Giorgio Metta, the “father” of iCub, will be the new Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
He was one of the protagonists of MFR19, he is just over a meter tall and has the features of a 4-year-old boy: he is iCUB and soon he will have a new "father", the engineer Giorgio Metta who will take on the direction of the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa from January 2020.
CNR and ENEA research study: Combating cancer with substances contained in grape seeds:
Grape berries capable of blocking the growth of cancer cells: this is what has been shown by some research conducted by the National Research Council (CNR), by ENEA and from the University Federico II of Naples to combat one of the most aggressive and drug-resistant tumors, masotelioma.
3D-Printed Bulletproof Plastic is a reality
Researchers 3D-Printed Plastic Cubes With Complex Patterns That Make them Bulletproof The technology continues to evolve, but 3D printing is still mostly... Read More
XR4all, the European call for funding proposals for virtual reality projects
A European project that aims to create a a real "XR Community" as a network to bring together developers and financiers: here's XR4all, an initiative co-financed by Horizon 2020: find out the four deadline dates!
GERMAN CIRCUS USES HOLOGRAMS INSTEAD OF LIVE ANIMALS
IN THIS CIRCUS, A Cruelty-Free Magical Experience IS REAL Entertaining the crowds since 1976, Circus Roncalli has done something unimaginable – they... Read More
Brenda Mboya’s challenge: Create a technological development network on the African continent
Spreading technological education among young Africans to create a new generation of talents able to compete with the rest of the world: the ambitious project by Brenda Mboya, one of the protagonists of the # MFR19 Opening Conference
Hortextreme: ENEA’s vertical spatial garden designed for Mars missions
Is it possible to grow vegetables on board a spaceship? According to ENEA yes: in # MFR19 was presented Hortextreme, the first vertical vegetable garden that will allow to cultivate some vegetables, such as red cabbage, pink lentil and radicchio, in "vehicles" directed on Space.
3D Aerospace, the project that allows patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to explore the outside world
A remotely controlled drone, to allow patients with ALS to look at distant places of the world with their own eyes, such as the Grand Canyon or the Seine. It is a project of the Sardinian startup 3D Aerospazio that puts technologies at the service of people suffering from serious pathologies such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis to improve their quality of life.
The space city of Valentina Sumini that has conquered NASA and will make Mars habitable for humans
The ambitious project by Valentina Sumini, researcher at MIT in Boston and collaborator of NASA, who wants to give life to a real city on Mars to make human settlement on the Red Planet concretely possible.
Vaia, the company that transforms the wood from storm-felled fir and larch trees into loudspeakers
"Regenerated" loudspeakers, created by fir and larch wood felled during the devastating storm that struck Trentino Alto Adige in 2018: thus the first Vaia startup product was born, initiated by Federico Stefani with the support of two friends, Paolo and Giuseppe.
