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KLM Engineering & Maintenance, Mainblades and KPN won this year's Dutch Applied AI Award. The award jury particularly praised the linking of drones, communication technology and Artificial Intelligence in this partnership.

Using AI, it is possible to better predict warm weather. For this, atmospheric scientist Chiem van Straaten developed a method that learns from wrong weather predictions and leads to more reliable information.

To kick-start the new Research Priority Area (RPA) of the Faculty of Science in "Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Molecules and Materials" (AI4SMM), four projects have just been launched. 

Three researchers from VU Amsterdam are starting a pilot with a reading robot for primary school students. They want to test whether robots can help increase children's reading skills.

Natural Language Processing—the subfield of computer science concerned with giving computers the ability to ‘understand’ and ‘generate’ human language—has taken a huge flight in the past decade.