By improving how unmanned ground vehicles see and navigate complex, cluttered construction sites, automation is set to transform tasks like site mapping and monitoring.

In a major milestone for the field of neurotechnology, the Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP), a revolutionary wireless brain implant that bypasses the retina and optic nerves to connect directly to the brain’s visual cortex to provide artificial vision, has been successfully surgically implanted in the ICVP study’s third participant. This surgery, performed at Rush University Medical Center, underscores the scalability and robustness of the system, marking a new chapter in advancing vision restoration for individuals with total blindness. The ICVP system was developed by a multi-institution team led by Philip R. Troyk and represents the culmination of nearly three decades of Illinois Tech research dedicated to ultimately providing artificial sight to those with blindness due to eye disease or trauma.

Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have developed a new cloud collaboration platform (InvizCrypt) that offers true privacy, giving users much stronger control over who can access their sensitive data and documents. 

The InvizCrypt platform, developed by Professor Hitesh Tewari and colleagues from Trinity’s School of Computer Science and Statistics and ADAPT at Trinity College Dublin, is designed to allow users to collaborate on sensitive documents while preventing the platform provider from reading the content. The global cloud productivity market exceeds $50 billion annually, for healthcare, legal, financial, and public-sector organisations, underlining the potential significance of this innovation.