University Electronics

Students at the University of Southampton have developed a low cost robot for swarm intelligence research. "The clever issue is using surface mount motors from mobile phone vibrators so the whole thing can be made on a standard production line," academic Klaus-Peter Zauner told Electronics Weekly.

Today is the 60th birthday of 'Baby', the University of Manchester experimental computer some claim to be the first stored programme digital computer.

The University of Nottingham develops a technique to grow bulk cubic GaN, avoiding the natural hexagonal structure, and has extended its work to AlGaN.

The University of Manchester has a graphene-based transparent conductor for LCDs that out-performs ITO (indium tin oxide), and could cost less.

Mobius Microsystems of Sunnyvale, California, a spin-out from the University of Michigan in 2004, announces a CMOS IC which generates its own frequencies on-chip at the Globalpress Summit Conference in San Francisco.

Tufts University in Massachusetts is working on a soft-bodied robot based on a caterpillar: the tobacco hornworm, manduca sexta.

Engineers at the University of Washington add an LED array into a flexible contact lens, ultimately aiming at in-eye head-up displays

University College London spin-out Senceive is developing number crunching nodes for its wireless sensor networks. “There are applications which need very high performance processing,” CEO Matthew Britton told EW. “For example, with railway points you need to record samples very fast.” The firm designs and makes networks of self-powered wireless sensors. For example, it is supplying arrays of inclinometers to allow ...

University of Southampton spin-out Stratophase has delivered laboratory equipment to a German University.

The University of Surrey is to lead a five year £5m Government funded study into silicon photonics