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Agri-tech concept showing rows of plants and drones carrying packages

AgriFoRwArdS Cohort 2 – meet the next generation of experts in agri-food robotics

09 Dec 2024

The world's first EPSRC CDT in Agri-Food Robotics is developing a new generation of highly skilled researchers and leaders in robotics and autonomous systems with interdisciplinary expertise.

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An audience with Alex Kendall: The Road to Embodied AI

05 Dec 2024

Alumnus Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve, returned to Cambridge recently to give a lecture as part of the Department of Engineering’s 150th anniversary celebrations.

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Quicker, cheaper quality control of safety-critical metal components

04 Dec 2024

By studying how light reflects from the surface of metals, engineers can now tell if manufactured parts meet quality control standards.

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Jonathan Fisher with the 'Peter' Parkinson's device

Biomedical device for Parkinson's shortlisted for the James Dyson Award

02 Dec 2024

Jonathan Fisher was shortlisted for the James Dyson Award for his wearable biomedical device designed to help people suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

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Department spin-out company lands $5.3 million for next-generation VR lens technology

29 Nov 2024

A start-up pioneering nanophotonic lens technology for images that are always in focus – recreating human vision for the ultimate VR experience – has secured $5.3 million.

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‘Palaeo-robots’ to help scientists understand how fish started to walk on land

28 Nov 2024

A team of roboticists, palaeontologists and biologists are using robots to study how the ancestors of modern land animals transitioned from swimming to walking, about 390 million years ago.

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‘Engineering the Future and the Future of Engineering’ a talk by Professor Mark Girolami

27 Nov 2024

Professor Girolami explored engineering’s vital role in addressing humanity’s most pressing challenges at the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction Distinguished Lecture

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Building a more sustainable world

25 Nov 2024

Arup and Cambridge have been working together since the 1960s. Today, the partnership is focused on harnessing new digital technologies to build a more sustainable world.

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Research into human-robot cooperative piano playing hits the high note at AI conference

21 Nov 2024

A musical robot that can play the piano alongside a human, creating a harmonic accompaniment in real time, has won an award at the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence Conference

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Isaac Reid

Isaac Reid receives 2024 Google PhD Fellowship

20 Nov 2024

Google PhD Fellowships directly support outstanding graduate students as they pursue their PhD, as well as connect them to a Google Research Mentor.

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