Demo market TEKNOWLOGY 2023

A large percentage of bicycle crashes consist of falls where no other vehicle or person is involved. We have developed an electromechanical steering motor that lowers the speed at which a bicycle is self-stable yet still allows a person to comfortably control the bicycle. This allows the rider to share control of the bicycle with the steer motor and can likely reduce the chance of falling. At the demo market you will be able to ride the bicycle and experience the enhanced balance when at very low speeds.

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'I'm not a taxi driver!' - an often heard expression when getting into the car and sitting behind the driver. For equal and good communication we like to walk and sit side-by-side. However, for wheelchair users this isn't an option. Until now. Ziggy, the side-by-side wheelchair accessory, is the first of its kind to allow easy and equal strolling for wheelchair users. At the demo market you can first-hand experience the difference this makes when pushing our latest prototype.

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There will be an NWO desk at the market where you can ask questions. Are you wondering about a certain funding instrument, or looking for a demonstration you cannot find, ask one of the NWO colleagues to help you out.

Other presenters: Brandon Caasenbrood, Ali Amoozandeh Nobaveh, Cor Meijneke, Gijs Krijnen, Ander Vallinas Prieto, Suzanne Filius, Niels Brouwer.

In the Perspectief Wearable Robotics program we developed and evaluated three exoskeletons for different applications : to restore mobility in patients with a spinal cord injury, to prevent progressive function loss in patients with muscular dystrophy; and to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders in dynamic heavy lifting (industry workers) or static high-precision work (medical surgeons). For these exoskeleton we developed enabling technologies within four core areas: lightweight and energy efficient actuation, 3D printed sensors, soft and compliant structures and mechanisms. At the demo market we will bring the three exoskeletons and demonstrators of the developed enabling technologies.

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Next to the research demonstrations, TEKNOWLOGY also acts as a host for some of the Dutch topsectors.

ICT is becoming a more and more important driver for innovation in the Dutch economy. At the same time, digital innovations also play a vital role in overcoming the issues facing society: providing affordable healthcare, safety and the energy transition, for example. This is why Topsector ICT has been designated one of ten Top Sectors in the Netherlands.

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At TEKNOWLOGY we will show three projects: 1. The Virtual Data Lake that makes AI applications on sensitive data easier and safer, a hot topic. 2. Councyl shows how they make a transparent decision model, without historical data, increasingly embraced by the public sector. 3. AI for Business & Government certification is intended for companies that want to work with AI. An variant for MBO students is also being developed as an AI certificate.

Next to the research demonstrations, TEKNOWLOGY also acts as a host for some of the Dutch topsectors.

Holland High Tech is the top sector for High Tech Systems and Materials. Businesses, knowledge institutions and government authorities collaborate intensively in innovation-focused public-private partnerships within our ecosystem.
Teams of Holland High Tech experts develop (key) technologies in a framework of 15 road maps that offer structural solutions to challenges in the fields of climate, sustainability, health, safety and mobility. Holland High Tech’s ecosystem consists of 89,000 companies employing more than 500,000 professionals. Multinationals, SMEs, start-ups and scale-ups that together represent 165 billion euros in production value and over 70 billion euros in export value.

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Holland High Tech's overall aim is to stimulate innovation, collaboration, internationalisation and economic growth. The approach adopted by Holland High Tech has already proven effective as a method for finding solutions and as an incubator for new applications of technology. We actively share this knowledge with the other top sectors and SMEs.

Innovation Brokers (innovatieMakelaars) help SME’s innovate

Are you an SME looking for advice or guidance in the field of product, process or service innovation? Or support for business development, transferring or applying technology? Then you can use the Innovation Broker scheme via Holland High Tech free of charge. Our Innovation Brokers are happy to use their knowledge and experience for the development of your company.

