Vienna University of Technology

​You've no doubt seen string art before – it consists of images created by running thread between pins on a board. Well, scientists at Austria's Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have recently created an algorithm that allows a robot to recreate existing images in string-art form.

Engineers at the Vienna University of Technology foresee a future where platforms 100 m long and covered with solar panels float on even heavy seas thanks to a new floatation system called Heliofloat.

Austrian scientists have developed a new kind of 3D display designed especially for large-scale screens that doesn't require special glasses but, instead, sends beams of light directly to the viewers’ eyes via a laser and a sophisticated mirror system.

There probably aren't many domed concrete structures where you live, and there's a reason for that – they're difficult to build. Now, however, scientists have devised a system that allows concrete shell structures to simply be "inflated" and cinched together with a steel cable.

Team Austria (Vienna University of Technology) has been announced the overall winner of Solar Decathlon 2013 after the closest competition in the history of the event. Second place went to University of Nevada Las Vegas, with the Czech Technical University achieving third place overall.

Researchers at Austria's Vienna University of Technology have developed a virtual reality gaming system known as the Virtualizer. It allows players to walk on the spot in the real world, causing their character to walk across the ground in the game.

EADS Innovation Works and Vienna University of Technology have reported that the first test flights of their thermoelectric Energy Harvesting Modules have been carried out on an Airbus aircraft.

Vienna University of Technology have developed a 3D laser printing process that works on a microscopic scale.

Researchers in Vienna have created a prototype 3D printer, that's small and inexpensive enough to perhaps someday become a consumer item.