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£16M Boost for UK Robotics
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14 May 2012 |
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Cambridge and Cranfield Universities are at the heart of a £16 million government initiative to boost the use of robotics in UK industry. The research project is a government-industry-academic partnership designed to develop smart machines that think for themselves.
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Professor Bolton gives 52nd Rankine Lecture
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9 May 2012 |
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Professor Malcolm Bolton, Head of the Geotechnical and Environmental Group in the Department of Engineering, delivered the 52nd Rankine Lecture at Imperial College on "Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering"
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Undergraduates collaborate with Jaguar Land Rover
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3 May 2012 |
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A group of engineering undergraduates are nearing completion of their final-year projects in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover. The projects began in October 2011 and will come to a conclusion with the submission of final reports at the end of this month. The students, their supervisors and Jaguar Land Rover engineers recently met at the JLR Product Engineering Centre in Warwickshire.
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Department of Engineering researchers start work on Phase 2 of the India-UK Advanced Technology Centre
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1 May 2012 |
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Researchers at Cambridge University Engineering Design Centre are playing a key role in the recently announced Phase 2 of the India-UK Advanced Technology Centre; the largest India-UK ICT research collaboration, which employs 200 scientists in both countries, announced by the UK's Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts, during a meeting with Indian Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh in London.
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Building our capacity to endure
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25 April 2012 |
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In its inaugural list of the top 50 most influential people for sustainability in the UK, Building Design magazine has listed three Cambridge academics. The range of work they do gives us an overview of just how broad the meaning of sustainability is.
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Breathing new life into building ventilation design
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16 April 2012 |
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Breathing Buildings was formed as a spin-out company from the University of Cambridge in 2006, following the discovery and development of the proprietary low energy e-stack mixing ventilation system as part of a major research programme at the BP Institute, through the Cambridge-MIT Institute. Alumnus Dr Shaun Fitzgerald is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Breathing Buildings.
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Use a laser, save a tree
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12 April 2012 |
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Laser un-printers that can remove toner from scrap paper so that it can be used again may be coming to an office near you in the future, results from a new Cambridge study show.
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Growing bones with Lego
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29 March 2012 |
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A video produced for Google Science Fair shows how researchers at Cambridge making synthetic bone have turned to legendary children’s toy Lego for a helping hand.
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Metail: translating cutting edge research into commercial success
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15 March 2012 |
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A start-up company established by a team including several Department of Engineering alumni is on track to revolutionise the world of fashion. Metail (www.metail.co.uk) is a London- and Cambridge-based company that has developed cutting-edge technology intended to help shoppers buy clothes online.
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Engineering research meets clinical medicine
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5 March 2012 |
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The Engineering for Clinical Practice initiative brings together engineers and clinicians with the aim of improving clinical tools by the application of engineering research, techniques and innovation to the field of clinical medicine.
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