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Free Advice: Professional advice tailored to your specific challenges and goals

Expertise: Use of the extensive knowledge and network of our Innovation Brokers

Coaching: Practical support in implementing and scaling up innovations

Networking: Expand your network and connect with other innovative companies and experts

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Next to the research demonstrations, TEKNOWLOGY also acts as a host for some of the Dutch topsectors.

Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (Health~Holland) works together with public and private parties to promote the economic opportunities of the societal theme Health & Care of the Dutch cabinet’s Mission-driven Top Sectors and Innovation Policy. The coalition does this on the basis of the five Health & Care missions, formulated by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS). The central mission is as follows: By 2040, all Dutch citizens will live at least five years longer in good health, while the health inequalities between the lowest and highest socioeconomic groups will have decreased by 30%. There are four underlying missions that contribute to this central mission through changes to lifestyle and living environment, offering more care in the right place and better perspectives for people with chronic diseases, lifelong disabilities and dementia. With this approach, the Netherlands seeks to effectively tackle major societal challenges. Industry can optimally respond to the economic opportunities that these challenges bring. 

To work on the future from the Mission-driven Top Sectors and Innovation policy, it is important to have a clear and shared picture of that desired future. This is why experts from the Health and Care coalition partners have jointly developed future images, guided by the VWS missions and the Health & Care Knowledge and Innovation Agenda 2020-2023, that outlines what Health and Care will look like in the Netherlands anno 2030.

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How can nature help us to protect the Netherlands against flooding? See in miniature how a living dike works and can hold back the water! A living dike is a dike for which plants grow. This vegetation protects the dike and the villages and towns behind it. Want to test how that works? Build a living dike with LEGO and let go of real waves.

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An integration of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. We can now teach robotics to perform complex tasks instead of programming them. This integration well enable of to automate and improve complex handling in food. The shortage of personnel in food is growing rapidly. Therefore automating these processes is key to keep up with the growing need of high quality and safe food. Furthermore, the data generated by this technology will enable food producers to optimize their processes regarding energy consumption, resources and materials en reduce waste streams.

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NextRound uses sensors and smart algorithms to detect an impact on a free-hanging boxing bag. This opens up the possibility for data tracking in a sport that the Netherlands is famous for: Kickboxing. With this innovation we can help trainers and athletes analyse their performance and to train more effectively but also add more fun and gamification during a workout for a much broader audience. Together with our digital ecosystem, the system can provide digital boxing workouts to anyone and everywhere. 

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RELEASE creates fundamental scientific breakthroughs, technological solutions and policy measures that are critical for enhancing performance and reducing cost of large-scale energy storage systems, based on electrochemical conversion of electricity into molecules, for both the 2030 and 2050 horizon. RELEASE targets three technologies: hydrogen production, hydrocarbon production from CO2, and flow batteries. RELEASE includes universities, universities of applied science, companies, field labs, and governments, in an unprecedented alliance from lab-scale to full implementation. In the demo market we will showcase a custom designed setup for CO2 electrolysis and a custom made laboratory water electrolyzer.

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Additive manufacturing can offer many advantages for industrial food processing equipment. To realize the benefits, often a redesign of conventional parts is needed. However, limitations of current design methods to account for cleanability and cost are hampering this development. In our research, we develop computational design solutions to overcome these limitations.

Aviation contributed to 2.5% of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions, but 3.5% of the total anthropogenic climate impact in 2018. The difference attributes to various non-CO2 effects, e.g., NOx-induced ozone formation and methane depletion, water vapour, and the formation of the condensation trails (contrails). While the aircraft propulsion system becomes increasingly energy efficient, their overall climate impact trend is ambiguous. At the demo market, you will understand the role of various non-CO2 effects in the overall climate impact of aircraft emissions and how they can be incorporated into the aircraft propulsion conceptual design phase to effectively mitigate the climate impact of aviation.

