Strike-f(x), the intelligent boxing bag is available at Sportcentrum VU (location Uilenstede). The intelligent boxing bag will be there for a three months trial and testing period. The team of Strike-f(x) will thus gather data to improve the user friendliness of the system as a whole. The Sportcentrum VU is the launching partner of Strike-f(x) […]
NewsThe Meta-grip is a functional strength assessment tool for monitoring hand and fingertip health and performance in climbers. Check out their promo.
NewsFindest and Scitodate have been awarded Mkb-innovatiestimulering Regio en Topsectoren (MIT) to jointly develop JARVLIS, an AI engine for Scientific Natural Language Inference. Two companies will be working together to develop and commercialize algorithms to extract scientific facts from body of scientific literature. Findest and Scitodate are both D-Lab alumni and are now based in Amsterdam […]
NewsScitodate, former D-Lab project, has been awarded the Take-off Phase 2 by NWO, a loan for startups to further develop their business. Scitodate is a Big Data and AI company, specialized in making scientific research easy to find and understand.Leading manufacturers of scientific research equipment use Sciotdate technology (Market Landscape) to map out their market and […]
NewsDemonstrator Lab projects Meta-grip (part of Climb-f(x)) and Fitsurance received a Take-off grant phase 1 – an NWO fund that allows researchers from scientific disciplines to further develop their innovative idea, bringing them closer to market.The Meta-grip is a functional strength assessment tool for monitoring hand and fingertip health and performance in climbers. Fitsurance measures […]
NewsSeveral Demonstrator Lab projects have received an award for a feasibility study or early phase trajectory within the NWO TTW Take-off program. The Meta-grip, a tool for climbers, and Fitsurance, with tailor-made lifestyle advice on physical exercise and nutrition, are able to do a feasibility study withTake-off grant phase I. Scitodate, a Big Data and […]
NewsDemonstrator Lab project GlucoEasy wins NWO Open Mind funding of € 50,000. The Open Mind grants are awarded by NWO to technologies with a surprisingly societal application. The grants were awarded during Teknowlogy, NWO’s innovation congress. NWO awards five Open Mind grants of 50,000 for socially relevant research outside the beaten track.
NewsMeaningful social contact is the slogan of Niluk. Elena Köstler and her team are developing a mobile app to combat loneliness among young adults. They want to bring people together offline via an online platform.This concept made the SAM team, enter the Startup in Residence Programme. SIR connects startups and scale-ups with key social challenges […]
NewsNWO Physics Valorisation Prize 2018 goes to VU professor Davide Iannuzzi The tenth NWO Physics Valorisation Prize will go to Prof. Davide Iannuzzi, professor of Experimental Physics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). He has won the prize “on account of the valorisation of this own research and the attention he gives to facilitating valorisation by […]
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