Researchers I. Must and K. Valdur have created a robot leg modelled after the leg of a cucumber spider. A soft robot was created in cooperation with the Italian Institute of Technology
The Young Scientist Award was given to Associate Professor in Genetics Hedvig Tamman and the Young IT Scientist Award to Head of Applied Natural Language Processing Liisa Rätsep.
Andres Metspalu, Professor of Genomics and Biobanking and Professor of Biotechnology was elected a member of the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology section of Academia Europaea.
Birute Klaas-Lang was elected as the academy research professor in Estonian language and its teaching and Meelis Kull as the academy research professor in artificial intelligence.
A new study published in Nature Communications sheds light on the genetic adaptations of Papua New Guineans in response to their unique environmental pressures.
ADHD is often accompanied by a range of health problems in patients. Researchers at the UT found that this is also true for people who are at high genetic risk of developing ADHD.