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  • Building the supergrid

    Published May 21, 2013

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology researchers are helping to ensure that the power grids of the future meet the new demands created by renewable energy.

  • Pop Star Robyn lights up KTH lab project

    Published May 14, 2013

    When a group of third- and fourth-year mechatronics students began designing a dancing robot inspired by Robyn, the Swedish singer took a keen interest in the project.

  • Revealing the secrets of the human voice

    Published May 13, 2013

    A model of the human voice, which is being built at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, could lead to better voice care, voice prosthetics, talking robots and teaching opportunities.

  • A noteworthy app

    Published May 02, 2013

    Need some instant musical notation to remember that little tune you just came up with? A new mobile app – created by a Computer Science engineer from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and a professor from KMH Royal College of Music – makes it possible to score any melody instantly and share it.

  • For Spotify founder, innovation combines science and art

    Published Apr 24, 2013

    He has been called the saviour of the recording industry. In any case, Daniel Ek’s creation, Spotify, has made an enormous selection of the world’s recorded music available on computers and mobile phones. On Monday, the Spotify founder visited KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

  • Battery low? Give your mobile some water

    Published Apr 18, 2013

    A power source for your mobile phone can now be as close as the nearest faucet, stream, or even a puddle, with the world’s first water-activated charging device.

  • Cheap and quick HIV testing made possible with DVD scanners

    Published Apr 17, 2013

    Video streaming and USB sticks have rendered DVD players are all but obsolete. But their cheap optics may find a new life in a cost-effective and speedy technique for on-the-spot HIV/AIDS testing and other analytics.

  • E-health made easier – and more comfortable

    Published Apr 16, 2013

    The future of health care could be found in a tiny, paper-thin skin patch that collects vital information. The Bio-patch sensor developed by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology is inexpensive, versatile and, best of all, comfortable to wear.

  • UAE delegation visits InnoEnergy at KTH

    Published Apr 15, 2013

    A delegation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will visit KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s InnoEnergy innovation centre on Tuesday, April 16.

  • Professor is nominated for European Inventor of the Year

    Published Apr 12, 2013

    Pyrosequencing pioneer Pål Nyrén, a professor of Biochemistry at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, has been nominated for the 2013 European Inventor of the Year Award by the European Patent Office.

  • Students see promise in technology's convergence with performing arts

    Published Apr 11, 2013

    While an American audience watches this weekend's encore performance of the world’s first crowdsourced ballet, a pair of undergraduate students halfway around the globe are paying even closer attention.

  • Astronaut’s radiation study will be critical for Mars mission

    Published Apr 09, 2013

    As space exploration inches closer to Mars, research into space radiation will become increasingly critical, says ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang, who was introduced yesterday as the new head of the Aerospace Engineering master’s programme at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

  • The machine that can paint your feelings

    Published Apr 08, 2013

    Are you feeling excited? Metaphone is a machine that captures your emotions and paints an image that expresses them. The use of biodata to interact with technology and to facilitate communication between people is a field that’s becoming ever hotter.

  • KTH duo realizing vision for Russian tech centre

    Published Apr 03, 2013

    They regularly shuttle between meetings in Boston and Moscow, and stay in constant contact with teams on both sides of the Atlantic; but the pay-off for Mats Hanson and Kristina Edström is seeing a new university take shape.

  • The sound of innovation

    Published Mar 28, 2013

    As students at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, their aspirations may have been "slightly delusional"; but today Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss oversee a Web start-up – SoundCloud – that reaches 180 million internet users monthly.

  • U.S. manufacturers rank 3D printing innovation among top 10

    Published Mar 27, 2013

    Nano-scale 3D printing research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology has been named one of 10 innovations to watch by the U.S.-based Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

  • Magnetic nano-droplet discovery presents opportunities for telecommunications

    Published Mar 20, 2013

    A team that includes researchers from KTH has successfully created a magnetic soliton – a spin torque-generated nano-droplet that could lead to technological innovation in such areas as mobile telecommunications.

  • Cash prize for polymer pioneers

    Published Mar 15, 2013

    Mercene Labs has won the 2013 Ingemar Croon Award from KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Greenhouse Labs. The pioneering firm founded in 2012 is behind an advanced polymer solution with great potential.

  • Making fuel from bacteria

    Published Mar 13, 2013

    In the search for the fuels of tomorrow, KTH researchers are finding inspiration in the sea. Not in offshore oil wells, but in the water where blue-green algae thrive.

  • Tunnel vision: let there be light

    Published Mar 06, 2013

    For transportation authorities looking to reduce operation costs, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Or, in the case of Sweden, the light is inside the tunnel.