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Data mining the High Court

How can we make courts more efficient while retaining a just judicial system? Law Professor Anita Stuhmcke and Senior Lecturer Pam Stewart are mining data from High Court decisions to find out.

Reducing carbon and increasing productivity

Four years ago, The Australian Alliance to Save Energy (A2SE), together with the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, initiated the annual Australian Summer Study on Energy Productivity, to ensure energy productivity remained a top priority on the national and international agenda.

Haru the endearing robot sparks joy

Remember the cute robot from the 2008 Pixar film WALL-E? The reality of a robot companion with emotional expression might not be such a far-off fantasy, after researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and the Honda Research Institute (HRI) collaborated to design a personal robot with the explicit intention of ‘bringing joy’.

The cost of birth

Childbirth is the most common reason for hospital admission in Australia. Understanding the costs involved is a crucial component of health care policy that impacts how and where women give birth.

3D-printed ‘mini hearts’ may hold COVID clues

Australian researchers who have been working on 3D-printed ‘mini hearts’ to repair damage from cardiovascular disease are refocusing their efforts to help address the immediate threat of COVID-19 to patients with underlying heart disease.