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...

Teamwork at the Nanoscale

Nanoparticles are programmed microscopic particles that can respond to external stimuli such as light to perform functions, such as moving towards a chemical target or light source. The hope is that they can be harnessed for energy saving, drug delivery and other...

Cutting-Edge Choral

Termed a ‘tech cantata’, the piece features a live choir which vies for the audience’s attention with a virtual choir singing on a massive hologram screen behind them — the two groups both competing with each other’s performances and enhancing them. Said Professor of...

Connecting through Campusland

“The Data Science Lab (DSL) developed HKU Campusland and used mixed reality to bring the virtual world to the real world and vice versa,” said Dr Adela Lau, Deputy Director of DSL in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (SAAS). “Users create an avatar...

Oral Surgeons Bring AI Tool to Nigeria

In 2022, researchers in the Faculty of Dentistry led an international team to develop an AI web tool that could predict patients’ risk of developing oral cancer. The tool, based on the AI algorithm DeepSurv, had a 95 per cent accuracy rate on a cohort of more than 700...