Four projects aimed at increasing efficiency in the energy and production technology sectors have been awarded funding totalling €890,000. The Research and Innovation Ministry announced the funding at an event held in collaboration with government agency Xjenza Malta. The ‘AIRSAVE’ project, which uses AI to reduce industrial energy consumption and
The first robotic surgery in the private sector was recently carried out, following a €3.2 million investment in the system by Saint James Hospital. A patient’s prostate was removed by four arms, instead of two, operated via a joystick-controlled console from a booth – and the intervention was a success, with robotic procedures considered the “gold
There is a word that is sometimes used in economics of well-being, which normally refers to the process of removing the protective casing of a new gadget to see what is inside. That word is ‘deshrouding’ and, in well-being affairs, it refers to examining the evidence to see how people are really doing. This is what we have been entrusted to do by the
