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New spin-off SAY IT Labs
This new VUB spin-off, in collaboration with imec, developed a video game for children who stutter.
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Test determines overtraining in athletes
Athletes can get overtrained. Not good for the body of course, but when are they really going too far and how bad are the consequences? The research team of Romain Meeusen of the research group MFYS has developed a test to determine who suffers from the so-called overtraining syndrome (OTS).
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VUB scientist develops self-healing robots
Humans and robots are increasingly working together. To make this collaboration as safe as possible for people and for the work they do, “soft robots” made of flexible and soft materials are becoming common.
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VUB gaming-app helps patients with muscular disorders
“Ghostly” is an Android game for rehabilitation of patients suffering from motor and neuro-muscular disorders.
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First VUB spin-off in Social Sciences
At the end of 2019, hbits was officially welcomed as a spin-off of VUB.
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Konligo raises €300k for its durable stands
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.
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Education program helps kids with chronic pain
Research by Prof. Kelly Ickmans and Roselien Pas shows that pain education works successfully with children who suffer from chronic pain.
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VUB invests in Smart Village Lab
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a partner in the Smart Village Lab project, the first physical realisation of innovative living lab Green Energy Park. The lab will investigate how living can become smart, sustainable and energy efficient in the future and will be inaugurated in autumn 2020.
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Smart materials indicate metal fatigue
Researchers from the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel have succeeded in building metal parts that automatically indicate when they are overloaded or are causing damage.
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Healthier workplaces thanks to collaborative robotics
Across Europe, 40 million workers suffer from muscle, joint and nerve pain caused by physically demanding tasks. Moreover, such musculoskeletal disorders are the cause of as many as half of all absences in companies and therefore cost a great deal of money.
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