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£6.5m project aims to drive digital innovation in the South West
13/04/2018
A project worth £6.5million is being launched across the South West to expand the use of digital technologies throughout the region's creative, health and manufacturing sectors.
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ClairCity game to help determine Bristol's future
13/04/2018
A new game has been launched, and it's all about Bristol. The ClairCity Skylines game from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) and Bristol City Council, enables people in the city to shape how they want their city to look in the future. By making decisions in the ClairCity Skylines game, players also provide data that can help authorities solve real world problems, such as air pollution, in the city.
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Student entrepreneurs selected for South Korea trade visit
19/03/2018
Student technology entrepreneurs from Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) have been selected to take part in an Innovate UK business trip to South Korea.
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Drone racing event invites families to build autonomous RAF airship or fly in a simulator
14/03/2018
The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is to launch the second of its indoor drone events, where families have the chance to build a remote-controlled plane, have a go in a simulator, or construct an autonomous airship with the Royal Air Force (RAF). Budding coders can also take part in a hackathon to programme a drone, while engineers will do the same to get their machines to fly unaided and race each other.
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Future Space company to move on after success of robotic cameras used in nature programmes
14/02/2018
Mobile camera rig specialists Motion Impossible, whose equipment was recently used in the hit BBC One series Big Cats, are to move to bigger premises after successfully developing their next generation robotic dolly system.
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UWE Bristol's Future Space generates more than £2 million for the region's economy within first year of opening
07/02/2018
Bristol's first science and tech hub Future Space generated more than £2 million for the regional economy within its first year, a new report reveals.
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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).
