Vital Signs

The advanced device can pick up signals other sensors cannot and uses transistors to form an inverter capable of detecting strokes. Dr Paddy KL Chan, Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, leads the team which, in collaboration with Nanjing...

Keeping Humans in the Loop

The promise of robotics in healthcare is often equated with the development of self-driving cars. The latter technology has accelerated and these cars are now being tested on roads, although not without challenges. Could we one day have autonomous medical droids...

Robots Do Us Better

Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing in rapid and fundamental ways. Think back to AlphaGo, which was the first algorithmic program to defeat a human player of Go. That was barely six years ago, yet to Professor Xi Ning, Chair Professor of Robotics...

Invention Turns Waste Heat into Electricity

More than 60 per cent of the electricity generated by power plants and industrial processes is lost as waste heat, and more than half of that is low-grade heat that is difficult to recover. Dr Tony Feng Shien-Ping of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has broken...

COVID-19: Tracking the Pandemic

POOR VENTILATION HELPS THE VIRUS SPREADHKU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has shown that COVID-19 can be transmitted several metres by air when there is poor ventilation – a timely warning as winter approaches and people spend more time indoors. The...