Automotive & Transport
Tesla Break World Acceleration Record for Production Cars
Tesla has made automotive history again by breaking the record for the world’s fastest accelerating production vehicle.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
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Electronics & Communications
Engineers reveal Bat Bot – The Biomimetic flying soft Robot we deserve
Roboticists at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois have unveiled the "Bat Bot", a soft robot that flaps instead of using rotors.
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Construction & Infrastructure
World’s first 3D-printed footbridge
In a world first the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) has unveiled a first 3D-printed pedestrian bridge.
Careers Civil, Structural
Chemicals
IKEA flat-pack refugee shelter wins Design of the Year
A temporary shelter designed for refugees by IKEA has been named the 2016 Beazley Design of the Year.
Careers Chemical
Electronics & Communications
Engineers have built a 1,000-watt “super laser”
British and Czech Engineers have announced that they have constructed and fired the "Bivoj" - a 1000-watt "high peak power laser" named after a Herculean-like Czech mythical hero
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Electronics & Communications
Engineer Asier Marzo has created a sonic tractor beam … which you can build at home
Have you ever wanted to create an acoustic tractor beam to allow you to move objects with sound? