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• Here’s why RPL Summer School was a success

  The good reviews of the RPL Summer School are no coincidence. Member of the organising committee, Fereidoon Zangeneh, shares some key insights about the success.

• Accepted papers in May

  The following papers from researchers at RPL has been accepted to various events this past month:

• RPL Assistant Professor Position 2022

• Accepted papers in August

  The following papers from researchers at RPL has been accepted to various events this past month:

• Leonard Bruns and Patric Jensfelt: Finalist for Best Paper Award at IAS17!

  Leonard Bruns, a doctoral student and Patric Jensfelt, Professor, both at the Division of Robotics, Perception & Learning were awarded Finalist for the Best Paper Award at IAS17.

• Truls Nyberg and José Manuel Gaspar Sánchez: Best student paper award at IV22!

  Truls Nyberg, an industrial doctoral student at the Division of Robotics, Perception & Learning, and José Manuel Gaspar Sánchez from the unit of Mechatronics and Embedded Control Systems at ITM won Best student paper award at IV22.

• Sanne van Waveren is selected for HRI Pioneers 2022!

• Accepted papers in April

  The following papers from researchers at RPL has been accepted to various events this past month:

• Master thesis or internship in Programmable Matter

  “Programmable matter intends to enable the instant creation of complex objects and their transfiguration on command. If such magical morphable matter were cheap and effective, it would allow us to send and download copies of objects as easily as we do digital documents. We could duplicate an object and then reshape it to our whims.” (spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-hardware/make-your-own-world-with-programmable-matter)

• 3D printing can now manufacture customized sensors for robots, pacemakers, and more

  A newly-developed 3D printing technique could be used to cost-effectively produce customized electronic “machines” the size of insects which enable advanced applications in robotics, medical devices and others.

• 3D model of living brain cancer points to possible future for drug screening

  As a potential alternative for drug testing without lab animals, researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology developed and successfully tested a 3D model of living brain cancer that surmounts one of the biggest challenges in tissue engineering.

• Accepted papers in September

  The following papers from researchers at RPL has been accepted to various events this past month:

• Sanne van Waveren won Second Prize at Forskar Grand Prix Stockholm 2022!

• Accepted papers in October

  The following papers from researchers at RPL has been accepted to various events this past month:

• Awarded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to Erica Zeglio at Herland Lab

  Here is the abstract.

• A Scalable Method for the large-area Integration of 2D Materials

• A Nature Physics publication: Three-dimensional fluid lattices

• Congratulations to Niclas Roxhed - appointed acting director of MedTech Labs

• Brush that loosens cells in cysts could become weapon against pancreatic cancer

• Learning algorithms is an ever-increasing part of modern engineering

  Learning algorithms have already shown great promise to deliver high-performing solutions to complex dynamic problems ranging from walking robots to games. They are set to play an ever-increasing role in modern safety-critical infrastructure such as smart grids and intelligent transportation. However, their emergence in safety-critical systems is not without problems.

• The MST spin-off machine

  Since the start of KTH Innovation in 2007, researchers, students and employees have founded 250 companies that are still active. Out of those, 11 are spin-offs from the division of Micro and Nanosystems. What is the secret behind this spin-off success?

• Congratulations Esteban!

  Esteban won the best PhD thesis award of the Control Systems division of the EEA Club and the GdR MACS from the French CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). We talked to Esteban about his background, his research and his goals for the future.

• KTH and partners to develop critical parts of next generation 6G networks

  KTH has joined forces with Ericsson and eight other partners to solve one of the key challenges of new 6G networks, predictable end-to-end connections between users, processes, and digital representations in the cyber world.

• Accepted publications in November and December

  The following papers from researchers at RPL has been accepted to various events this past month:

• Researchers performed unique computer simulations

  One of the most extensive data simulations ever was carried out a few weeks ago by researchers at KTH. The test is unique because the research group is the only one in Sweden to have access to Europe's new supercomputer LUMI.

• 28 ideas that will attract new students

  A new initiative with 28 ready-to-go ideas for high school projects aims to evoke interest in technical studies. Prospective students are encouraged to write about social robots, brain function, data analysis and cyber security.

• KTH researchers developing new approaches to robotics

  Robotics has the potential to unlock large benefits for society, but new applications, such as assistive robotics functions in healthcare require fundamental breakthroughs in how robots reason and interact with the world. Associate Professor Florian Pokorny leads two new research projects that push the boundaries of data-driven robotics.

• "A unique research environment"

  The Electrum lab in Kista enables research in microelectromechanical systems, known as MEMS, to grow exponentially.

• Scalable Production of Spider Silk Nanowires

  Researchers from KTH have successfully up-scaled the process for producing and releasing spider silk nanowires. They used liquid bridge-induced assembly to create over 12 million of 10 μm long nanowires suspended in solution in about 20 minutes. The nanowires can easily be functionalized by both pre-and post-formation and are successfully used to support cell adhesion as well as integrated into 3D cell aggregates.

• Reducing global misuse of antibiotics with digital dipsticks

  Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health today, but we still overtreat many infections with antibiotics—urinary tract infections being one of the most common. A digital dipstick created by the KTH spin-off company UTI-lizer can diagnose infections on the spot to help decrease the threat.

• Earlier diagnosis of cancer with Lucky Loop

  If you have a cyst, you want the doctor to be able to tell you how severe it is. But until now, this has been more complex than it sounds. The new start-up Lucky Loop will help diagnose pancreatic cancer earlier.

• EECS researchers awarded prestigious fellowships

  EECS captures four out of five elevations to IEEE fellow awarded to Swedish academia.

• Finding pathways to better understanding

  Ragnar Thobaben’s areas of expertise are information theory and communication theory. In many ways, research in these areas has laid the foundations for the communication society of today and is now helping to address fresh challenges in emerging areas.

• How you speak matters – not only what you say

  The Stockholm region competition of the Forskar Grand Prix took place during ForskarFredag on 30 September. Sanne van Waveren from the department of robotics, perception and learning took second place. Read about her experience in communicating with a general audience.

• Towards complexity-aware-decision-making for robots

  Is it possible to optimise robots' decision-making so that decisions are good and simple? Yes, doctoral student Elis Stefansson's research has shown that. Now, he has won the Outstanding Student Paper Prize 2022 by the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems. This prize is given annually at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

• This is EECS’ contribution to ForskarFredag

  Friday, 30 September, is the time for ForskarFredag at Vetenskapens Hus. Representants from EECS will be competing in presentation technology, lectures in swallowable microsystems and presenting students' projects created in advanced graphics and electrical engineering.

• How to predict a conversation

  The SIGIDAL best paper award went to Erik Ekstedt and Gabriel Skantze from Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH). Their model learns to predict what will happen in the next two seconds of the conversation. The research improves the interaction between humans and conversational systems, such as social robots or voice assistants.

• They enable safer and more efficient autonomous vehicles

  Truls Nyberg and José Manuel Gaspar Sánchez put their heads together and came up with an algorithm that facilitates safer roads. In their award-winning paper, they show how to safely deploy autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the public space.

• GeneDisco Challenge

  We talked to Stefan Bauer who is organising a Machine Learning for Drug Discovery Workshop and GeneDisco Challenge, Friday 29 April.

• Research on generating a faster iteration and a more personal voice for digital assistants

  Shivam Mehta, doctoral student at the Division of Speech, Music and Hearing, congratulations on winning the Poster exhibition at the EECS Winter Conference.

• New algorithm makes machine learning faster and more accurate

  The algorithm can improve the way smart devices in homes and workplaces work together. By reducing the frequency with which devices need to talk to a server while seamlessly handling different data between devices.

• Phishing will increase with AI – and so will the likelihood of being scammed

  Phishing has been a problem for a long time, both for individuals and businesses. AI and language models like ChatGPT will increase the number of phishing attempts and make them even better. ”Within one to two years, anyone can create personalised scam emails, which will become a significant problem for businesses and individuals. It will be easier to be scammed", says Fredrik Heiding, research assistant at Harvard and PhD student at KTH.

• RPL Summer School 2024