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The University of Sheffield’s partnership with Boeing is bearing fruit – it is building a “research factory” designed to “meet the future needs of aerospace and other high-value manufacturing industries”, dubbed the AMRC Factory 2050. Specifically, the university’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has secured funding for the new £43 million facility, which will house around 50 researchers and engineers, ...

The University of Oxford – Isis Innovation, to be precise – is highlighting its work with Sprayed Graded Electrodes – “lithium-ion batteries with graded electrodes and tailored porosity”. After considering thge current state of the market for lithium-ion batteries – they estimate three billion cells are produced per annum for use in consumer, industrial and automotive applications, with a total ...

Five Raspberry Pis allow Erica the cyber-rhino to interact with passers by using cameras, LEDs, phones, and artificial intelligence algorithms. The creation of the University of Southampton’s Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) department, Erica is part of Go Rhinos, a public art event around Southampton to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Marwell Zoo. “Erica’s team has made it possible for ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol, supported by Nokia Siemens Networks, are working on the design and optimisation of novel 3D antenna arrays. They are investigating new ways of delivering a 1000x capacity boost by 2020 in the light of today’s cellular networks struggling to meet the capacity demands generated by smartphones. “Large capacity gains can be achieved by deploying ...

Professor Steve Furber has been announced as a 2013 recipient of IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Pioneer Award, which is designed to “recognise and honour the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry”. He is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science. The ...

There’s an interesting piece on the University of Oxford science blog, about a team of researchers at the Department of Engineering Science and The Oxford Martin School and their prototype electric vehicle, dubbed PEGGIE. At an Eco-marathon Europe competition in Rotterdam recently – a showcase for ultra energy-efficient vehicles built by student teams – the Oxford team won the Technical ...

A large international research team, led by Dr Roman Gorbachev from The University of Manchester, have found that when graphene is placed on top of insulating boron nitride – or ‘white graphene’ – the electronic properties of graphene change dramatically, revealing a pattern resembling a butterfly. The pattern is referred to as the elusive Hofstadter butterfly that has been known ...

ARM, Imagination, Altera, Microsoft Research and Freescale are the companies collaborating with a group of UK universities to work on next generation computing systems. The group of universities comprises Southampton, Manchester and Newcastle and Imperial College London. PRiME is the name for the project that is looking at the use of “many-core processing” – computer systems with 100s of microprocessors. ...

According to data compiled by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), the University of Sheffield has overtaken the University of Cambridge for engineering research income. The figures shows that for 2011/12 the University of Sheffield’s engineering research income of £46M exceeded that of Cambridge by almost 10 percent. “Research income is an important measure of excellence as it shows the ...

The University of Surrey has revealed the design for its 5G mobile technology research centre. The architects Scott Tallon Walker won the competition to create the 5G Innovation Centre, which will be focussed on 5G networking. The university states: It will mean that the university campus becomes the first place in the world to test 5G technology by using lampposts ...