Immune Systems for Electronics

October 6th, 2008

The human body has an immune system which fights off bacteria and helps heal us when things go wrong. Could you imagine electronic devices doing the same for themselves? Researchers at the University of the West of England are to carry out ground breaking research with collaborators from the University of York* that will try to create electronic systems that will not only diagnose, but fix their own faults.

The SABRE (Self-healing cellular Architectures for Biologically-inspired highly Reliable Electronic systems) project. The part of the project to be carried out in Bristol will be based at Bristol Robotics lab (BRL), which is jointly run by the University of Bristol and UWE. Grab your ipods and relax under the sun while you read about this fascinating technology here.