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Spinout from ITU automates strenuous lab work

robots Research Digital Design Department Entrepreneurship startups

September 13, 2018

Robot professor Kasper Støy has founded Flow Robotics, which lets a robot take over repetitive pipetting tasks that lead to hand and arm injuries among lab workers.

Robotic fish teaches itself to swim

robots Digital Design Department Research artificial intelligence

August 15, 2018

Inspired by the black ghost knifefish, two researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen have developed a soft robot that taught itself to swim. By means of an evolutionary algorithm, the artificial fish has discovered a swimming technique resembling that which the knife fish developed through natural evolution.

New robot printer spits out recyclable robots

robots Computer Science Department Research Digital Design Department Sebastian Risi

July 3, 2017

In just 13 minutes, a newly developed robot printer can transform an aluminum wire with little motors attached into a functional robot that can be recycled and reused for other purposes. Researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), MIT and Columbia, among others, are behind the invention, which might eventually be used in space or in disaster situations.

New research will improve the quality of industrial robots

robots Computer Science Department Research Andrzej Wasowski Claus Brabrand Yvonne Dittrich grants

March 21, 2017

In a new EU funded project, researchers from the IT University of Copenhagen and European partners will work to improve quality assurance in a platform for industrial robot programming.

The robots of the future are soft and octopus-like

robots Digital Design Department Research digital art

February 27, 2017

Soft robots made from materials like silicone have the potential to change what we use robots for and challenge how we perceive them, says PhD student Jonas Jørgensen, who uses his combined background as a physicist and art historian in his experiments with the technology.

ITU appoints three professors in software

robots Computer Science Department Andrzej Wasowski Philippe Bonnet Kasper Støy software

September 12, 2016

With the new professorships, ITU is strengthening its Software and Systems section.

Sustainable energy: The future of pee-power to be investigated

robots Research Kasper Støy Business IT Department

May 25, 2016

It’s possible to convert urine into electricity, but so far only to an extent where a mobile phone can be charged. Now researchers at the IT University of Copenhagen have built a robot that can help us find out whether organic waste is usable as a sustainable energy source.

Sustainable energy: The future of pee-power to be investigated

robots Computer Science Department Research green IT Kasper Støy

May 24, 2016

ITU researchers launch robot spin-out

robots Research startups

May 17, 2016

A new, user-friendly robot has the potential to revolutionize workflows in laboratories worldwide. The driving force behind the invention is ITU-researcher Kasper Støy, who will commercialize the idea in a new spin-out company.

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