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  • Care robots for a normal life

    Claire Huijnen’s PhD research into social robots in healthcare features in a documentary on Dutch TV tonight. Thanks to her help, social robot KASPAR can help autistic children. In 'Scenarios for a normal life' (part of Autism Week on NPO2) you can see how eight-year-old Jonathan from Limburg benefits...
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  • Prestigious ZonMw grant

    The ‘E-manager Chronic Diseases’ project, a collaboration between CAPHRI, TNO, NIVEL and the University of Twente, was awarded a prestigious grant within the Innovative Medical Devices Initiative (IMDI) program of ZonMw earlier this month.
  • The Lancet publication on low back pain

    Almost everyone will have low back pain at some point in their lives. It can affect anyone at any age, and it is increasing – disability due to back pain has risen by more than 50% since 1990.
    Low back pain
  • Professor Onno van Schayck in NOS News on smoke reducing cook stove in India

    Professor Onno van Schayck (CAPHRI/FHML) was interviewed last week by the Dutch national news channel NOS about the Exhale project in the Health in Slums programme that he co-initiated. In India people often cook indoors using firewood and that is damaging to their health. Each year half a million...
    Prof. Onno van Schayck's smoke reducing cooking stove for India