DAF Trucks and VDL have presented their first electric truck. With a range of 100 km, it was designed for the distribution of cargo in cities, where the need for quiet, emission-free vehicles is the ...

Have you ever been bitten by a mosquito, and felt nothing at the time? That experience has now been exploited to design a painless injection needle using the principle of biomimicry, which develops ...

Kitty Hawk, a company headed by the ‘godfather of autonomous driving’ Sebastian Thrun, unveiled its autonomously flying air taxi Cora on 13 March. The electrically powered aircraft takes off and lands ...

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has won an order to build an underground transport system in Chicago, USA, between O’Hare airport and the centre of the city. Small electric cars for up to sixteen ...

The best solar panel polishing robot was built by a team from the University of Hasselt. Twelve Benelux student teams competed against each other during the Dutch Technology Week in Eindhoven. It is ...

Researchers have managed to print photosensitive cells in a dish shape, laying the foundation for a bionic eye that could help the blind see again. Although putting cells that convert light into ...

In its ‘Dutch Funding Overview 2017’, StartupJuncture reports that over 757 million euros was invested in Dutch start-ups in 2017 – significantly more than the 260 million euros or so in 2016. The top ...

A tax on the purchase of robots will not result in significant welfare gains for a country. That is the conclusion of research by the Swiss doctoral student Uwe Thümmel, who has defended his ...

People who are not strong enough to walk or who may sometimes lose their way due to dementia, are at risk of becoming isolated. Maja Rudinac has developed Lea, a robot in the form of a walker. Rudinac ...

Dikes protected by vegetated foreshores require less raising and reinforcing than is often planned presently, according to civil engineer Vincent Vuik in his PhD thesis. He received his doctorate from ...

Wie geld heeft, kan technologie benutten om minder snel te verouderen. Dat toont de nieuwe Netflixdocumentaire Don’t die.