Experience the merge of physical and digital worlds through our revolutionary haptic interfaces: FeelPen and FeelSurf. FeelPen, a multimodal haptic stylus, transcends the boundaries of touchscreens by allowing you to experience warmth, softness, slipperiness, or roughness in your digital interactions. Meanwhile, FeelSurf, a haptic surface, immerses you in a realm of textural sensations, effortlessly felt with your bare fingertips on a touchscreen. The potential applications of these technologies are limitless, from redefining online shopping by allowing users to tangibly perceive clothing textures, to empowering digital artists with unprecedented brush sensations. Join us in a mesmerizing demo, where artificial textures come alive on glass surfaces. Welcome to the future of tactile interaction, where the digital realm becomes palpable.

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How to design and produce Ultra Personalised Products and Services? In the Next UPPS project 3D scanning, fitmapping, parametric design and smart manufacturing are explored to create an integrated methodology to design and produce Ultra Personalised Product and Services (UPPS). Cases provide new insights to complete the UPPS framework for the various steps within the (digital) workflow; data collect, analyse, design, produce, test. At the demo market you will find different examples of projects executed in the domains of health, sports, fashion and safety. Furthermore, experience scanning your ear and receive your virtual version instantly!

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The Lorentz Center is a workshop center that hosts international scientific meetings of typically one week. Our workshops are characterized by an open and interactive atmosphere and their high scientific quality. Daring workshops are very much welcome. We aim to bring scientific fields and minds together and we endorse diversity in the broad sense: scientific level, gender, culture and geography.

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What does life consist of? What do you need to bring something to life? Put on VR goggles and step into the world of scientists. You become so small that you can see all the building blocks of life at the molecular level. Time to look for the building blocks you need to build your own life. Catch the building blocks with your net and build your own life!

Designed and developed by Happy Ship and Chantalla Pleiter in collaboration with Origins Center, Dutch Research Agenda (NWA), Science LinX – Faculty of Science and Engineering, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and researcher Kayleigh Esterik.

The Future Food Formula is an interactive installation by Chloé Rutzerveld that allows you to step into the shoes of a high-tech farmer and design your personalized future vegetables. Imagine… It’s 2030 and every kitchen is equipped with a hightech vertical farming device. You put a seed inside the breeding cell, download or create the growth-recipe of your liking, and watch your personalized vegetable come to life. While designing, you will playfully learn about plant growth; get an insight into how growing conditions like water, the amount and color, light and pH values influence the taste, color, size and nutritional value of our crops. Today, scientists are experimenting with this technology, but mainly for efficiency purposes. What will happen once we start making smart use of the technology, and create entirely new generations of crops with unique characteristics? Without the use of genetic modification, but by closely working together with nature and scientific knowledge. Moving forward to an era in which we will be cooking with growth-recipes instead of ingredients.

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Regenerative medicine is concerned with researching ways to repair cells, tissues and organs that have been damaged by the body's self-healing ability. In doing so, they increase the likelihood of a future possibility of curing people with chronic diseases. Interventions such as transplants or regular injections of insulin, for example, would then no longer be necessary.

In collaboration with Mandy Segers of Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) and Studio Tast, the NWA has developed four interactive exhibits that explain in an accessible way the pathologies of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, kidney diseases and osteoarthritis. Each display shows a well-functioning and malfunctioning organ for each disease picture, and a number of building blocks are used to illustrate in a simple way what is not going well in the various diseases and how regenerative medicine can improve them.

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Our planet becomes lighter every night, and light pollution strongly affects many species in the natural environment, especially nocturnal species. Light at night causes habitat loss, changes natural daily and seasonal rhythms, and disrupts species interactions. Therefore, sustainable lighting is highly important to preserve biodiversity. Here, we demonstrate the impact of light on natural systems, as well as the potential of different light spectra and the need for light tolerance levels to reduce and mitigate the impact of light at night.

