Self-driving cars that perform complex maneuvers, such as parking or keeping the lane, without the intervention of a human operator: The development of such vehicles is the project of a new European research consortium. The legal implications of the new technology are explored by the research center "RobotRecht", which is led by legal scholar Eric Hilgendorf.
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Bavaria‐wide Africa initiative launched
02/06/2014Many Bavarian universities do research activities in Africa and cooperate with African partners there. In a new network, they now want to bundle their activities and to develop, link and communicate them in public. This network was solemnly founded in Bayreuth.
morePioneers from India
02/05/2014
They did not get a culture shock; the only thing giving them a hard time is the weather. Six Indian scholarship holders are currently on a two-month visit to the University of Würzburg. They are the first Indian students to undertake the journey to the West under the "New Passage to India" program.
moreBees, birds, and bats make a huge contribution to the higher yields produced by coffee farmers around Mount Kilimanjaro – an example of how biodiversity can pay off.
moreSearch for clues in the flounder genome
02/02/2014What does the Chinese flounder have in common with a bird? They have both developed the same mechanism for determining sex over the course of evolution, and have done so completely independently of one another. This is the recent discovery made by an international team of scientists with Würzburg involvement.
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