30 January 2026 Letting the Brain Help the Body — with AI and Brain Signals Every year, millions of people suffer a stroke. Many are left with lasting motor impairments that make everyday life difficult — and in severe cases, impossible. Traditional rehabilitation helps, but ...
27 January 2026 When Wires Meet Wireless: How bridging TSN and 5G could unlock the next era of industrial automation Picture this: a surgeon operates a robotic arm from another continent. An excavator digs a tunnel with no one inside. A swarm of factory robots choreographs itself in milliseconds. None of this works ...
27 January 2026 Should AI and Humans Share Responsibility? Your self-driving car crashes. An AI denies your loan. A trading algorithm loses millions. Who do we blame? New research from Mälardalen University challenges the idea that there's always "one person ...
19 December 2025 Your Car Has Secrets: A New Way to Catch Hackers Before They Catch You When unlocking wirelessly, your car and key exchange a secret handshake. Every time your phone connects to the dashboard, another digital conversation begins. Your vehicle is constantly communicating ...
17 December 2025 Teaching factories to fight back A single cyberattack on a power grid can leave millions in the dark. A compromised water treatment plant could poison a city. As our factories and infrastructure grow smarter, they also grow more vuln...
5 December 2025 Your Smart Devices Could Fail When Seconds Matter – Here’s How Researchers Plan to Stop It Imagine your car’s emergency braking system or a factory’s safety sensor failing because a message arrived too late. This is not science fiction—it’s a real risk in today’s Internet of Things (IoT) wo...
9 October 2025 Hard Hats Meet Smart Tech: Building Greener, Smarter Construction Sites The construction industry is the backbone of economic growth and a key driver of social development. It generates nearly 9% of Europe’s GDP and provides 18 million direct jobs. But as cities grow and ...
8 October 2025 IndTech Industrial PhD.School What is IndTech The Industrial Technology Industrial PhD School (INDTECH) and its continuation, INDTECH PLUS, includes 20 students employed by partner organizations while pursuing PhD studies at MD...
8 October 2025 MARC (Mälardalen University Automation Research Center) The research profile Mälardalen University Automation Research Center (MARC) is dedicated to advancing digitalisation and automation in industry through a comprehensive approach involving multiple res...
8 October 2025 "Your Smart Home Could Be Hacked—But Researchers are working on how to Keep it Safe" Imagine your smart thermostat turning your home into a sauna—or your water system flooding your basement—all because of a cyberattack. As our homes, cities, and industries become increasingly conne...
8 October 2025 "Can a Robot Replace Your Programmer? ChatGPT Is Trying—And It's Surprisingly Good at It" Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a buzzword—it’s writing code. Researchers at Mälardalen University in Sweden and the University of L’Aquila in Italy have put ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot,...
8 October 2025 "The Rise of the Computing Continuum for a Smarter World" From Cloud Confusion to Seamless Intelligence Ever wondered why your smart phone lags or why your smart home system sometimes fails to sync? The answer lies in how our devices talk to the internet—and researchers across Europe are working on a bl...
8 October 2025 "From Napkin Sketches to Smart Software: How to Embrace Flexibility?" Ever sketched an idea on a napkin and thought, “This could be something big”? Turns out, that’s not far from how software engineers often begin designing complex systems. But often, those informal ...
19 June 2025 Invisible Lanes, Visible Solutions: Revolutionising Road Safety with AI New research enhances lane detection for autonomous vehicles Researchers from Mälardalen University have developed a groundbreaking method to enhance lane detection for autonomous vehicles, even u...
19 June 2025 Smart Kitchens: How AI is Making Cooking Safer for the Elderly New AI research is making our homes safer Researchers from Mälardalen University and the University of Greifswald have developed a cutting-edge system to enhance kitchen activity recognition, aimed...
19 June 2025 5G Gets Smarter: Building Trust in Tomorrow’s Networks New research helps make next-gen networks more reliable and ready for real-world use 5G is here , and it promises a lot: lightning-fast speeds, ultra-low latency, and smart connectivity for everythin...
19 June 2025 Developing software intensive industrial systems: Bridging the Gap Between Industry and Academia New research challenges the way industrial systems are developed
19 June 2025 Coordinated Intelligence: How Smart Systems Working Together Shape the Future New research explores how autonomous systems collaborate to solve real-world problems
3 April 2025 Trustworthy and Human-Centered Test Automation (TAHCTA) Trustworthy and Human-Centered Test Automation(TAHCTA) is a project aimed at making automated software testing more reliable, transparent, and aligned with human values. It integrates human reasoning...
3 April 2025 Development of an AI-Based Trusted Smart System for Cardiovascular Health Monitoring (TSS CARDIO) Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major global health challenge that requires early detection and continuous monitoring for effective treatment. Globally, in 2021, approximately 20.5 million people di...
