Modelling Human Vision

In every waking moment, our eyes take in an enormous amount of information from our environment – people, places, things, animals, events. But how does our brain identify and organise these images, and single out the important ones?That question is of...

Computers Take the Wheel

Self-driving cars are no longer a vision of the future. They are already operating in some streets. Google’s Waymo, which develops self-driving vehicles, is up and running in several US cities and this year started testing in Japan. Goldman Sachs predicted in August...

‘Facial Recognition’ for Cells

Anyone suspected to have cancer wants to know the situation as soon as possible – is the diagnosis confirmed? Is the treatment working? Has it come back? But getting accurate information can be expensive and time-consuming. Labels, or biomarkers, have to be...

Pepping up the Pooch

Dogs play a central role in many people’s lives – not only as family pet, companion or exercise facilitator, but often as child substitute. Others have professional roles – be they sniffing out drugs or explosives, police dog or emotional support...

Pet Project

Professor Lu Peng of the Department of Mechanical Engineering is an expert in drones and ground robots. But after having children, he began to wonder how he could apply his skills to improve the life of his children. Why not a robopet?Robots face similar control...