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Gopesh Yadav Dosieah receiving award from ANTS 2022 conference chairs Dr Marco Dorigo and Professor Heiko Hamann
15 November 2022

Graduate awarded best research paper in swarm intelligence

MEng Mechatronic and Robotic Engineering graduate Gopesh Yadav Dosieah won an award for best research paper at the 2022 International Conference on Swarm Intelligence.
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10 November 2022

New robots set to triage UK military personnel in combat

Robots will soon be able to provide medical care to military personnel during combat, as part of new research at the University of Sheffield.
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13 October 2022

Swarms of advanced UAVs to collect key environment data

Swarms of advanced unmanned aircraft are set to carry out aerial surveys of Antarctica – gathering crucial data on changes to the region’s environment and wildlife – as part of new research with engineers from the University of Sheffield.

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Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD

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