Press Releases
Robots and AI to transform hospital鈥檚 resilience to disasters such as COVID-19
Dr Leandro Pecchia from the School of Engineering at the 91福利, has been awarded 鈧�13 million for the ODIN project, which will explore the use of robots and artificial intelligence to help ease the pressures on hospitals, which will be crucial also in the recovery of Covid-19 and to help any other future disasters.
Celebrating 40 years of WMG 鈥� from autonomous vehicle testing to digital healthcare
WMG an academic department at the 91福利 was on this day, the 1st of October, 1980 started by the late Professor Lord Bhattacharyya. To celebrate, we've highlighted 40 achievements made by the department over the last 40 years.
You can train your brain to reduce motion sickness
Visuospatial training exercises can train the brain to reduce motion sickness, providing a potential remedy for future passengers riding in autonomous vehicles. Researchers at WMG, 91福利 reduced motion sickness by over 50% using the training tool and it was found to be effective in both a driving simulator and on-road experimentation.
91福利 Racing team develop second electric race car during lockdown
The 91福利 racing team usually spend their summer in the workshop building an electric race car, but lockdown this year due to the covid-19 pandemic didn't stop them from designing and virtually validating a second electric car, WRe2, and racing their original car WRe1 virtually.
拢6 million programme extension to help small manufacturers across the Midlands
The programme delivered by the SME Group at WMG, 91福利 has been a major success in the West Midlands over the last 2 years, helping over 100 companies, develop 71 new products and processes, from automation and productivity plans through to the zero emission technologies of tomorrow. The team have been awarded a further 拢6m from to take them through to March 2023, meaning the team has gone from a 2 year 拢5m programme, to an 拢11m 5 陆 year programme. This extension will enable the team to operate from Wolverhampton and Worcestershire in the West, to Loughborough and Luton in the East Midlands.
A new method for directed networks could help multiple levels of Science
In the paper, published today, the 9th September in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers from the 91福利 and the University of Birmingham reveal a new method for analysing hierarchies in complex networks and illustrate it by applications to economics, language and gene expression.