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Spider Silk: Inspired super-tough nanoarmours

Over the last few decades, the search for bio-inspired solutions has been widely accepted in many engineering and technological fields as the best way for optimizing and taking advantage of available resources. Nature over the ages has found its optimal solution for survival and our teams therefore looked at Nature for the design of device […]

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ARAM-AOCS: Development of innovative attitude and orbit control for low-cost and low-mass spacecrafts

The aim of the ARAM-AOCS project was to design an Attitude and Orbit Control system for a new class of small, affordable and easy-to-use satellites. The idea was proposed and supported by the Politecnico di Torino Electronics Department, that developed AraMiS, aiming to provide a modular satellite architecture in a very short period of time.

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SustHealth: Sustainable High Quality Healthcare

One of the most significant problems of today’s society is the unsustainable way of living. To guarantee a better future, people should change their habits and behavior in many fields, not neglecting the most difficult and complex issues. Healthcare structures are by definition very complex realities, since they include numerous services, various kinds of facilities

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CoSpaR: Components for Space Robotics

In the next decades, planetary exploration will play an important role in directing global technological development and at the same time will provide an extensive application and testing field for many innovative technologies. In support of exploration missions, new space systems must be developed requiring research on many new technologies involving robotics, automation, bio-engineering, artificial

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FUSE: Future Scenarios in Banking: new Services and sustainability

The banking sector has always been facing a big challenge: coping with continuous and fast-evolving financial services. Nowadays, financial institutions need to be not only promoters of innovation but also of sustainable services. The concept of sustainability is intended from the economic, environmental and social viewpoints. As a result, the financial service industry is ahead

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SME 2.0: “Software as a service” as a breakthrough change for Small and Medium Enterprises

The software market for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is today facing a technological breakthrough and growing importance of distribution methods represented by “Cloud Computing” and “Software as a Service” (SaaS). Existing technologies, software packages and vendor business models are apidly changing, and future market leadership will be based both on new software adoption models

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DeCoSe: Designing Collaborative Services to boost social innovation in Smart Cities

The aim of the DeCoSe project was to envisage collaborative service ideas to stimulate social innovation in the context. The project was developed in conjunction with European Research funded in the framework of the 7FR called Peripheria (in which Politecnico di Milano is involved as partner) whose aim was to conceive, develop and prototype digital services

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LET’ SET: Choose, Build, Experience

The tourism industry is undergoing a deep transformation due to new and different activities that people are willing to perform. This trend is called experiential tourism, since travellers are increasingly organizing their holidays looking for an occasion to try and discover something new, rather than a full week relax. Nevertheless, relax is not completely excluded

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