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Design an animal-inspired robot competition
03/11/2014
The Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is working with Bristol Robotics Laboratory and Bristol Zoo Gardens to inspire young people to have a go at designing robots inspired by animals.
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Joel Gibbard of Open Bionics named Founder of the Year at SPARKies
31/10/2014
Joel Gibbard of Open Bionics, has been named Founder of the Year at The SPARKies award put on by TechSparkUK. The award was announced last night at the SPARKies awards ceremony at Komedia in Bath, as part of Bath Digital Festival.
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Open Bionics pitching in US to win £500k at Intel Make it Wearable competition
31/10/2014
On Saturday 1 November Open Bionics founder Joel Gibbard will pitch his 3D printed prosthetic hand to a panel of judges in San Francisco, in a bid to win the coveted Intel Make it wearable prize. The judging panel will include Venus Williams and the chairs of Nike, Best Buy, and Louis Vuitton, in a bid to win $500,000.
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Bristol Robotics Lab start-ups make royal pitch
20/10/2014
Three new start-up tech businesses based in the Bristol Robotics Lab (BRL) will be taking their innovative ideas to the Pitch@Palace Bootcamp today, The Duke of York's acclaimed initiative to support entrepreneurs.
Reach Robotics, (Silas Adekunle), Dawn Robotics (Alan Broun), and OmniDynamics (David Graves) are three start-up companies based in the Technology Business Incubation Unit in BRL that have been chosen for the Pitch@palace competition Bootcamp taking place on Monday 20 October.
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Robotics start up in final of Lloyds Bank Enterprise Awards
12/09/2014
A company based at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL) has reached the national final of the Lloyds Bank Enterprise award for graduates, after winning the regional heat in Exeter this week. The competition, now in its third year, offers the winning venture a first prize of £50,000.
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Prosthetic hand project in global finals of Intel Make it Wearable competition
05/09/2014
An idea to significantly reduce the cost of prosthetic limbs using rapid prototyping technology has reached the global final of the Make it Wearable Competition, run by Intel.
Joel Gibbard and Sammy Payne of Open Bionics, which is based in the incubator at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), submitted a video explaining their idea for a robotic prosthetic hand that will cost less than £600 to make.
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UWE Bristol graduate designs rugged tablets for emergency services and mobile workforces
30/07/2014
Hywel Vaughan, a Product Design Technology Graduate from UWE Bristol is using his expertise to design a rugged tablet PC and convertible laptops for frontline users in the emergency services, as part of his role at Tetratab, a company that specialises in supplying tough technology to mobile workforces around the world.
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UWE Bristol students gear up for world's largest student motorsport competition
09/07/2014
Students from UWE Bristol are readying themselves to race in Formula Student, an international motorsport competition taking place at Silverstone from 9-13 July.
UWE Spires Racing, comprised of 70 students from multiple disciplines across the University, will be one of the 114 teams from 38 different countries lining up on the grid at the event run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
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UWE VC welcomes Local Growth Deal announced at BRL today
07/07/2014
University of the West of England Vice-Chancellor Professor Steve West has warmly welcomed the announcement of the Local Growth Deal made today by Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory on the UWE Bristol Frenchay Campus.
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UWE Bristol to lead high-tech Enterprise Zone
03/07/2014
Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, today announced that UWE Bristol has won government funding to set up one of four 'University Enterprise Zones' to be supported by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
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Children getting burnt on unsupervised sunbeds
09/06/2014
HALF OF all under-18s who have ever used a sunbed have been burned at least once, according to research presented at Public Health England's annual National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) conference in Birmingham today (Monday).
A national survey of more than 3,000 11–17-year-olds has shown the ban on under-18s from using sunbeds has reduced the number of children in Great Britain using them, with less than five per cent (4.5) now saying they have used sunbeds compared to nearly seven per cent (6.8) in 2008/9.
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euRathlon 2015 sets sea robotics challenge in the wake of Fukushima
06/06/2014
The euRathlon 2014 sea robotics competition will challenge teams of students and engineers to perform autonomous missions in the marine environment in scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident.
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A fast-cooling iron, an energy saving kettle and a facemask that allows scuba divers to communicate via sound waves
03/06/2014
UWE Bristol Environment and Technology Degree Show Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 June 2014 - R block Frenchay Campus
A fast-cooling iron designed to improve child safety, a facemask that allows scuba divers to communicate via sound waves and an intelligent kettle that learns your habits to save water and energy are three of the most exciting and innovative exhibits at this year's Environment and Technology Degree Show.
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OmniDynamics launch crowdfunding campaign to support innovative 3D printer accessory
28/05/2014
A chance meeting at the UWE Bristol canteen has brought together two sets of entrepreneurial students to launch a crowdfunding campaign, to bring to market an innovative 3D printer accessory.
Strooder, a plastic filament extruder has been designed by year two robotic engineering students, David Graves and Gregory Gruzecki, founders of OmniDynamics. This cost effective, versatile device aims to bring down the cost of home 3D printing, by enabling users to produce their own filament (3D printing ink).
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Qatari high school students visit UWE Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory
14/05/2014
A team of high school students from the Tarek Bin Zeyad Secondary School, Qatar recently visited UWE Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory as prize-winners of a competition to visit the UK to discover more about the British engineering industry. The trip was organised by Professor Saud Ghani, Associate Dean of Development and Industrial Relations and Communications Manager, Oasma Omar from College of Engineering, Qatar University.
