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Bots with brains: Wits robotics goes underground
Wits’ RAIL Lab trains intelligent machines to navigate caves, pour milk, and plan like humans, pushing the frontiers of autonomous AI research.
24 June 2025
The art of sound in architecture
Artist-in-residence Fellow brings sound innovation to School of Architecture and Planning
20 June 2025
Sexism in science: trailblazing women who shattered stereotypes
The tools that feminist science studies have developed are critical to the sciences because they ask new questions, and develop new methodologies.
20 June 2025
Africa’s moment to lead the hydrogen revolution lies beneath our feet
Geologic hydrogen can help Africa leapfrog into an energy-secure future.
19 June 2025




Wits has approved R22 million in emergency funding to support affected students and health researchers hit by US grant cuts. Scientists are putting Africa on the map with low-cost, water-free geologic hydrogen and leading global efforts to reforest 195 million hectares for a greener future. As SA heads the G20, Wits experts are backing a bold energy-sharing vision for the continent. On campus, Tinyiko Mahlaule, Deputy Director for Energy, Utilities and GMR Compliance is driving a decade-long utilities overhaul.
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