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He helps companies support companies during the crisis
Published Nov 06, 2020This spring, Emil Berlin, an alumnus from the programme Design and Product Development (MMK), and his colleagues launched the "Håll Sverige igång" initiative, in which companies helped other companies...
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Thesis hot topic in politicians’ social media
Published Oct 19, 2020"It is cheaper to own an electric car than a petrol-driven car." If you think you’ve seen this headline recently, you’re right: the research of Jens Hagman from KTH's Machine Design has made headlines...
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Now Machine design is corona safe(r)
Published Aug 26, 2020The students are largely back on campus. But the corona pandemic is not over. How do you minimize the risk of infection when on-site education starts up again? At the department of Machine Design (MMK...
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Smartwatches tell us how to design cities
Published May 20, 2020Smartwatches can be a low cost, effective tool in collecting data on how people are affected by different environments when planning and designing a city.
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Students show smart products during digital "Kexpo"
Published May 13, 2020A vacuum cleaner that takes very little space, a harness for figure skaters and a ladder for stairs - these are some of the student projects at this year's "Kexpo", an exhibition that this year will g...
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Sensors improve life for amputees
Published Jan 15, 202035 percent of the amputees reject prosthetics because they are too uncomfortable. By placing connected sensors in the prosthetic sockets, KTH will optimize the users' prostheses and also save large so...
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Mechatronics & Embedded Systems HK 2019
Published Dec 06, 2019All are warmly welcome to the Presentations and/or the Demos by our Mechatronics and Embedded Systems advanced course students.
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Competence center will make edge computing trustworthy
Published Aug 28, 2019The accelerating digitalization and its growing amount of data puts internet under severe pressure. A new competence center, led by KTH, will work on “edge computing”, making systems at the edge of in...
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Mobile in bed increases stress
Published Aug 27, 2019Having trouble putting your mobile phone down when in bed? You are not alone. However, our smartphone use in bed often increases stress and gives us sleeping disorders.
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New center for Edge computing
Published Jul 17, 2019On 18 June, KTH and Martin Törngren got green light to start a new competence center for Edge computing.
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Successful summer school on Cyber Physical Systems
Published Jun 17, 2019Participants from all over Europe came to KTH to learn more about and discuss Trustworthy Highly Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) at a summer school arranged by KTH and Halmstad University the ...
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“They say I talk before I think”
Published Jun 12, 2019On July 1, in the middle of the summer, Martin Edin Grimheden takes over as Head of the Department of Machine Design after Sofia Ritzén. We met with Martin to ask about his newest challenge.
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Auto2: Steps towards terrain automation
Published Dec 14, 2018KTH Mechatronics together with Skogforsk, Komatsu, SLU, LTU, UMIT, Unibap AB, eXtractor AB, BAE Hägglunds, Skogsteknisk klustret, Sveaskog, SCA, Holmen, Strora Enso, BillerudKorsnäs and Södra have bee...
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Mechatronics & Embedded Systems Student Projects
Published Dec 06, 2018In December each year, future engineers from KTH's Mechatronics and Embedded Systems Masters programmes showcase how they look at the future in the form of a series of imaginative student projects.
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Launching the KTH Transport Challenge!
Published Feb 22, 2018We are lucky to have such a lovely campus, but it takes time to get from one end to the other. Many of us have lectures and meetings in different buildings throughout the day. Think how much more pr...
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Machine Design researchers have solved a serious train problem
Published Oct 05, 2017Many train wagons equipped with a new type of brake blocks have had serious problems in winter traffic. There have been several media reports, for example including Sweden's television (SVT). Brake bl...
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5th Scandinavian Conference on System & Software Safety
Published Mar 15, 2017System and software safety in electronic systems is becoming increasingly central in many industries. The systems become ever more complex and the software continues to grow. Some industries are quite...
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Study: Why do trains slip and wear in winter?
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KTH Machine Design in SVT on developing future vehicles
Published Oct 05, 2016Right now there is a research project in progress on future climate-smart transportation between KTH and Botkyrka county. This means that selected units within the county may use electric vehicles for...
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Using goals to support innovation
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