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Investment of £2 million to tackle UK's digital skills gap
25/01/2018
Training the next generation of digital specialists has received a major boost, thanks to a £2 million investment at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).
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UWE Bristol Fellowship to combine traditional printing methods with cutting-edge technology
08/12/2017
A T-shirt print capable of warning its wearer when dangerous chemicals are in the air, and pharmaceutical packaging with ink signifying when pills are counterfeit are just two ideas likely to emerge from a new research project involving the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and a leading scientist and print industry expert.
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VENTURER driverless car trial reveals users' trust levels in autonomous vehicles
27/11/2017
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) driving on our roads will need to operate more cautiously than the average driver in order to foster public trust in the technology. This is the main finding from the second in a series of three trials carried out as part of the VENTURER project, one of the first Connected and Autonomous Vehicle projects to have launched in the UK.
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'How to build a robot' film set in Bristol - media premiere at Watershed
20/11/2017
Rusty Squid, a spin out company featuring experimental robotic engineering and design that started at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), has a premiere Channel 4 screening of a film called 'How to build a robot' at the Watershed Cinema on Monday 27 November at 13:00.
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UWE Bristol celebrates success of Reach Robotics
20/11/2017
Reach Robotics, the creators of augmented reality gaming robots 'Mekamon', is moving out from its home at Future Space after a long and fruitful relationship with the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).
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Another Success for Reach Robotics
15/11/2017
Silas Adenkule, a University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) robotics graduate who set up Reach Robotics in 2013 with his business partner and co-founder Chris Beck, is celebrating another success.
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Researchers have produced the first computational device operated by 'liquid marbles'
15/11/2017
Researchers have published a paper that demonstrations the first laboratory experiment to use liquid marbles to create collision-based computation in research funded by the Research Councils UK RCUK. (EPSRC funded project EP/P016677/1)
The paper entitled 'Liquid Marble Interaction Gate for Collision-Based Computing' is published by Elsevier in Materials Today. The research is led by Professor Andy Adamatzky and Dr Ben De Lacy Costello.
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Biggest Pee Power urinal to date located near Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury
16/06/2017
PEE POWER® has been given a prime location at Glastonbury Festival just a few hundred metres from the Pyramid stage to showcase turning urine into electricity.
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VENTURER driverless car project publishes results of first trials
01/06/2017
VENTURER is the first Connected and Autonomous Vehicle project to start in the UK. The results of VENTURER preliminary trials show that the handover process is a safety critical issue in the development of AutonomousVehicles (AVs).
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UWE Bristol links up with Glastonbury Festival to promote sustainability
31/05/2017
The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is delighted to announce a five-year official partnership with Glastonbury Festival.
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Researcher to develop bio-inspired 'smart' knee for prosthetics
30/05/2017
A researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is developing a bio-inspired 'smart' knee joint for prosthetic lower limbs.
Dr Appolinaire Etoundi, based at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, is leading the research and will analyse the functions, features and mechanisms of the human knee in order to translate this information into a new bio-inspired procedure for designing prosthetics.
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UWE Bristol and South-West Open Youth Orchestra celebrate RPS Music Awards win
11/05/2017
The South-West Open Youth Orchestra, with support from UWE Bristol Music Technology lecturer and composer, Dr Liz Lane have won the Royal Philharmonic Music Award for Learning and Participation.
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Oodles founder credits student team for successful launch of new charity microdonations app
27/04/2017
“Ready to hit the ground sprinting” is the verdict of Founder, Matthew Pullinger on the career prospects of the UWE Bristol final year students who developed the interface for Oodles, a new innovative platform for making micro-donations to charity.
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'Same Love' inspired Bristol LGBT choir to take part in student produced programme
07/04/2017
A top producer at BBC Radio 4 says a programme produced by students at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is of a professional quality.
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UWE Bristol's collaboration with South-West Open Youth Orchestra recognised on RPS Music Awards shortlist
05/04/2017
The South-West Open Youth Orchestra, with support from UWE Bristol Music Technology lecturer and composer, Dr Liz Lane has been shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Music Award for Learning and Participation.
