AI for Social Good

When Professor Victor Li On-kwok and Dr Jacqueline Lam Chi-kei of the Faculty of Engineering started working together more than a decade ago, their aim was simple: how can big data be harnessed for positive change in our societies? Professor Li brought information...

The Rise of AI

The arrival of ChatGPT may have excited media and social media experts and the general public about the prospects of artificial intelligence. But to engineers, there was nothing new under the sun.The concept of AI has been around for decades. Back in 1950, the British...

Above and Beyond

The vehicle’s full name is Powered-flying Ultra-underactuated LiDAR (light detection and ranging) Sensing Aerial Robot (PULSAR), and the development team describe it as an agile and self-rotating UAV whose three-dimensional position is fully controlled by actuating...

Reading Our Bodies

Wearable devices like the Apple Watch can track your blood rate and blood oxygen levels and detect whether you fall. But to researchers of wearable devices, this is old hat. “Those kinds of devices were developed more than 10 years ago. Some researchers are still...

In the Clover

The leaves of plants can spread under sunlight and fold in the cold. What if man-made materials could achieve the same response to environmental stimuli? A team from HKU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has tested that question by mimicking the ability of the...