A haptic robot copies the movements of your hand. Force feedback can make you feel what the robot is doing. A Swiss watchmaker follows the developments with interest.
Name: Rafael Carmona Benitez (30)
Nationality: Mexican
Supervisor: Professor Gabriel Lodewijks (faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering)
Subject: Optimal routes for air transport systems
Thesis defense: In 15 months
“Maybe my thesis will inspire airline companies to drop prices so I can fly cheaply from Amsterdam to my home town of Mexico City,” Benitez says, laughing.
“I’m not a designer, but I work in a designer’s community,” Dr Anna Fenko (Moscow, 1967) says. She has just finished her PhD at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering.
Time is now and speed is key, said Cees de Bont, dean of IDE and chairman of D-Incert, during a conference on electric vehicles (EVs). If the Netherlands want to play a key role in the development and introduction of EVs, ‘we must act in the coming two to three years’.
’An expected nuclear renaissance has failed to materialize as plans for new plants are scrapped or delayed,’ reports the Technology Review. ‘What happened?’
Layers of quantum dots can be used as solar cells. Better connections between the dots are needed however to boost the efficiency.
Squeezing, rolling, wiggling – the things people do when they are stressed. Now here’s a pen that not only knows when people are stressed but also relaxes them.
‘Shifting the focus of mayor investments into alternative energy sources should not be postponed to times when the oil and gas reserves are depleted.
Delta and Delft Integraal often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to furniture that reshapes?
