Innovating with data and technology
Discover the world-leading digital, data and technological research that’s advancing how we view our world.
Why Bristol?
Designing robotic swarms
How can animal behaviour help us design revolutionary technologies like cancer-detecting robots? A team of University of Bristol researchers led by Sabine Hauert, Professor of Swarm Engineering, are exploring intricate animal swarm behaviours to create robotic systems that work collectively.
Revolutionising semiconductor technology
The University of Bristol is at the forefront of semiconductor research, home to a new £11m Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) REWIRE. Partnering with Universities of Cambridge and Warwick, and industry leaders like Oxford Instruments and Bosch, REWIRE is developing next generation ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors essential for achieving net zero and advancing electric vehicle technology.
Research in action
Digitised borders
We tend to imagine borders as physical objects—walls, barbed wire, features of the landscape like The Channel, an officer in a booth. But today’s borders are digitised. Future borders will be ‘efficient, smart, and responsive’ thanks to biometrics, facial recognition software and fully digital records of immigration status. But as sociodigital technologies, whose futures are they playing out?
Reimagining the role of cryptography
Dr. Chloe Martindale, specialises in cryptography. In this article she explains that whilst current cryptography is doing a good job of encrypting our data online and keeping it safe - there is a new technology on the horizon that will render existing cryptographic protocols useless. That technology is quantum.
