Young people from Barnsley got the chance to make and programme robots from scratch alongside Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro at Sheffield Centre for Robotics. Professor Ishiguro is famous for making cutting edge, human like robots in his own image.
Young people from Barnsley got the chance to make and programme robots from scratch alongside Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro at Sheffield Centre for Robotics. Professor Ishiguro is famous for making cutting edge, human like robots in his own image.
The Peace Gardens turned purple today as people celebrated World Prematurity Day. One in ten babies are born early and the day aims to highlight the issues around premature births.
The sixth annual Sheffield TEDx event took place at St George’s Church this weekend. With video presentations and speakers from Sheffield and around the world, TEDx Sheffield is a forum for sharing ideas of public benefit.
A Health Hack event bought together Patients, Nurses, Doctors, Designers and Engineers to see how pieces of existing technology such as hoists, sipping straws and walking aids could be improved.
Tony Minichiello, coach to Jessica Ennis-Hills, has expressed dismay with athletics provision at the Olympic Legacy Park after the closure of the Don Valley Stadium, in an interview for Talking Sheffield on Sheffield Live! TV. Minichiello said: “I don’t think the investment is going into the athletics side.”
The Public were invited to an unveiling of the Olympic Legacy Park development plans. The park is to due to be built on the site of The Don Valley Stadium and will become the new home to Sheffield Eagles and The Sheffield Sharks.
Local Councillors have voiced concerns about the Governments continued support of HS2 going to Meadowhall instead of into of a Sheffield City centre location. The journey would be around 6 minutes longer if the train came in to town but would create about six thousand more jobs.
Nick Clegg, MP for Hallam, launched Tech North in Sheffield this week. Over 200,000 people are working in the creative and technical industries in the North. The scheme aims to see this number doubled.
Radiographers went on strike for the first time in over 30 years. The half day strike is the latest in a number of stoppages by NHS workers to get a one percent pay rise this year. NHS workers have only had one increase in the last 5 years.
Sheffield is the first place to have a dedicated forensic autopsy unit in the UK. The flagship service enables postmortems to be carried out with the use of a mouse instead of a knife. At the present time there is an additional cost attached to this service.
Charlotte Reid reports for Sheffield Live!