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...
by admin | May 12, 2021
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...
by admin | Nov 8, 2020
In 2018, two Computer Engineering students, Desmond Wong Chi-ping and Felix Wong Kwong-yat, were sifting through numerous ideas to submit for contention in the China Collegiate Computing Contest, when Felix read a news article about the severe shortage of guide dogs...
by admin | Nov 7, 2020
A decade ago, facial recognition technology that used artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision was still largely confined to the laboratory. That was about to change and among the pioneers was Dr Ping Luo of the Department of Computer Science. Dr Luo was doing...
