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Many great discoveries and inventions spring from basic research. That’s particularly true for medicine, but also for many other research areas.

Say hello to the robot called Bifrost. With the help of AI technology, it uses its tactile capabilities to manipulate soft and pliable objects to order. Bifrost is in fact a world-beater.

Have you been bitten by the running bug? If so, perhaps you’ve been asking yourself this very question. Well, we have the answer!

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) has commissioned a team of SINTEF researchers to measure the respective health impacts of walking, cycling and the use of e-scooters to get to work.

Research indicates that workplaces which encourage a healthy integration between their employees’ work and personal lives have a happier and better performing workforce.

Only one in three Norwegian municipalities monitors accessibility in its schools. The Norwegian Association for the Disabled is demanding urgent action.

If only techno-optimists get to test AI tools, the results simply aren’t good enough. This is where Tesla made a big mistake – a lesson that the health sector will do well to learn.

The warning couldn’t be clearer. Standard plastic grocery bags are useful when we’re out shopping, but don’t use them to store food. So says research scientist Lisbet Sørensen at SINTEF.

For AI to help us solve the world’s major challenges, we need to invest in other types of machine learning, not only language models like ChatGPT.