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Leaps, a new initiative from the University’s innovation arm, Cambridge Enterprise, will embed Cambridge-based companies in tech clusters around the world, giving their founders access to new markets, talent and investment.
University spinout, CamGraPhIC, has received the EC greenlight for €211 million funding (about £183 million) from Italy to support the development of photonic optical transceivers based on graphene.
French trip highlighting the power of partnership for innovation with Ox-Cam, Manchester and Station F.
The UK’s most powerful quantum computer, which will accelerate research and discovery in quantum science, engineering, and a range of other applications, will be based at the University of Cambridge as part of a new partnership with the quantum technology company IonQ. The collaboration is the University’s largest-ever corporate research partnership.
Robots are becoming increasingly capable in vision and movement, yet touch remains one of their major weaknesses. Now, researchers have developed a miniature tactile sensor that could give robots something much closer to a human sense of touch.
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