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Reducing employer costs depends on low-income earners

Will reducing Belgian employer social security taxes—championed by the last two governments as a cure-all for the economy—really be effective? Only if it focuses on low-income earners, say Drs Muriel Dejemeppe and Bruno Van der Linden, economists at the UCL Economic and Social Research Institute...
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Using electricity to treat the effects of CVA

Most people who survive a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) suffer impaired motor skills. UCL researchers may have found a way to boost their ability to relearn them.  Like all our organs, our brain is supplied blood by arteries. If one of them ruptures or is blocked, neurons in the area...
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Robots that help doctors

Medical robotics and related technologies are booming. At UCL, engineers and doctors are working together to meet the technical, human, ethical and financial challenges of future medical practice. Until recently, medical and surgical robotics was the stuff of science fiction. Today it’s...
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Disasters: robots to the rescue

Imagine an earthquake or nuclear accident disaster area where it’s impossible to send in rescuers without putting their lives at risk. At UCL, Nicolas Van der Noot is looking to robots to do the job. In science fiction films robots can move like humans, but that’s a far cry from the reality...
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From the lab to the hospital: medical robotics, a team...

Exoskeletons, microsurgery robots, robotic prostheses—robotics and the medical sector have never complemented each other so well. In 2014, UCL created Louvain Bionics, a centre of expertise unique in Europe that aims to drive medical robotics research. It’s a key challenge for the future that’s...
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