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Eurecat trials solutions tapping printed electronics to monitor health and detect pollutants in water

2024-03-13T11:37:09+01:00March 7th, 2024|Fires, Functional Printing, Press Notes|

This week at LOPEC, the preeminent event in printed electronics held in Munich, the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing innovative solutions for medical care, prevention and health monitoring, overseeing water quality and detecting pollutants, and for the new generation of cars with a prototype which has won the best demonstrator award presented at the [...]

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VitiGEOSS smart platform drives sustainability in vineyard management

2024-03-13T11:33:06+01:00February 29th, 2024|Fires, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The European VitiGEOSS project has developed an innovative smart platform featuring digital tools for precision viticulture which drive more sustainable vineyard management and the crop’s resilience to climate change which the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona. “We have developed a single platform which farmers and other service [...]

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Eurecat trials assistive robot which can hold a conversation, provide personalised care and guide an exercise routine

2024-03-13T11:29:56+01:00February 27th, 2024|Autonomous and professional robotics, E-Health, Fires, Health, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is this week showcasing at the Mobile World Congress an assistive robot which helps people at home with a range of daily tasks and can hold a conversation and offer personalised care to users based on monitoring their state of health or mood, furnishing for example instructions for an exercise [...]

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MWC showcases headband to record brain activity during acute stroke and predict complications

2024-03-13T11:25:04+01:00February 26th, 2024|Fires, Health, Innovation and product development, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is presenting this week at the Mobile World Congress a headband developed together with Time is Brain to record brain activity in real time during an acute stroke and predict complications early on. The innovation is part of the BraiN20® portable medical device which provides the patient with “quicker access [...]

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New biodegradable bioplastics from agri-food waste for high added-value medical applications

2024-03-13T11:20:04+01:00February 22nd, 2024|Health, Plastic material, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The PHASAL project is fashioning new biodegradable bioplastics from agri-food waste for medical applications such as transdermal patches and suture kits which will minimise their environmental impact. Specifically, it is to develop new grades of biodegradable plastics (PHA) obtained from the recovery of organic waste, thus affording them advanced processability and biocompatibility properties, which [...]

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eMobility World Congress showcases ultra-thin smart interface for interacting with the new generation of cars

2024-03-13T11:09:12+01:00February 14th, 2024|Automotive, Fires, Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has developed a smart plastic surface just 3 millimetres thick which has an interface that allows users to interact and communicate with a machine, software or intuitive system with built-in LED lighting and capacitive sensors which is expected to be embedded in the central electronic control system of the new generation [...]

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Eurecat takes part in European consortium analysing online manipulation threats to combat disinformation

2024-02-20T12:16:16+01:00February 6th, 2024|IT-Security, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the European Athena project which is to develop tools to analyse and combat disinformation and misinformation on the Internet, seen by the World Economic Forum as the greatest global risk over the next two years. The Athena (An exposition on THe forEign informatioN mAnipulation and interference) project is [...]

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New tool optimises acoustics in virtual reality to help people with hearing difficulties join in

2024-02-20T12:14:40+01:00February 1st, 2024|Audiovisual Technologies, Cultural and Creative Industries, Press Notes|

This week at the ISE trade fair in Barcelona, the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing a tool for optimising acoustics in virtual reality and audiovisual production which enhances understanding in virtual environments and helps people with hearing difficulties to take part by tapping deep learning algorithms and binaural audio. The innovation, which has been developed [...]

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Eurecat trials an immersive digital reading experience with 3D special effects and music creations

2024-02-20T12:12:50+01:00January 30th, 2024|Audiovisual Technologies, Cultural and Creative Industries, Press Notes|

At ISE 2024, the leading international trade fair for the audiovisual and integrated systems industry, the Eurecat technology centre is presenting a new 3D sound system for audio books which delivers an immersive digital reading experience through narratives enhanced with 3D special effects and music creations. These new media technologies are applied in an innovative [...]

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Novel lightweight materials to reduce weight of chassis components of Electric Vehicles by 40%

2024-02-08T14:16:09+01:00January 29th, 2024|Automotive, Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

Researchers at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the technological centre Eurecat, proposed novel material solutions based on high-strength steels, composites and hybrid materials with the objective to reduce the weight of electric car chassis components by 40%. The research was conducted as part [...]

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