As part of the much-anticipated visit from members of the Czech senate, leaders from diverse fields and business representatives paid a visit on September 2nd to NARLab’s Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI) and National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) in Hsinchu city. Among them were Vice-president Dr. Havlas and Dr. SychROVá from Czech Academy of Sciences, the president of the Brothers of Mercy Hospital in Brno, and many other delegates.

This summer saw the Secret Base of Scientists exhibition, a collaboration between National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs), the Ministry of Science and Technology and National Chung Hsing University, opened to the public free of charge. The event took place on the Chung Hsing University campus from the 14th to 18th of August and pROVided both a fun and educational day out for children and parents alike.

Lifelong distinguished professor at the Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Professor Kuang-Chong Wu officially began his position as president of NARLabs on August 1, 2020.

On May 31, 2020, Professor Yeong-Her Wang’s post as sixth and seventh president of NARLabs came to a close as he returns to teach at National Cheng Kung University. NARLabs has immense gratitude for the efforts and contributions he has made here.

In an effort to strengthen ICT-based research cooperation between Taiwan and Japan, and in accordance with the recommendation of Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan’s National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) and Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) signed a memorandum of collaboration in September 2019.

BIO Asia-Taiwan 2020 was held in Taipei’s Nangang Exhibition Center from the 23rd to the 26th of July. Booth number S709 was jointly occupied by the Taiwan Instrument Research Institute (TIRI) and the Hsinchu, Central and Southern Taiwan Science Park Bureaus, who presented the biomedicine innovation ecosystem put together by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

A cooperative memorandum of understanding has been signed between NARLabs’ Taiwan CAR Lab and TÜV Rheinland Taiwan, who will look to align their work with cutting-edge international trends in autonomous vehicle development. TÜV Rheinland are to pROVide their assistance in setting safety standards and verification programs for autonomous vehicles in the CAR Lab’s closed field test facilities with a view to granting their laboratory certification. This collaboration will allow tests conducted in t

Taiwan’s independently developed autonomous driving technology is surging ahead. oToBrite and the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) of NARLabs have joined hands to develop an AI perception and recognition system using the Taiwan Computing Cloud (TWCC), creating a memory-type automated valet parking system and taking Taiwan to level 4 of driving automation[1]. oToBrite CEO, Roy Wu, remarked that by using TWCC for deep learning, the time it takes to model each individual intell

NARLabs’ Taiwan Instrument Research Institute (TIRI) has played an active role in the electronics and optoelectronics research conducted by National Taiwan University professor Wen-Jeng Hsueh’s laboratory, the results of which have been published in Scientific Reports – an academic journal published by Nature. Hsueh’s team found that conjugated topological photonic crystals (CTPC)[1] possess remarkable topological protection qualities[2] and are not impacted by manufacturing imperfections or imp

Application for cohack (https://cohack.tw), a hackathon hosted by the Executive Yuan and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), has been officially launched. In keeping with the cohack spirit of “preventing epidemics with technology, we can help!”, NARLabs’