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  • Rocking robot pays tribute to Robyn

    Published Mar 12, 2014

    When a team of mechatronics students built a robot dedicated to Robyn, they didn't expect the pop star to become personally involved. The dancing "Robyt" makes its world debut this week and earns prop...

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  • Trapped by avalanche – saved by an app

    Published Mar 05, 2014

    Save your friend who is buried in an avalanche while waiting for the rescue team to arrive. An app developed at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, makes it possible for skiers with smartphones to find...

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  • New centre to be hub for space research

    Published Feb 27, 2014

    Technologies for extreme conditions, rocket experiments and studies in space tourism. These are some of the activities in store for the new space centre that opens at KTH Royal Institute of Technology...

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  • Cities open up to traffic congestion charging

    Stockholm’s congestion charging program has gained greater public acceptance since it was implemented. (Photo: Vichaya Kiatying-Angsulee)
    Published Feb 26, 2014

    Congestion zone charging is a proven technique for reducing traffic in crowded cities, but such proposals frequently meet with stiff public resistance. Recent studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technol...

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  • Four subjects ranked in the world’s top 50

    Published Feb 26, 2014

    Four subjects at KTH Royal Institute of Technology are ranked among the top 50 worldwide in the latest ratings by QS.

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  • Teaching development aims for open dialog

    Some of the teachers who helped develop the new concept (from left): Dan Borglund, Ulf Carlsson, Stefan Hallström and Mikael Nybacka. (Photo: Marc Femenia)
    Published Feb 25, 2014

    A new initiative at KTH Royal Institute of Technology aims for more individualized teacher development, by building on evaluations by their students.

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  • Lightning harnessed to protect grid components

    Published Feb 24, 2014

    The foes of power grids everywhere, lightning and other high voltage currents now can help utilities track the health of components throughout their systems.

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  • Platform would outwit cyber criminals

    Products with verifiable security claims will be more highly valued as mobility increases. (Photo: Frank Gärtner)
    Published Feb 24, 2014

    As smartphone use surges, consumers are just beginning to realise their devices are not quite as secure as they thought. A Swedish research team is working on a way to secure mobile operating systems ...

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  • Sandvik and KTH deepen, expand cooperation

    Sandvik CEO Olof Faxander and KTH President Peter Gudmundson at the signing of the strategic partnership agreement. (Photo: Jann Lipka)
    Published Feb 23, 2014

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Sandvik have deepened and broadened their cooperation through a recent strategic partnership agreement. The aim of the agreement is to achieve enhanced capacity f...

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  • Mathematician sees tie between knots and cyber security

    The directions for knot L-583, pictured, are written as "WTTWTWWUTWWWU" in the formal language of the Tie Knot Generator, created by KTH mathematician Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson. (Photo: Yi Qing/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0)
    Published Feb 19, 2014

    Bored with the Windsor knot? It turns out there are 177,147 alternatives for knotting a necktie, according to a formula created by a mathematician from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. What began as...

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  • Researcher helps characters get their lines right

    A still from a demonstration movie made with Plotagon, an animation app for desktop that uses speech technology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. (Photo: courtesy of Plotagon)
    Published Feb 10, 2014

    A new movie-making app uses technology developed at KTH to literally put the words in the characters’ mouths.

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  • Deans Forum focuses on the future

    At the Deans Forum hosted by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, leaders from the world's top technical universities gathered to exchange ideas about meeting society's challenges in the future. (Photo: Håkan Lindgren)
    Published Feb 07, 2014

    How do we together create engineering that can meet the challenges of the future?

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  • KTH is 27th most international university worldwide

    Published Feb 04, 2014

    KTH’s international profile is among the strongest in the world of higher education, according to a prestigious ranking that was just released.

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  • Study illuminates how humans digest fibre

    Humans owe their ability to digest fibre to a newly-discovered sequence of genes in a species of gut microbiota called Bacteroides ovatus, pictured here. (Photo: Dr. Eric Martens, University of Michigan)
    Published Jan 30, 2014

    New insight into how gut bacteria digest fibre could lead to advances in areas as diverse as health and environmentally-friendly biofuels.

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  • KTH among top universities invited into company-building program

    Published Jan 22, 2014

    KTH student start-ups now have a chance for support that is available to only a select group of universities in Europe.

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  • Life-saving shoes

    Published Jan 14, 2014

    Positioning technology developed at KTH will save lives and protect emergency responders in hazardous environments.

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  • Empowering people on social networks

    Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Assistant Professor in Communications Networks at KTH, is coordinator for the iSocial project. (Photo: Marie Androv Broms)
    Published Jan 07, 2014

    Social networks have changed the world. Now they need to be changed. A KTH researcher is part of an international project to improve privacy on the web.

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  • KTH researchers predict an exciting 2014

    Published Dec 30, 2013

    New year, new scientific discoveries. The overarching goal of KTH's development plan is to create a brighter future. But how do researchers make this a reality in their day-to-day work? We asked eight...

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  • Supercomputer opens doors to the universe

    Published Dec 27, 2013

    The muffled rumble from the fans that cool the super computers is deafening. Data is processed here 24 hours a day, all year round, with a capacity that is hard to grasp.

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  • Nobel economics laureate talks about 'good society'

    Published Dec 19, 2013

    “The financial system has its flaws, but it’s necessary for our civilization. It would be much worse without it.”

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