Promising ideas for a brighter tomorrow
A striking blue robot named Rosie has made itself at home for the last couple of years in the Robotics, Perception and Learning lab at KTH, as part of a project in which robots are learning how to perceive three dimensional environments and move about and interact in them — even in the course of routine … Continue reading “A robot learns its way around the lab”
Drones are already flying to remote places to drop off heart defibrillators. In Singapore, there’s even a restaurant where drones carry orders from the kitchen to the waiters’ station. Soon, you can add to the list: drones that perform inspection and maintenance on infrastructure like bridges and radio towers. A team of automatic control researchers at … Continue reading “Watch this maintenance drone simulate a pick-up and drop-off”
A 195-year-old discovery is the basis for a new system that will save vehicles hundreds of litres of fuel and reduce their carbon emissions by as much as 2 to 3 tonnes per year. Working with automotive manufacturer Scania, researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology have been testing semi trucks equipped with a system that converts … Continue reading “Truck’s engine taps own heat for power”
What if you could go back in time and see exactly what would have happened if only you had done things differently? That’s what researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm did with three actual bike crashes in which the riders wore no helmets. This squirm-inducing video shows the impact on an adult male’s … Continue reading “Rewinding a bike crash shows how helmets protect”
Stephen Hawking just delivered a status report on the search for a solution to the information loss paradox, at the conclusion of a weeklong conference being held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The conference was sponsored by Nordita, a theoretical physics research center co-driven by KTH and Stockholm University. The organizer was … Continue reading “Hawking discusses results of black hole conference”
