University Electronics

SETsquared is the University of Bristol’s incubator and it has announced the first of its Enterprise Zone companies to successfully close a multi-million dollar funding round. The company? Blu Wireless Technology. The amount? £2 million, through angel investors and funding acceleration groups. Bristol University writes: Blu Wireless will use the money to drive further growth and double its staff numbers ...

University of Leeds researchers are working on a robotic device to helps children to practise and improve their hand coordination. It involves a computer game that is designed to help writing and uses haptic technology to guide the child’s hand. The research has been led by Professor Mark Mon-Williams (pictured top) and Dr Liam Hill at the University of Leeds, ...

Bristol University is claiming a breakthrough in cryptography that could result in more secure computing. It is collaborating with Aarhus University, of Denmark, in developing a protocol called SPDZ (as in “speedz”) that implements a theoretical idea called “Multi-Party Computation”, performing computations on secret data. According to Bristol, the idea is to “enable two or more people to compute any ...

Manchester. City of Graphene. It would be a good title to have, not least because of the inward investment, it seems… The University of Manchester is boasting that it has attracted a “major graphene manufacturer” to the city – Bluestone Global Tech was apparently attracted by the University’s graphene expertise and has decided to locate there for its European production ...

A project at Bristol University is looking to support free, global access to a miniature quantum processor chip via the Internet. Professor Jeremy O’Brien has launched “Qcloud” with the goal to make the resources for quantum computing available for everybody, to “open up the possibilities of quantum computing to the next generation of engineers, mathematicians, scientists and entrepreneurs”. From Friday ...

The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) is highlighting an EPSRC award of a £3.3m grant to the University of Southampton for the development and manufacture of advanced composite materials in the area of solid-state batteries. The grant will be managed by the Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University, Professor Brian Hayden, who is also a founder and Chief Scientific ...

West Wittering beach in Sussex is set for field trials conducted by experts in robotics at University of Surrey. They are looking to test a range of problem surfaces that are apparently similar to those that would be faced by small planetary rovers in space. Academics and researchers from the University of Surrey’s Surrey Space Centre will be testing a prototype ...

Bristol University is highlighting the success of its new mentoring scheme for engineering and computer science undergraduates. Mentors have been recruited from 70 companies to help guide 600 new first year students, offering a possible early step on the careers ladder. The university’s Industrial Mentoring Scheme was launched last year by the Industrial Liaison Office in the Faculty of Engineering. ...

A portable eye examination kit – the Peek – has been created by scientists at the University of St Andrews, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. It’s currently being tested in Kenya as a potential tool to revolutionise the prevention of blindness in low-income countries, says the university. The – a smartphone ...

Realising Opportunities, led by Newcastle University, is a national scheme to help under-represented groups get into top universities, generally encouraging social mobility. The University of Sheffield, Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Sussex are the latest institutions to join the programme. As part of the scheme, reports Sheffield University, year 12 and 13 students access events, activities and ...