A hovering vacuum cleaner powered by artificial intelligence was among the cutting-edge inventions at the University of Brighton’s Product Design showcase. VacHumme, created by student Tom Harding, is an almost fully automated ‘dusting drone’. It operates via an AI mapping function and is designed to fly around a single room, cleaning every surface it can reach. 

  The NEXT project has successfully engineered a new approach to pancreatic islet transplantation using biomimetic nanomaterials, providing hope to type-1 diabetes patients across the world. The perspective of lifetime drug administration or insulin infusion is, to say the least, demoralising.