Friday is here and so is TNWs weekly round-up oftechnews from our glorious home country.

This week saw advances in medtech, quantum breakthroughs, and calls to further boost the Dutch chip industry.

Our highlights have you covered, but wed also love to hear your thoughts on the local ecosystem.

This week in Dutch tech

In the meantime, lets get to the news.

However, a shortage of skilled laboratory professionals isputting increasing pressureon healthcare systems.

Utrecht-based Vitestro has a solution: a robotic blood drawing gadget.

robotic blood drawing device Vitestro

The startups devices use infrared, ultrasound, and AI to autonomously draw blood with submillimetre precision.

This week, Vitestro raised 20mn to bring its product to hospitals.

you might read our coveragehere.

Ioanna Lykiardopoulou

From automation software to fast-charging EV batteries, automakers are constantly testing their latest innovations in race cars.

That gives da Costa unique insights into our future vehicles.

Da Costa shared some of these insights in a Marchinterview with TNW.

Thats all for this weeks round-up.

Until next Friday, tot ziens!

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Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou

Ioanna is a writer at TNW.

With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies.

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