'Invent a Chip 2018' school competitionIdeas wanted for the jobs of the day after tomorrow

How will digitalization, robotics and artificial intelligence change people's everyday lives? How and what will the next generation work on? The new round of the 'Invent a Chip' school competition organized by the BMBF and the VDE is looking into these questions.

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The Invent-a-Chip prizewinners Tilmann Bruns, Fabian Eich and Justus Kaufmann with the innovative patient stretcher they have developed
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... was awarded by the jury to Tilmann Bruns (15), Fabian Eich (16) and Justus Kaufmann (16) from Gymnasium Lindlar. The students have developed an innovative ambulance stretcher for fast and gentle transportation in an ambulance. "We are presenting an ambulance model with a movable stretcher that prevents the patient from slipping during the journey. When the ambulance accelerates or brakes, on slopes and in bends, the stretcher is tilted in such a way that no horizontal acceleration acts on the patient," is how the team describes its concept.

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