Online identification and authentication keeps transactions secure on the Internet, however this has also implications for your privacy. Disclosing more personal information than needed onli... Read more
Our life expectancy lengthens and members of the ‘silver generation’ make up an ever-larger proportion of the population. Can technologies help us in caring for ourselves, our older relative... Read more
End stage kidney disease is a global public health problem with an estimated 2.4 million patients on dialysis. The number of new cases is rising (7-8% annually) due to population ageing and... Read more
Have you ever wished you had a virtual time machine that could show you how your street looked last century? Or have you wanted to see how your new furniture might look, before you’ve even b... Read more
This small lab can already detect cocaine consumption, monitor colon cancer, identify bacteria in food and analyse environmental contamination Do you remember James Bond film Casino Royale?... Read more
Numerous other promising avenues exist for the fibre-top cantilever, such as minimally invasive surgery Scientist Davide Iannuzzi and his team have developed a method to place novel miniatur... Read more
Part of a larger smart-home environment A highly customisable robot companion designed by EU-funded researchers to offer support to older people is currently being presented across Europe an... Read more
‘As far as I know, this is the smallest complete radar system in the world,’ EU-funded researchers have squeezed radar technology into a low-cost fingernail-sized chip package th... Read more
In recent years, telepresence systems have become more common. Unfortunately, most of them are little more than a videophone on top of a motorized stick. The EU Commission’s Community Resear... Read more