CrowdScan, a spin-off from imec and the University of Antwerp, has developed a system that measures the density of a crowd in real-time using a wireless sensor network.

A team of engineers at the University of Antwerp in The Netherlands has developed a 3D-printed robotic arm that can act as a sign language translator for deaf people. Sign language interpreters are often in short supply, and so this research team set out to develop a low cost automated system that can translate text into sign language. “A deaf person who needs to appear in court, a deaf person following a lesson in a classroom somewher...

An EU-funded partnership with multidisciplinary expertise has established a virtual institute that trained during the period 2011-2015 the next generation of scientists in neuroelectronics, a field that integrates advances from (nano)technology with applications in neuroscience. The brain is composed by billions of neurons, which exchange signals with each other by tiny electrical currents and voltages.