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Other presenters: David Rapado Rincon, Akshay Kumar Burusa, Jan de Jong, Boi Okken, Just Herder

Effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, hygiene, and the limited availability of skilled personnel due to unappealing working conditions are the drivers for replacing human labor by technology in agro-food production and processing. Robots have entered this sector but current robotic technology is not able to deal with the large variations in shape, size, and softness of agro-food products nor the variation in environmental conditions and tasks that are typical for the agro-food chain. The scientific challenge of the FlexCRAFT project is to equip robot technology with generic capabilities in active perception, world modeling, planning and control, and gripping and manipulation; capabilities needed to deal with the aforementioned conditions in a robust way.

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Also presented by Menno Veerman and Wouter Mol

Variability in incoming solar radiation due to broken clouds is a large challenge for grid operators that have to accommodate more and more solar energy production into the grid. Currently, weather forecast of variability are largely absent, due to the complex physics involved when sun light travels through a sky with clouds. With a newly designed instrument and computer simulations that can generate clouds that are nearly indistinguisable from reality, we aim to advance understanding to improve forecasts to facilitate the energy transition.

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The soil hosts a diversity of organisms. Since the soil is non-transparent, we developed time-lapse scanning imaging to assess live below ground level. As microbiologists, we use it to study fungal colonisation. It is currently being tested by the mushroom industry to monitor substrate quality. The system is basically a large field of view microscope, since we can image an area of 21 x 30 cm at a resolution of just 2.5 micrometer. This enables us to study single cell behaviour for many cells simultaneously. At the demo market you can see videos of a diversity of applications we use the system for. We also show a prototype of a water resistant time-lapse imaging scanner.

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Anyone who’s ever been in hospital will recognize this: nurses and doctors at your bedside doing regular checks on your vital signs. This is an intensive process for both hospital staff and patients. The FORSEE project is investigating a video monitoring system to detect a patient’s vital parameters, such as heart rate and breathing rate. A nurse then no longer needs to do this manually, and the monitoring is continuous. A major advantage is that any changes to the patient’s condition can be detected and acted upon immediately. At this demonstration, we showcase a real-time implementation of a heart rate measurement using a camera, which measures a visitor’s heart rate through miniscule changes in skin colour.  

The Virtual River Game enables players to collaboratively explore the complexity of river management. A key innovative element of the game is its all-physical game board – representing a river section with the river channel, flood plains and dykes (see photo) – to work with computational models that are also used in practice to model effects of interventions. By changing game pieces on the board, players apply interventions, which are automatically processed to input for the underlying models. Calculated effects are projected onto the game board and are shown on the screen by means of graphics, diagrams, and scores. Consequently, both real-life experts and relative laymen can ‘safely’ experiment with potential solutions, together: in the game, the hinterland will flood, at most.

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Despite having the potential to help human users in a multitude of fields, Social Robots lack the social skills to engage their users for long periods of time. Our research aims at designing models of human cognition and behaviour and mathematically formulate them in order to give social robots awareness about the mental states and social norms of the humans that their interact with, and enable them to act more socially and humanly. In our demonstration, you can see a poster that describes our motivation and methodology, as well as a video that shows a human-robot interaction that occurred during our experiments.

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Two NWO institutes found each other in the development of X-ray technology. SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research develops technology for space instruments. DIFFER, the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, conducts science for future energy sources and storage. Technology developed by SRON will be used, and made available to others, by DIFFER.   

SRON is developing superconducting Transition Edge Sensors (TES), which can detect individual X-ray photons. TES will for example be used in ESA’s upcoming Athena X-ray telescope. DIFFER is collaborating with SRON to apply X-ray technology in their research too. Researchers at DIFFER can use SRON’s technology to analyse the properties of materials and plasma.

At NWO TEKNOWLOGY, visitors get a chance to study the structure of a TES chip under a microscope and learn more about the (industrial) opportunities of material analyses using X-rays.

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In this presentation, our team from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and the neurotech company Phosphoenix will offer a glimpse of their developments in brain implants for the blind. They will also demonstrate, using Virtual Reality, how the future implant users may perceive the world, thanks to a combination of computer vision, artificial intelligence, and electrodes for brain stimulation.

