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Drones for search and rescue missions, as modern carrier pigeons and for inspecting critical infrastructure.

In the MueGen Driving project, researchers from the Institute of Automotive Engineering at TU Graz studied how gender and age influence our trust in driver assistance systems.

Wood is a trendy material - and not only in the music scene (thanks to the 257ers) but also in the construction sector.

The aim of the new CD Laboratory, a joint project between TU Graz and Mechatronics Systems - an SME from Styria, is to make use of electrical energy in auxiliary drives and household appliances as efficiently as possible.

TU Graz student Philipp Rouschal on experiences at the TU Austria Innovation Marathon. The aim is to develop unfamiliar new ideas, throw new light on a problem, and bravely ask new questions.

Approximately 45 researchers will work in the Pro2Future - Products and Production Systems of the Future - Competence Centre from 2017, for which funds in an amount of EUR 19 million have been approved.

Unique worldwide and made in Austria: TU Graz is strengthening the field of production technology with a new grinding machine for engines and drive components to the value of 1 million euros.

Optimal interaction between building envelope and structure and building systems is a key aspect in realising sustainable buildings.

"Advanced Manufacturing" is the digital revolution in the workshop. It is reason, that products with very specific features can now be produced at all.

Materials research as a foundation for innovative products. More than 1,200 experts in high-performance materials of the future are coming to Graz for the THERMEC convention starting on 29 May.

Eight companies, eight topics, eight interdisciplinary student teams make eight innovative solution concepts for real tasks from industry at the Product Innovation Project 2016 of TU Graz.

Patents, prizes and a start-up: A project by TU Graz and the RCPE about disinfection using the effects of light has far-reaching impacts.

Bees, seashells and sunflowers - these are just a few examples from nature which could serve as models for the design of factories of the future.

Basic research in the practice-oriented discipline of architecture is gaining importance at TU Graz.

Paper is a sophisticated material. It has to satisfy many partly conflicting demands all at the same time, covering the full range from industrial printing to its use as a packaging material.

For the first time, a strategic concept for international activities in research and teaching has been developed at the TU Wien.

A new, extremely thin kind of light detectors was created at Vienna University of Technology. Two very different technologies were combined for the first time: metamaterials and quantum cascade structures.

Whether it is diagnostic imaging, analysis of unknown substances or ultrafast communication - terahertz radiation sources are becoming more and more important.

A completely autonomous quadcopter has been designed at the Vienna University of Technology. All the required computing power is provided by an off-the-shelf smartphone.

Some European inland waterways are presently utilized way below their theoretical carrying capacity.

Graphene is a material which has great hopes resting on it - especially in communications technology but also in the construction of very light, stable structures and batteries.

Physicist Karsten Held from the Vienna University of Technology has been awarded with an ERC Grant from the European Research Council for his research in quantum mechanical materials science.

Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Praha and Wien form a Central European quintet of metropolises with exceptionally high living standards.

X-ray photography has been used for decades for medical purposes. Now, scientists have found new ways of obtaining precise and comprehensive data from x-ray computer tomography.

Pacific Controls and the Vienna University of Technology are developing an "internet of things". Automatic communication between electronic devices and infrastructures can save money and energy.