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...

Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain

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...

Hollywood’s Cosy Ties with the US Military

After the World Trade Centre in New York was attacked in 2001, the 9/11 Commission concluded that American security forces had fallen short due to a ‘failure of imagination’. It is a failure that the military is trying to ensure will not happen again. From...

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...

Seeing the LITE

The Law Faculty’s Law, Innovation, Technovation and Entrepreneurship (LITE) Lab@HKU is barely two years old, but it is already making an impact. Students and staff have been developing tools and systems that are nudging current and future legal professionals in Hong...