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Momo Medical, as Winner of the Health Innovation Price 2023, has proven to have the trust of caregivers in the Netherlands. Momo BedSense, (developed in Delft by TU graduates) is a smart sensor connected with  a App that helps nurses to answer the question; who needs me? The app gives overview for nurses and enables them to restructure their work. For residents, this results in better nights, more personalised care  and less falls. Do you also want to know how a better night of sleep can help solve high workload, better nights and increase innovation-mindset?  Or do you want to know how caregiving with technology looks like? Curious about how we can improve sleep with data? Come and have a talk with us! 

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Other presenters: Matthijs Langelaar, Timo Kreule, Gijs van der Velden, Wei Ya

The demand for high-quality large-scale products increased significantly in the last few years. Products of considerable size are often heavy and cumbersome and require longer setups and larger tools to be produced. This leads to higher manufacturing costs and longer lead times. Wire-arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is one of the additive manufacturing technologies allowing the production of large 3D metallic components by depositing material layer by layer. Very large parts in the order of meters can be 3D printed with WAAM, which cannot be produced with any other additive technologies. Due to high deposition rate, the costs for WAAM are much lower than powder-based variants, making this technology very attractive for many industrial applications. At demo market you can see two demonstrators produced within Perspectief program AiM2XL “Additive Manufacturing of Extra Large Metal Components”.

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Multi-tuned resonators embedded inside the RF transmitters and receivers of an MRI system facilitate imaging of metabolism inside the human body. By taking advantage of the different frequency regimes of the magnetic fields inside an MRI, novel on-body solutions can be realized that ensure uniform fields (high field shimming), fast spatial encoding (imaging), and signal detection of nuclei other than 1H. At the demo market you can see mockups, shim systems and RF antenna components that realized metabolic MRI for the prediction of chemotherapy efficacy in patients with liver metastases.

The single layer water system is designed to gather sensor data for a research project aimed at identifying the longevity of the sensors. The system consists of a pump controlled by a microcontroller, which ensures a controlled flow of water. A flow sensor is incorporated to accurately measure the amount of water passed through the system and monitor the flow rate. Additionally, a pressure sensor is employed to measure water pressure at both the system's input and distribution nodes. The gathered sensor data is stored in a database, and real-time visualization of the sensor readings is provided through a dashboard on a website. This setup enables comprehensive monitoring and analysis of the sensor performance for research purposes.

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In the production of drinking water from groundwater, the major waste stream generated is iron sludge. With my Open Mind I explored new ways of removing iron from groundwater, which forms valuable end products. At the demo market I will showcase some possible examples of which alternatives might be interesting and what these novel techniques bring to the field of drinking water production. Because it does not only generate less waste, it can also reduce the energy consumption and increases the throughput of a treatment plant!

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With the possible emergence of drug-resistant variants, the efficacy of current medications, based on small molecules, to treat influenza may be lowered and become ineffective. We will show a novel concept of antiviral drug based on 2D nanosheets. The virus infectivity is inhibited by wrapping the virus particles with the 2D nanosheets through a multitude of interactions between the virus surface proteins and their receptors, known as multivalency. The surface of the nanosheets is decorated with receptors that resemble the natural receptors on the cell surface that recognize the surface protein of influenza viruses. With this approach, one can put the suitable receptors that bind stronger with the virus particles while providing control over the surface density of the receptors.

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This research proposes to develop a mycelium-based food that is rich in protein and dietary-fiber, can be produced from non-edible substrate like wood and has almost-zero waste. We test different environmental conditions to selectively convert lignin into mycelium while preserving cellulose as dietary-fiber and engineer the cultivation-reactor and nutrient-dosing strategies to avoid pesticide use. In this demonstration, you will see our new reactor design and the mycelium we cultivated. The research can contribute not only to alternative food provision but also to energy transition via heat production and to sustainable chemical production.

