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The Sunride team visits Parliament

Engineering students visit Parliament

Recently, the Sunride Committee, (an extracurricular rocket engineering project at the University of Sheffield) and Dr Alistair John, visited Parliament to speak to MP, Mark Garnier, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Space
Digital Health Hub

South Yorkshire leads the UK’s digital healthcare revolution

An ambitious new digital healthcare hub in South Yorkshire is set to lead the UK’s digital health revolution and address inequalities in patient care.
MediTel technology (Image credit: University of Sheffield AMRC)

Step forward for ACSE-developed ‘Robo Doctor’ technology

New robotic technology that researchers from ACSE, the AMRC and Sheffield Robotics have developed to remotely treat casualties of a major incident, has taken a step closer to entering full production after it impressed at a special MoD event
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield with four of the academics who have been elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering's Fellowship
Four of the academics who have been elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering's Fellowship with the University of Sheffield's Vice-Chancellor (end left) and Vice-President for Engineering (end right).

Professor Ashutosh Tiwari is one of five University of Sheffield academics elected to Royal Academy of Engineering’s Fellowship

Professor Ashutosh Tiwari from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE) is one of five academics from the University of Sheffield to have been honoured with one of the most prestigious awards in engineering, announced today

Sheffield students launch a two-stage rocket in California

Students from the Faculty of Engineering launched a two-stage rocket in California in an attempt to reach an altitude of 100,000ft.
Plane landing

Sheffield researchers to develop more efficient and sustainable landing gear systems for the aviation industry

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering are collaborating with industry on LANDOne, a £37.8 million project to deliver new greener landing gear systems.

Two academics arranging Kilobots on a plain surface

Researchers develop prototype robotic fabrics

Dr Roderich Gross has led research published in Nature Communications that uses swarm robotics to develop 'robotic fabrics' that can shrink, grow in size and move with precision.


Photo of Sheffield exhibition stand at ICRA 2023

Sheffield robotics showcase at ICRA 2023

Researchers from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering presented their robotics research at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 in London.
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Engineering student wins award in global social impact competition

Automatic Control and Systems Engineering student Seb Zuddas has won an excellence award for exceptional individual project at Map the System, a global social impact competition from the University of Oxford.