Tan Eng King – Asian Scientist Magazine

What It Takes To Win The Student Cluster Competition

We catch up with the team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, that scored a record-breaking win at the SC17 Student Cluster Competition.

Technology

A Glue That’s Sticky Even Under Water

A team of Korean researchers have developed adhesives that allow for reversible binding when wet.

Technology

An Energy-Efficient Chip For Tiny Vision Systems

This novel video feature extractor uses 20 times less power than existing chips and could reduce the size of untethered vision systems down to the millimeter range.

Features

Singapore’s Next Lap: Interview With A*STAR’s Dr Benjamin Seet

Precision medicine and digital healthcare are likely to be emphasized in the upcoming R&D budget, says Dr. Benjamin Seet, executive director of the A*STAR Biomedical Research Council.

Hello, World! Meet 10 Made-In-Asia Robots

Here in tech-crazy Asia, robots occupy a special place in our hearts, homes and workplaces.

Caring Cyborgs

Robots may be good at following instructions, but could they also be our companions and caregivers?

HUBO To The Rescue

Grace Chua speaks to Professor Oh Jun Ho of KAIST to find out how DRC-HUBO beat 22 other robots to emerge the winner of the 2015 DARPA robotics challenge.

The AI Spring Is Coming

Hon Hsiao-Wuen, managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, is excited about AI and robots, and explains why you should be too.

How To Win The Nobel Prize Of Supercomputing

Winning the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing requires a team effort, says Professor Fu Haohuan, a member of the 12-man team that won the competition in 2016.

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