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A class act: empathetic robot tutors in classrooms to facilitate teaching and learning

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A European project to develop robotic tutors that will support teachers and motivate students in secondary schools is being led by University of Birmingham engineers and computer scientists, in collaboration with Heriot-Watt University and other European partners.
Date:
18/02/2013
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research, Teaching

Birmingham academic explores developments in voice recognition technology

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Professor Martin Russell explores developments in voice recognition technology
Date:
17/01/2012
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

Birmingham's household robot a science museum success

Birmingham's household robot a science museum success
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Dora, a domestic robot devised and built by a group of European computer scientists led by the University of Birmingham, featured at the London Science Museum's Robotville exhibition from the 1st – 4th December 2011.
Date:
19/12/2011
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

Birmingham Physicists excited by hints of Higgs boson existence

Birmingham Physicists excited by hints of Higgs boson existence
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Birmingham particle physicists are today trawling through the data from particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider that could indicate the existence of the Higgs boson.
Date:
25/07/2011
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

An orchestra of stars

An orchestra of stars
Description
A Birmingham led international team of asteroseismologists, has used data from the NASA Kepler Mission to sample the 'stellar music' of 500 stars similar to the Sun, according to research published today (7 April 2011) in the journal Science.
Date:
07/04/2011
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Research

Clues to stellar evolution revealed in Red Giants' core

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Birmingham asteroseimologists have been studying approximately 600 red giant stars and have been able to distinguish between those that burn hydrogen and those that are burning helium in their cores, according to research published in the journal Nature.
Date:
01/04/2011
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

Seeing the Sun from all angles

Seeing the Sun from all angles
Description
University physicists and engineers, together with colleagues at the Science and Technology Facilities Council Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have developed the camera systems responsible for taking the first 360 degree view of the Sun.
Date:
15/02/2011
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Research

Physicists use natural crystals to develop invisibility cloak

Description
Physicists from the University of Birmingham, with colleagues at Imperial College, London and Technical University of Denmark, have demonstrated an 'invisibility cloak' that can hide a three-dimensional object, centimetres in dimension, large enough for the cloaking area to be visible to the human eye.
Date:
02/02/2011
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences
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