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13 JulA new form of flexible photodetector could provide future robots with an electronic skin capable of ‘seeing’ light beyond the range of human vision. A team of engineers from the University of Glasgow are behind the breakthrough development, which involves a newly-developed method of printing microscale semiconductors made from gallium arsenide onto a flexible plastic surface.
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28 Jun
Green Electronics Project sets out to create compostable crop sensors
Professor Ravinder Dahiya, of JWSE, is the project’s coordinator: “What we’re setting out to do with this project is to build hardware which is designed from the start to be disposable without creating problematic waste. In fact, the waste materials from our sensors will help to grow future crops of the plants they once monitored." It brings together some of the leading experts in the field of sensor and material development from Europe & the USA. -
17 Jun
UofG Computing Science students scoop first place in TaskBot Challenge
The GRILL team (grilllab.ai) from the School of Computing Science took first place in Amazon’s Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge, beating out nine leading research teams worldwide. The team wins a cash prize of $500,000 (£414,000). PhD students Sophie Fischer, Carlos Gemmell, Iain Mackie, Paul Owoicho and Federico Rossetto made up the Alexa GRILL team.