At NIOO we explore the potential of microorganisms to develop new technologies for improving water quality. One of these technologies is the innovative photogranular technology. Photogranules are dense, highly diverse spherical agglomerates of microalgae and bacteria, and these can cultivated in engineered ecosystems (photobioreactors) to remove carbon, nutrients and anthropogenic pollutants from wastewater and polluted surface water. The nutrient rich-microalgal biomass can be used as a raw material for the chemical and agriculture industry. At the demo market you can see the newly developed photogranular technology embedded within the NIOO’s decentralised sanitation vision. We will demonstrate how innovative eco-technologies, inspired by Nature, can perform the ecosystem service of cleaning polluted water while producing raw materials needed for the circular economy.

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Every year, finalists are selected to present their ideas at TEKNOWLOGY. A professional jury committee will select seven winners who will each receive a grant of 50,000 euros during the award ceremony at the main stage in the afternoon. Part of the application process is the admission of a video.

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Radio-frequency sensing is a technology that uses a wearable radio antenna to transmit low power radio waves into the human body. A proportion of these waves scatters back into the antenna, the amount of backscattering can be quantified and depends on the properties of the tissue close to the antenna. When these tissue properties change, for example during the pumping motion of the heart, the measured backscattering also changes. Therefore, radio-frequency sensing uniquely measures mechanical motion of the heart. In this presentation, we will give a short demonstration of our current prototype and explain its application for heart failure prevention. 

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Iron fuel is part of a circular process in which iron powder is used as a medium for energy storage. Iron combustion produces temperatures similar to natural gas, providing a sustainable alternative for this fossil fuel. The iron oxide that is formed during combustion can be regenerated back to iron powder by reacting it with green hydrogen. This way energy is stored in a cheap, safe and compact way.

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Also presented by: Anouk Bosman, Ids Lemmink, Si Huang, Ruobing Liu, Ziyang Wu, Peiheng Wang and Canan Aksoy.

People might not always realize, but chemistry is all around us and everyone is involved with it in some way on a daily basis. Think about the delicious meals we prepare, where we extract all kinds of different flavors and vitamins by for example cooking, grilling and mixing. Amazingly, the highly evolved human sensory organs do a great job at detecting the responsible molecules by smelling, tasting and looking at the food we have prepared. This also allows us to recognize for example burned or expired food, protecting our own health and that of others. But do we have the ability to detect all that can be harmful in the food that we consume? The short answer is no. However, by developing mini-labs that can be used on the farm, or even in our kitchen, we bring food safety testing to the palm of your hand.

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Flux One is a cutting-edge medical technology developed by Flux Robotics BV that uses a patented magnetic guidance system to guide medical instruments with unprecedented precision and efficiency through the body. The system features a robotic arm and an electromagnetic field, providing medical professionals with up to 2 mm precision, reducing the risk of complications and improving patient outcomes in the treatment of vascular diseases. At TEKNOWLOGY, Flux Robotics will showcase the Flux One system and demonstrate its potential to revolutionize the treatment of vascular diseases.

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We need to provide a growing world population with food; even though more and more people live in towns and cities, there are often water shortages, and the nutritional value of fruit and vegetables has been falling for decades. By growing plants in layers above each other and illuminating them with special LED lamps, fresh vegetables can be produced worldwide under all weather and climate conditions over the entire year. Within SKY HIGH program, researchers, together with lighting specialists, breeding companies, growers, horticulture technology companies, architects and food suppliers, will make this type of vertical agriculture cheaper and more energy-efficient. In addition, the aim is to use this type of vertical farming to produce vegetables and herbs with a better taste, shelf life and nutritional value while using extremely little water and nutrients and no pesticides.

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48. Three of the boards of technological disciplines that are currently in the making will also be available for questions at the demo market. These boards are:

• Civil engineering
• Electrical engineering
• Mechanical engineering

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