The TU Delft Hyperloop team showed their ‘pod’ on Saturday 17 June. They will use it in this summer’s Hyperloop Week in Edinburgh. What are their bonus points?
New: Wubbo Ockels Innovation Prize The Groene Grachten Foundation has launched a new sustainability initiative that rewards the three best sustainable ideas with 10 thousand euros. The Groene Grachten (‘green canals’), which makes monumental houses and offices more sustainable, was the last sustainable initiative from former astronaut Wubbo Ockels in 2012.…
Over 100 teams of first year Mechanical Engineering students designed and built a type of frisbee machine. Which machine threw best at the finals?
The role of robots in healthcare is clear: to make nurses’ work more attractive. The question is how. Gommers: “Surely we can say we don’t know!”
A property manager who becomes the new Honorary Chair of study association ETV: that is new. Who is Jan van der Pol and how does he look back at his long career?
The European Parliament is working on the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) legislation. What does technology philosopher Stefan Buijsman expect from this?
Child-friendly button batteries American girl Reese Hammersmith would have turned four on 13 June last year, were it not for the fact that at the age of just 18 months, she swallowed a button battery that proved fatal to her. Reportedly, this seems to happen to 2,000 children a year worldwide. The current…
Half of TU Delft research is viewed as ‘key technology’. This means that the new Knowledge Security Act will have major consequences. “This is not the right approach.”
Following a motion of censure from the Delft City Council on tram 19’s timetable, the Metropolitan Region is now looking at ‘options for additional transport’.
Geothermal drilling on campus step closer The Leeghwaterstraat has been partially blocked off since the end of May for the purpose of the Geothermal Project. Steel structures with barges, containers and a tall lattice tower have been erected. They are preparations for drilling for hot water to a depth of 2.5 kilometres. …
