Konligo

Konligo raises €300k for its durable stands

Tuesday 18/02/2020

In only a couple of days, the VUB spin-off Konligo that wants to revolutionise the event sector, has raised €300.000. The objective is to accelerate the development of its lightweight and transformable structures. The fundraising was done via the Lita platform, which offers investments to social or environmental entrepreneurship. Read more.

hbits

First VUB spin-off in Social Sciences

Monday 10/02/2020

At the end of 2019, hbits was officially welcomed as a spin-off of VUB.

ghostly

VUB gaming-app helps patients with muscular disorders

Thursday 06/02/2020

“Ghostly” is an Android game for rehabilitation of patients suffering from motor and neuro-muscular disorders. In the game’s challenging and rewarding game scenarios, a character will be controlled by the muscle activity of the patient, sensed from the Delsys Trigno Avanti Sensors and interpreted by the game software.