Croucher Foundation News

June 2018

Font engineering: from genomes to typography​ 22 June 2018

Story of Dr Hin-tak Leung who made a shift from physicist to a career in typography.

Motorless robots 18 June 2018

A team of mechanical engineers has developed a new class of actuating material that may help the development of motorless robots in future.

Robotic system to be used in brain surgery 15 June 2018

An engineering team led by Dr Kwok Ka-wai of the University of Hong Kong has developed a robot to improve the accuracy of brain surgery when used inside a magnetic resonance imaging scanner.

BATS Code for efficient network transmission 1 June 2018

Annoyed by the pixelated screen when streaming a live football game? BATS code might be the solution.