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£34.6M awarded to host National Hub for a robotics-enabled sustainable future for manufacturing

A national research hub, designed to support the UK’s transition to a circular manufacturing ecosystem, is to be established. Researchers at Sheffield are partnering in the Hub and will lead the research activities in cyber-physical inspection.
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We’re hiring!

Chair in Robotics and Autonomous Systems is a post at the Centre for Machine Intelligence at The University of Sheffield and is affiliated with the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Science
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Complex Systems Modelling: Using AI and Machine Learning to Improve Seasonal Weather Predictions

A team of researchers here at the University of Sheffield have developed a new method which is hoped will improve predicting seasonal weather conditions in the UK and Northwest Europe.
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Engineering Research Assistant and PhD students host IEEE Entrepreneurship pitch event

The University of Sheffield recently hosted an IEEE Entrepreneurship Event with seven teams of engineering students pitching their ideas to an expert panel. The three winning teams will now advance to the regional finals with teams from across Europe

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The University of Sheffield
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