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  • What will happen when art and music are increasingly created by AI?

    Photo of a painting depicting a half-figured person.
    The portrait painting “Edmond de Belamy” is seen as a breakthrough for AI created art (image is cropped). (Photo: Obvious)
    Published Dec 21, 2020

    Our computers are taking over a larger part of the creative effort that goes into creating art, articles and music. This brings with it a number of ne...

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  • Collaboration behind unique AI-program

    AI and machinelearning is focus in an unique contract education that KTH and Ericsson developped together. (Photo: Istock)
    Published Dec 21, 2020

    KTH has joined forces with Ericsson to develop a unique contract education program within Machine Learning and AI. Right now, 30 Ericsson engineers ar...

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  • 'I never imagined working in the music industry'

    Nitin playing the guitar during his master's presentation.
    Nitin Kulkarni using a guitar to demonstrate an audio processor during his master's thesis presentation. (Photo: Sharan Yagneswar)
    Published Nov 16, 2020

    For two master's students, the Embedded Systems programme at KTH opened up some unexpected doors.

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  • Lightning fast implementation of alumnus´master´s thesis about smart charging of electric vehicles

    Jacob Dalton is sitting at his office in front of his computer, giving a thumb´s up.
    Jacob Dalton wrote a master´s thesis on smart charging of electric vehicles. The solution has been implemented by the electricity company Tibber, where he´s now employed. Photo: Tibber
    Published Sep 01, 2020

    Two years ago Jacob Dalton completed a master´s thesis proposing how household charging of electric vehicles can be used to stabilize the power grid. ...

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  • A new material takes shape – all by itself

    Produce packaging could be one of the first areas where research scientists’ Robotic Matter is used.
    Published Jun 24, 2020

    Remember the T-1000 robot from Terminator 2? It could change form into anything at all, including a human being. The microrobots in the animated featu...

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  • Newsmakers at KTH

    Published Jun 15, 2020

    Who has received what when it comes to funding? What findings, results and researchers have attracted attention outside KTH? Under the vignette Newsma...

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  • How the brain’s connections change according to age

    Changes in the entire brain (left) and hippocampus (middle) are evident in these images shot during the course of a mouse's life. Green shows the protein PSD95 and cyan is the protein SAP102.
    Published Jun 15, 2020

    Why do children think and behave differently from adults? Why do we become forgetful in old age? Researchers have shown for the first time how the ...

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  • EECS students won the SAIS Best AI Master's Thesis Award 2020

    Published Jun 07, 2020

    Two students at the Division of Speech, Music and Hearing, Elias Lousseief and Ulme Wennberg, have been awarded with the Swedish AI Society Best AI Ma...

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  • SciBreak develops superfast circuit breakers for the the railway network

    Published May 27, 2020

     SCiBreak, a start-up with roots in Electric Power and Energy Systems at KTH, has been featured in the magazine Ny Teknik. The article focuses on the ...

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  • Visors, sanitizer and fruit donated to healthcare facilities

    Stefan Sundström, caretaker at KTH, unloads chemicals with Tamara Church, a chemistry researcher at Stockholm University.
    Published Apr 07, 2020

    In the midst of the corona virus outbreak, KTH employees are contributing hand sanitizer, protective visors and fruit deliveries to healthcare personn...

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  • KTH researcher awarded large EU grant

    Danica Kragic Jensfelt, Professor of Computer Science, Photo: Håkan Lindgren.
    Published Apr 06, 2020

    It is now clear that Danica Kragic Jensfelt, Professor of Computer Science, is a recipient of the prestigious research grant, the ERC Advanced Grant. ...

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  • Lighter electric cars and aircraft possible with nano-scale electrical relay

    The new relay requires only a tenth of the energy to work, compared with transistors.
    Published Apr 03, 2020

    A KTH research group has developed a nano-scale electromechanical relay that could be used to reduce the weight of electronics in electric cars or eve...

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  • Using ordinary tape, researchers make chip that could speed up drug development

    A chili pepper did what it was expected to do – namely, cause irritation – when tested with the chip-based model of a human gut. The "barrier-on-a-chip" was assembled at low cost with ordinary double-sided tape.
    Published Mar 24, 2020

    With ordinary double-sided tape, a team at KTH assembled a chip-based model of a human gut, and then fed it chili peppers to prove it works. The techn...

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  • New research project on menarche experiences in sports

    Published Mar 24, 2020

    The design research project Menarche Bits explores how digital technologies can make space for young people’s menarche experiences in sports. KTH has ...

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  • Bacteria in the air visualised in hospitals

    Published Mar 16, 2020

    KTH researchers are now using virtual reality (VR) to visualise bacteria in the air. “We visualise particle movement in indoor air and pollutants in ...

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  • The jaundice meter for babies

    The jaundice meter.
    Published Mar 11, 2020

    Every year some 135 million children are born. Well over half, 80 million, suffer from jaundice. This medical condition can, if left untreated, lead t...

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  • Rocket helps KTH researchers study Northern Lights

    Published Mar 11, 2020

    Last week, the SPIDER-2 rocket could finally launch from the Esrange station outside of Kiruna. The rocket, tasked with examining processes within nor...

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  • New technology mimics the body and reduces the amount of animal testing

    Published Jan 28, 2020

    A multiple organ-on-chip platform developed by researchers at KTH and Harvard University could drastically accelerate drug testing. The technology pro...

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  • Aristides Gionis, new Professor in Theoretical Computer Science

    Published Jan 28, 2020

    We are happy to welcome Aristides Gionis who recently joined the Division of Theoretical Computer Science. Aristides Gionis will be working in algorit...

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  • She teaches robots to use the internet

    Published Jan 28, 2020

    Danica Kragic, professor of computer science, has received 47 million from the Swedish Research Council's professor program for research in robotics a...

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