The 10th AI & Big Data Congress has showcased the potential of generative artificial intelligence across a range of sectors and applications over the course of a conference which has additionally unpacked sustainability and the impact of its legal regulation in Europe from the standpoint of the businesses, organisations and individuals who use it [...]
María Jesús Montero, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, visited Eurecat’s facilities in Cerdanyola del Vallès today where she underscored the technology centre’s role in driving business innovation, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, to unlock their capacity for growth, internationalisation and opening up new markets. The First Deputy Prime Minister was [...]
Fostering a new holiday model to increase time spent at the destination and sponsoring technological solutions and management models to mitigate the impact of tourist activity on the environment are just two of the key points made today in Barcelona by the experts taking part in the TurisTIC Forum, the congress on innovation and [...]
Uptake of generative artificial intelligence has the potential to free up 60 to 70 percent of the time professionals currently spend on routine work in some areas according to studies of the technology’s impact which point to customer operations, marketing and sales, software engineering and R&D as examples which stand to benefit most from [...]
Artificial intelligence and robotics are driving the transformation of the textile industry as demonstrated during a special session on advanced manufacturing in this field. The event addressed new use cases of new technologies to enhance efficiency in the industry’s production system along with the changes being rolled out in aspects such as quality control. [...]
The Catalan company Enkitek with the technological support of Eurecat has designed a robot for monitoring fruit and vegetable crops in soilless agriculture, checking their quality and point of ripeness and harvesting them. The system adds to traditional labour operations by enhancing their productivity through the combination of various Industry 4.0 technologies such as [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has signed up to the Spanish Aerospace Technology Platform to help drive European R&D and innovation aeronautics projects with its technologies and innovations in autonomous aerial vehicles, metallic and composite materials, advanced manufacturing, printed electronics and artificial intelligence. Specifically, the technology centre is a member of the Spanish Aerospace Technology [...]
The Eurecat technology centre and Hospital Sant Joan de Déu have designed a desktop social robot to help paediatric palliative patients at home. It enables remote monitoring of the patient’s symptoms and streamlines communication between professionals and the family. The Jana robot consists of a structure built with 3D printing and a tablet connected [...]
This October, the second Symposium of the Centre for Omic Sciences, a joint unit of the Eurecat technology centre and Rovira i Virgili University (URV), will address the latest advances in understanding microbiota and their role in clinical studies in various fields of health, nutritional interventions and the environment with academic and industry experts. [...]
As part of the European Free4Lib project, the Eurecat technology centre has developed a demonstrator of a collaborative robotics solution for advanced dismantling and recycling of electric vehicle batteries. It is designed to improve the efficiency and safety of the process, cut operating costs, ensure the extraction of valuable materials from the batteries and [...]
