Robotics research in the UK has been given a major boost with the launch of an EPSRC-funded UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS Network). The aim of the network is to bring together robotics R&D activities in UK universities and to set up industry collaborations that hopefully will result in commercial products. Behind the a high-profile launch at the Science ...
Today, at the Imec Technology Forum, Imec and Holst Centre are demonstrating what they describe as the most advanced smart garment to date. The smart T-shirt measures a highly accurate electrocardiogram (ECG), recognises activity and calculates energy expenditure in an unobtrusive way, according to Imec. “Smart garments have the ability to tackle a vast range of applications from fitness tracking ...
Energy scavenging has found a new source of of power – ambient Wi-Fi signals. A PhD student at Washington University in Seattle, Vamsi Talla, scavenged energy from Wi-Fi signals and used it to power a temperature sensor. When stored in a capacitor the power was sufficient to allow a surveillance camera to take a picture every 35 minutes. For the ...
Nanotech researchers from around the world will gather at Birmingham City University’s City Centre Campus next month for a two-day conference. Called “Advances in nanotechnology 2015“, the conference and workshops will discuss the manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale in medicine and healthcare, nanomechanics and industrial applications of graphene. Speakers at the event on June 9th ...
FlexEnable has partnered with organic electronic materials supplier Merck to bring plastic LCDs to market. The firms have developed a plastic LCD which is free of glass and uses organic transistors on a plastic sheet. FlexEnable claims this is the first plastic LCD with active-matrix in-plane switching (IPS). It uses the Cambridge-based firm’s OTFT array as well as liquid crystal ...
NeuDrive, the bidding to commercial organic electronics production technology in the UK, has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of organic semiconducting material patents and the FlexOS trade mark from CPI Innovation Services (CPIIS), the commercial arm of the government-funded Centre for Process Innovation (CPI). As part of the deal NeuDrive has taken licences relating to organic thin-film transistor technology ...
Scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a technique to create high power pulsed lasers used in telecommunications and metrology which are potentially more energy efficient. The new method developed by researchers from the University’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) works on a fundamentally different principle to existing pulsed lasers. Any application that requires optical pulses typically needs waveforms of ...
IBM has used phase change memory to build network of 913 neurons with 165,000 inter-connections, reports the MIT Technology Review.
A way of feeling a holographic image using haptic feedback has been developed at Bristol University.
Government funded defence research agency, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), is running a £1m research competition inviting proposals from UK-based companies for technology which will offer affordable space systems for communications and surveillance. The aim of the government-funded research will be to develop technologies in the UK that could provide “a step increase in capability or a substantial ...
