Press Notes

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Artificial intelligence featured at MWC with groundbreaking applications for sectors including healthcare and sustainability

2024-03-13T11:22:52+01:00February 23rd, 2024|Fires, ICT, Press Notes|

Cybersecurity-related technologies and virtual reality tied to the user experience, smart cities and digital twins will be prominent at the forthcoming Mobile World Congress, where artificial intelligence will take centre stage with applications in various sectors, especially in health and nutrition, sustainability and industry. Eugenia Fuenmayor, scientific director of Eurecat’s Digital Area, says that [...]

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 [...]

Artificial intelligence technologies can enhance the learning process and help transform the educational model

2024-03-13T11:16:44+01:00February 16th, 2024|ICT, Press Notes|

Artificial intelligence and data technologies have huge potential to help transform the educational model and enhance the teaching and learning process while also ensuring that Catalan is more widely used online and in everyday life in society. This is the conclusion of the ‘White Paper on Artificial Intelligence applied to Education and to the [...]

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 [...]

Eurecat unveils battery, hydrogen, robotics, new materials and plastronics technologies for sustainable mobility at eMobility World Congress

2024-03-13T11:05:54+01:00February 12th, 2024|Aeronautical, Automotive, Energy, Fires, Press Notes, Railway|

At the eMobility Expo World Congress, which brings together the European mobility industry from 13-15 February in Valencia, the Eurecat technology centre is to unveil its latest-generation technologies and solutions in batteries and electrification, hydrogen, robotics, new lightweight materials, plastronics and artificial intelligence to unlock sustainable mobility. “Eurecat will bring outstanding innovations to businesses to [...]

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 [...]

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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