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In totaal ontvangt de TU Delft 17 Veni’s, 4 daarvan zijn bestemd voor onderzoekers aan de faculteit 3mE. De subsidies worden voor uiteenlopende onderzoeksprojecten gebruikt, van robots de intelligentie geven om vervormbare objecten te gebruiken tot een katheter die minimaal invasieve hartoperaties veiliger moet maken.

Spiropyrans are chemicals that change colour when you shine light on them – a useful property in many areas of medicine and technology. Now Georgy Filonenko and his colleague, Richard Janissen at the Faculty of Applied Science have discovered a new use for these so-called photochromic molecules - visualising stresses in solid polymers. Their research is published in the ‘Journal of the American Chemical Society.’

How did ancient humans learn to make tools? And can we apply that knowledge to help AI-based robots learn creative skills? Carlos Hernandez Corbato and Geeske Langejans are heading up the TU Delft part of the multi-national METATOOL project, which is a unique combination of archaeology, neuroscience and robotics.