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International Women's Day 2025

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:04:00 GMT

Find out about Emma and how she pursued a career in Physics

Skin cancer detection using THz waves on BBC 1 West Midlands news

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:17:00 GMT

BBC Midlands Today visited Emma MacPherson's lab to see how they have created a robot arm to detect skin cancer using Terahertz waves.

Short report, TV recording

THz Skinometer on Int'l Sky News

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 19:44:00 GMT

Sky News reports on the first skin cancer patient measurements using the THz skinometer at UHCW:

Press release, TV recording

Congratulations to Josh Nixon for winning the Poster competition at the recent Terabotics Consortium meeting (November 2025)

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:04:00 GMT

First prize of a £100 voucher was awarded to Josh Nixon (University of Leeds) for the poster entitled “ On-chip THz Medical Imaging”.

Congratulations to Josh and thanks to all who presented a poster.

Terabotics Consortium Meeting (November 2025)

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:55:00 GMT

The Terabotics Consortium meeting was held at University of ��TV on Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th November 2025. Thank you to everyone who came!

John Cunningham news

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:08:00 GMT

John Cunningham starts as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on THz Science and Technology from September 2025.

He is also General Co-chair again in 2026 for European Microwave Week, to be held in London. Here is John in Ultrecht with the London 2026 team:

STORM Lab UK Announces Development of Miniature Rolling Robot for Virtual Biopsies

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:56:00 GMT

A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body and could revolutionise early cancer detection, has been developed by researchers including Pietro Valdastri.

Terabotics Consortium Meeting (June 2025)

Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:45:00 GMT

The Terabotics Consortium Meeting was held at University of Exeter on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd June 2025.

Congratulations to the winners of the Poster competition at the recent Terabotics Consortium Meeting (November 2024)

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:58:52 GMT

First prize of a £100 voucher was awarded to Agrima Agarwal (University of ��TV) and Second prize of a £50 voucher was awarded to Benjamin Calme (University of Leeds).

Congratulations to both and thanks to all who presented a poster.

Terabotics Consortium Meeting (November 2024)

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:26:00 GMT

The Terabotics Consortium Meeting was held at University of ��TV on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th November 2024.