Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) is part of a new £1.2million project which aims to ensure future robotic systems can be trusted by humans. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is funding the three-and-a-half-year project, which will explore how robots can interact with humans in a safe and trustworthy manner.
A Raspberry Pi boot camp organised by students from the Faculty of Engineering together with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and At-Bristol, will take place this Saturday, 15 June.
The University of Bristol has received more than £3.4 million in a recent injection of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for postgraduate training.
New research by scientists from the Universities of Bristol, UK, and Oldenburg, Germany, has mapped the most detailed forecast to date for importing potentially harmful invasive species with the ballast water of cargo ships.
Jeremy O’Brien, Professorial Research Fellow in Physics and Electrical Engineering and director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics, has been named a RISE Leader for 2014 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Using an acoustic metadevice that can influence the acoustic space and can control any of the ways in which waves travel, engineers have demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possible to dynamically alter the geometry of a three-dimensional colloidal crystal in real time.
Bristol student Nic Ellington has been awarded one of only 25 places on the prestigious SC12 Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates Program.
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have developed a new type of screen display that not only moves but also physically tilts.
No sooner has the curtain come down on London 2012 than Great Britain prepares to welcome its next international sporting event – this time with robots as the competitors. Sports such as football, basketball and weightlifting will come under the spotlight as the world’s most advanced robots and their creators go head-to-head at the FIRA RoboWorld Cup, taking place in the UK for the first time from 20 to 25 August.
Two University of Bristol students have been named as winners of the 2014 TARGETjobs Undergraduate of the Year competition for outstanding achievements in their undergraduate studies.
