The Mobile World Congress is “once more the international meeting point for the digital industry where artificial intelligence has taken centre stage with applications across all sectors” and with a “key role for 4YFN, which on its tenth anniversary has cemented its position as the preeminent venue for the start-up ecosystem,” says Miquel Rey, the Eurecat technology centre’s Corporate Director of Business Development.
As part of the event, numerous applications have been on display in healthcare, such as the innovations presented at Eurecat’s booth with solutions combining artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, robotics and product innovation, and in sustainability and mobility featuring tools for predictive maintenance and more informed decision-making.
“Telemedicine, involving harnessing technology to prevent illnesses and enhance rehabilitation, and combining robotics with AI in the agri-food industry are two areas where Eurecat has presented technological innovations which have been warmly welcomed by attendees,” notes Elías Gargallo, Eurecat’s Head of Digital Business Development.
The basis of these innovations “is to sensorise a lot and get loads of data to make high-quality decisions at the extremely micro and macro levels of detail,” points out Miquel Rey. This means “you can be very flexible and much more responsive in managing infrastructures which are also very large such as in water.”
Ten years of 4 Years From Now
This year’s edition, which is the tenth anniversary of 4 Years From Now (4YFN), “has hatched the entire highly innovative and disruptive start-up ecosystem in Catalonia and showcased technology made here globally and in particular areas such as digital health, which has had a dedicated hall, sustainability, energy and finance,” comments Gemma Batlle, head of Start-up Ecosystem Business Development at Eurecat.
Eurecat has been at 4YFN with spin-offs Dipneo and Ephion Health and also via businesses, start-ups and scale-ups “which have shown the technology Eurecat has partnered” including “Ocean Ecostructures in sustainability and applying artificial intelligence in this area, Time is Brain in digital health, where we have drawn on our product development knowledge, and other firms such as Vottun and Bigle Legal,” she adds.
At the Mobile World Congress, Eurecat has presented 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.
It also showcased a headband, developed together with Time is Brain, to record brain activity in real time during an acute stroke and predict complications early on. It further unveiled innovations for unlocking micromobility and adapting agriculture to climate change in today’s scenario shaped by artificial intelligence and the connected revolution.
