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Rise and evolution of the Daleks

Opinion: How we built a robot that can evolve – and why it won’t take over the world

18 Dec 2015

Fumiya Iida (Department of Engineering) discusses the "mother" robot he has built with his colleagues, and why reacting to developments in robotics...

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An experiment at the Cavendish Laboratory

Raising aspirations in local schools

09 Dec 2015

Members of a Cambridge University access group dedicated to raising aspirations in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough state schools have arranged over...

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Supercomputer

The future of intelligence: Cambridge University launches new centre to study AI and the future of humanity

03 Dec 2015

The University of Cambridge is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities...

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Funding boost for infrastructure research at Cambridge

30 Nov 2015

Two new funding initiatives at the University of Cambridge will support the UK’s infrastructure and cities.

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Head-Up Display (HUD) projects key driving information onto a small area of the windscreen.

Heads up: Cambridge holographic technology adopted by Jaguar Land Rover

26 Nov 2015

A ‘head-up’ display for passenger vehicles developed at Cambridge, the first to incorporate holographic techniques, has been incorporated into Jaguar...

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Mimoyecques eastern site reconstruction

Opinion: Building Hitler’s supergun: the plot to destroy London and why it failed

23 Nov 2015

Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses the engineering behind the V-3 “supergun”, the weapon that was meant to win the Second World War for...

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Opinion: Blocking out the sun won’t fix climate change – but it could buy us time

19 Nov 2015

Hugh Hunt (Department of Engineering) discusses whether we could directly engineer the climate and refreeze the poles.

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121.365 Innovation

Given in evidence

17 Nov 2015

How do we get better at taking the research knowledge from our science and engineering base and turning it into technologies, industries and economic...

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Shot in the dark’: the winning image from this year’s engineering photo competition.

Bullet holes and graphene caves: picturing engineering

10 Nov 2015

From a Cambridge guide for robot tourists, to titanium ‘comets’, the winners of the annual Department of Engineering photo competition highlight the...

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Some of the products and prototypes on display at Cambridge Graphene Technology Day.

Graphene means business – two-dimensional material moves from the lab to the UK factory floor

06 Nov 2015

A major showcase of companies developing new technologies from graphene and other two-dimensional materials took place this week at the Cambridge...

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Firefighters putting out a blaze in London after an air raid during The Blitz in 1941.

‘Blitz spirit’ needed to adapt to climate change, engineer warns

03 Nov 2015

Today's engineers will need the kind of drive and determination shown by the great wartime innovators such as Sir Barnes Wallis and Sir Frank Whittle...

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Skyline - Hong Kong, China

New partnerships for ‘low carbon cities’ in the UK and China

23 Oct 2015

Researchers from UK and Chinese universities, including the University of Cambridge, are collaborating on four new projects to work towards achieving...

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