Press Releases
University of Warwick announce the appointment of the Acting Director of Warwick HRI
Professor Brian Thomas was named today as the Acting Director of Warwick HRI, when HRI Wellesbourne and Kirton join the University of Warwick on 1 April 2004.
Researchers Say Hybrid Pick and Place Robots Could Be a Third Cheaper
Robot researchers have long looked at the science of Kinematics and particularly how it applies to parallel robotics as providing novel solutions to robotic problems. But now researchers at the University of Warwick and China's Tianjin University have used kinematic theory to produce a hybrid "rapid pick and place" robot that draws useful traits from both parallel and series robots and costs a third less than similar robots on the market.
Lambert Review Says Warwick One of UK's Most Entrepreneurial Universities
The Government's Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration praised the University of Warwick for its close and effective work with business and industry describing the University of Warwick as "one of the most entrepreneurial universities in the country".
Research-TV Initiative "Highly Commended" by PR Industry
"Research-TV" - a unique project involving several of the UK's leading universities was this week short listed, and in the end "Highly Commended", in the broadcast category for the prestigious PRWeek Awards 2003.
Dismay at Collapse In UK Manufacturers Investment In Automation
The British Automation and Robot Association (BARA) based at the University of Warwick is greatly concerned with UN figures just published that show In 2002, robot investment in the United Kingdom plummeted by 61%. Across the world as a whole robot orders in first half of 2003 were up by 26% - The UK however lags behind with proportionally less robots engaged in the UK manufacturing industry than the US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, or even Austria.
Researchers Find That Superman's Teeth Can Superconduct
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that phosphorus, an element commonly found in teeth, can act as a "superconductor" - but you would have to have the strength of Superman to clench your teeth hard enough for it to work - as it happens at a pressure of around 2.5 megabars - some 30,000 times harder than an ordinary human can clench their teeth.