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Now a new crop of sports stars are hoping their recreation of the euphoria displayed by England’s Bobby Moore in 1966, and Spain’s Andres Iniesta in 2010, will help them take the world of robot football by storm this summer.

ANN ARBOR-High-frequency trading strategies that exploit today's fragmented equity markets reduce investor profits overall, according to new findings by University of Michigan engineering researchers. The study is believed to be the first to examine how a common and lucrative trading practice known as latency arbitrage can exploit both market rules and the recent growth in the number of venues where stocks can change hands.

New array measures vibrations across the skin, may help engineers design optimal, wearable tactile displays.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT DATE: 8:30 a.m. 4:00 p.m. June 19, 2013 EVENT: Twenty tech startups from around the state of Michigan will share their business concepts and lessons learned during the first ever Michigan I-Corps program finale.

Posted under: Engineering , Research , Science , Technology , UW and the Community Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are the most efficient and environmentally friendly light bulbs on the market.

Fault Current Ltd (FCL), a Fusion IP portfolio company based at Cardiff University School of Engineering's Wolfson Centre for Magnetics, has secured a £635,000 grant from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

A team of engineers is setting out to create the world's first camera sensor capable of 'seeing' across a wide range of wavelengths.

Researchers from the University of Leeds are involved in a unique, five-year £10 million collaboration to improve virtual engineering. Scientists from the University's Institute for Transport Studies have joined forces with three other leading UK universities, car-maker Jaguar Land Rover and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to deliver the project.

Solar panels on the roof of a Madison home. A UW-Madison engineer has proposed a new design for solar panels that can simultaneously generate and store energy.

ANN ARBOR-Transportation crashes have accounted for two-thirds of U.S. noncombat military deaths since 2000-a trend University of Michigan researchers are hoping to help reverse.

NSF-Sponsored Center Creates Intelligent Systems To Improve Daily Living : Byron Spice / 412-268-9068 / bspice [a] cs.cmu (p) edu Kristen Sabol / 412-268-3795 / ksabol [a] andrew.cmu (p

The state-of-the-art Millennium Science Complex on Penn State's University Park campus embodies a new style of interdisciplinary and collaborative research.

First-of-its-kind noninvasive system has potential to help people with disabilities MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (06/05/2013) —Researchers in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering have developed a new noninvasive system that allows people to control a flying robot using only their mind.

Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway-like robotic vehicles.

In the Harvard Science Center, hundreds of Cambridge eighth-graders gasped in amazement as they watched liquid nitrogen violently and instantaneously transform from a boiling liquid to a frozen solid and back again - all while trapped under the pressure of a bell jar's clear dome.

A new WiFi test process that combines 3D antenna measurements with in-home virtual reality modelling was announced today [Tuesday 4 June] by researchers at the University of Bristol's Communication Systems and Networks (CSN) Group. The work, managed in conjunction with Farncombe, a leading provider of specialist product strategy and technical consultancy and engineering services to the global TV industry, was recently used to evaluate and optimise the performance of Virgin Media's new Super Hub WiFi router.

A team of researchers, including members of the University of Chicago's Institute for Molecular Engineerin g , highlight the power of emerging quantum technologies in two recent papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . These technologies exploit quantum mechanics, the physics that dominates the atomic world, to perform disparate tasks such as nanoscale temperature measurement and processing quantum information with lasers.

Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down.

31 May 2013 Robots in banana patches could be a reality in Australian within 10 years, according to a University of Sydney robotics expert who will address the banana industry's national congress this weekend.

ANN ARBOR-High-performance thermoelectric materials that convert waste heat to electricity could one day be a source of more sustainable power.

Helping the UK to develop more hi-tech industries will be the focus of research at a centre, officially launched at Imperial College London today.

In the opening scene of the iconic movie of the 1960s, The Graduate , Benjamin Braddock, at a party to celebrate his college degree, is given one word of advice for his future: "Plastics.

Stanford physicists have created a new method of producing coherent matter beams. The new laser system would use a hundredth the power of conventional lasers and could one day be used in many places from consumer goods to quantum computers. Lasers are an unseen backbone of modern society. They're integral to technologies ranging from high-speed Internet services to Blu-ray players.

A new nanoparticle developed by Stanford engineers offers promising advancement in the way water is purified.

16 May 2013 The first satellite of Galileo's next phase has arrived at ESA's technical heart in the Netherlands for a rigorous set of tests to check its readiness for launch.

Injectable nanogel can monitor blood-sugar levels and secrete insulin when needed. Injectable nanoparticles developed at MIT may someday eliminate the need for patients with Type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor their blood-sugar levels and inject themselves with insulin. The nanoparticles were designed to sense glucose levels in the body and respond by secreting the appropriate amount of insulin, thereby replacing the function of pancreatic islet cells, which are destroyed in patients with Type 1 diabetes.

Australia's electricity supply could be more efficient, reliable and accommodating of more renewable energy but we are facing a shortage of power experts, says Professor Joe (Zhao Yang) Dong whose ap

ANN ARBOR-Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated a paradigm-shifting "polariton" laser that's fueled not by light, but by electricity.

The University of Nottingham is working to help more talented young people get into the electronics industry.

New hardware could lead to wireless devices that identify and exploit unused transmission frequencies, using radio spectrum much more efficiently.

From the chimera in Greek mythology to the sphinx in ancient Egypt, humans have imagined making creatures from pieces of different organisms for millennia. Tissue engineering, the innovative field that uses engineering principles to develop biological substitutes for cells or even major organs, is just the latest version, says Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic , the Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences.

Engineers combine layers of flexible materials into pressure sensors to create a wearable heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill.

14 May 2013 A national collaboration of electronic engineers and computer scientists is aiming to develop the next generation of energy-efficient computing systems.

Electrical engineering Professor Alexander Vardy, a renowned researcher in information and coding theory, has been appointed as the first Jack Keil Wolf Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

PHILADELPHIA - A powerful collaboration of researchers, manufacturers and economic development officials are embarking on a groundbreaking demonstration project for smart-grid, net zero energy buildings called the GridSTAR Center - a Smart Energy Campus initiative at The Navy Yard in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA - A powerful collaboration of researchers, manufacturers and economic development officials are embarking on a groundbreaking demonstration project for smart-grid, net zero energy buildings called the GridSTAR Center - a Smart Energy Campus initiative at The Navy Yard in Philadelphia.

ANN ARBOR-Leading nanoscientists created beautiful, tiled patterns with flat nanocrystals, but they were left with a mystery: Why did some sets of crystals arrange themselves in an alternating, herringbone style? To find out, they turned to experts in computer simulation at the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David Saint John, an instructor in Penn State's College of Engineering, working with a 3-D printer constructed by engineering students.

David Saint John, an instructor in Penn State's College of Engineering, working with a 3-D printer constructed by engineering students.

Press Release: Robotics Institute Helps Make Stunning Satellite Imagery Easily Accessible-Carnegie Mellon News - Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab Works With Google, USGS and TIME Magazine on Tim

The most powerful cluster of research intensive universities in the UK are joining forces to form a new consortium to become one of the world's leading hubs for science and engineering research.