Tag Archives: University of Leeds

Professor Robert Richardson becomes chair of the ESPRC UK-RAS Network.

The universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds and Bristol have received a government grant of £26.6 million to develop micro-robots (pictured) which will run through underground pipes to find and mend cracks.  “While for now we can only dream of a world without roadworks disrupting our lives, these pipe-repairing robots herald the start of technology that could make that dream a ...

Work done in the 1970s and 80s by the three physics Nobel Laureates named earlier this week: David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, is just starting to bear fruit in the world of electronics. The prize, split 50, 25, 25% respectively, was awarded “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”, said the Nobel organisation. Their ...

Researchers from the Universities of Glasgow and Leeds have developed materials for implementing racetrack memory. Racetrack memory uses lines of nanowires. Electricity passed through the wires creates ‘domain walls’ – spaces between the wires where information can be stored. Materials are still a key question for implementing the technology. The team from Glasgow and Leeds used electron microscopy to look ...

One for the medical sector. The University of Leeds Medical Technologies Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) has won £3 million to continue its medical technology research.

Four businesses spun out of UK universities will receive funding, mentoring and support from The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub. The four entities are: Dr Matthew Murray, University of Leeds, Ultramatis anti-counterfeiting implantation Dr George Frodsham, University College London, MediSieve magnetic haemofiltration for malaria Dr Peiman Hosseini, University of Oxford, materials for wearable displays Bethan Wolfenden and Philipp Boeing, University ...

A device to transmit manual touch sensations directly into the brain – inevitably dubbed a “bionic hand” – is being worked on by the universities of Leeds, Essex, Keele, Southampton and Imperial College London, led by Newcastle University.

A £5.2 million project led by the University of Leeds is aiming to transform data communications with advances in photonic chips.

A celebration of university research will take place at the Natural History Museum in London in June. Leeds University is among those taking part, showcasing its interactive robotic work aimed at such things as disaster response, exploration, surgery, prosthetics and patient rehabilitation. The showcase is part of Universities Week (9 – 15 June 2014), an annual Universities UK campaign to ...

The UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has awarded the University of Leeds £5 million to host and lead two national centres for studying the Earth from space. These two centres – the Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET) and the Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling (CPOM) – moved to the University of ...