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Other Nottingham events

Rise of the Machines

Please note this event takes place on the first floor via a narrow staircase.
Past event - 2018
16 May Doors 7pm
Event 7.30-10:00pm
Bunker's Hill, 36-38 Hockley,
Nottingham NG1 1FP
Sold Out!
In the modern age, we seem ever dependant on machines no matter how complex, simple, small or large, to carry out our day to day tasks. However, some may feel that this trend may cause more damage than we expect, slowly diving towards the notorious ‘singularity’. For this, we have enlisted 3 experts to tackle this complex, yet exciting, topic to provide answers to the mechanised world.

Building an electric superbike

Louis Flanagan (PhD student)
A summary of what goes into making the UoN electric Isle of Man TT racer. This talk goes into a medium level of detail about the technologies such as Lithium polymer batteries, PMAC motors, motorcycle chassis dynamics, and racing in general. Much of the design and detail is applicable to current electric vehicle development and will give an insight into just how the automotive world is adapting to electrification.

Design across the scales with 3D printing: from molecules to active devices.

Dr. Victor Sans Sangorrin (Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering)
Victor will present recent efforts to develop integrated bottom-up and top-down approaches to 3D printing that combine molecular and macroscopic functionalities for applications such as antimicrobial devices. Chemists are very good at designing functional molecules, but it’s hard to make functional materials with real-world applications. On the other hand, engineers are very good at designing macroscopic devices to solve problems, but they are limited in the materials they have available. 3D printing offers the opportunity to bridge the gap between these two worlds.

Chatty Factories – Robots and humans producing together

Dr. David Branson (Assistant Professor)
Dr Branson is the Director of the Nottingham Advanced Robotics Laboratory (NARLy) within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham. While robots were once looked forward to as the future of manufacturing and domestic bliss, more recent news coverage speaks of them as life and job destroyers. Dr Branson will talk about these changes in opinion, how robots and their inclusion in our lives will actually create new opportunities and improve quality of life and how we humans might adapt to these changes.
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