by admin | Nov 21, 2022
In the summer of 2019, Dr Peter J Cobb, a joint appointee of the Faculties of Education and Arts, decided to create a course around his archaeological fieldwork in Armenia. The idea was that HKU students would travel to the country the following summer to help with...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
Hong Kong and southern China produce more than 30 per cent of the world’s edible oysters, largely using a species endemic to Hong Kong (Crassostrea hongkongensis) that is popularly called the Hong Kong oyster, as well as indigenous aquaculture practices that have been...
by admin | Nov 19, 2021
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...
by admin | May 13, 2021
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...
by admin | May 13, 2021
Professor Yuk-fai Fong is under no illusions about the challenges that automation presents to workers around the world. Robots, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are threatening jobs – indeed, in 2019 Oxford Economics predicted up to 20 million manufacturing...
