A former principal mechanical engineer from a leading UK prosthetics firm has achieved notable advancements in creating more comfortable, functional, and affordable upper limb prosthetics through Heriot-Watt University's DeepTech LaunchPad programme.

A ground-breaking research project at Heriot-Watt University is set to be commercialised with funding from Scottish Enterprise’s (SE) High Growth Spinout Programme. The project, which has developed an advanced camera technology with consistent, full colour, HD resolution at millions of frames per second (Mfps), is set to revolutionise how biomedical science, engineering, and combustion research is conducted.

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have reported they are one step closer to technology that could result in electrons being replaced with photons, solving the looming ‘speed limit’ for electronic gadgets. According to Dr Marcello Ferrera, an assistant professor in Photonics and Optics at Heriot-Watt, electronics have had such long-term success mainly due to how much smaller devices have become, and how robust they are, even wh...

Often the primary barrier to technology is the gap between innovation and the ability to commercialise those inventions. However, a toolkit has been introduced by the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) and researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh to help bridge that gap.

  Scientists at Heriot-Watt University are part of a consortium of experts delivering a human-robotics hybrid solution for the maintenance and operation of offshore wind farms.