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Living Machines was a week long event that took place at the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum in London, bringing together academics to showcase the latest advances in their field, discuss the social implications and debate the future of artificial intelligence. The event was organised by the EU-funded Convergent Science Network (csnetwork.eu) and was led in the UK ...

IBM will be one of the first University of Exeter Strategic Corporate Partners, the university has announced. Projects supported by the partnership, it says, include initiatives addressing water management, climate change, sustainability and health. Other areas of collaboration include smart metering, analytics and the management of big data. “Solving global challenges is only possible through meaningful collaboration and I am ...

The University of Surrey is reporting on a development that “opens the door for more efficient, cost-effective and larger scale solar power generation”. Professor Ravi Silva, of the university’s Advanced Technology Institute has identified the range of combinations of organic and inorganic materials that will underpin new 4th generation solar cell technology. According to its report (“New technology to enable ...

The University of Manchester is highlighting a review written for Nature, discussing how layered materials can be split into isolated atomic planes and then reassembled back in an intelligently-chosen sequence. Inspired by the promise of graphene, the idea is to create new kinds of materials and structures that do not exist in nature. The authors? None other than Nobel Laureate ...

The University of Glasgow has been received a £3m share of £85m new government funding for equipment to support pioneering research to improve the efficiency of electronic and optical components. This research, states the university, includes developing advanced processes on multiple commercial micro- and nano-fabrication tools manufactured in the UK by Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology that can be transferred directly ...

Researchers at the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IPaQS) at Heriot-Watt University have been using ultrashort pulses of laser light to make ‘photonic lanterns’ – optical circuits that could revolutionise how telescopes are used to observe the universe. Dr Robert Thomson, an expert in ultrafast laser inscription at Heriot-Watt’s Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IPaQS), has developed a ...

The University of Liverpool and the University of Manchester have jointly secured £3.3m of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)  to support the development of advanced electrochemical energy storage devices for grid scale applications. As with Edinburgh universities and their £6m funding for robotics research, which we blogged yesterday, it is part of the Government’s strategy ...

A survey has listed the SETsquared incubator as the best in Europe, alongside jointly-placed NDRC LaunchPad in the Republic of Ireland, and fourth most successful in the world. The University Business Incubator (UBI) Index recoreded that SETsquared has “given birth” to 1,000 high-tech start-ups since its inception 10 years ago, raising £34m in investment in 2013 for the companies within ...

Surrey University’s experience with space research is well known (for example, there is its Surrey Space Centre (SSC), in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS), and the work of Surrey Satellite). Well, the university is now pioneering an MBA programme focused on the needs of the space industry. According to the university, as of 2010/2011, the UK space ...

The newly announced National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems, at the University of Leeds, is a £4.3 million national facility for robot design and construction. It is backed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part of a government drive to improve Britain’s international competitiveness in robotics. According to Leeds, it will give researchers – and commercial ...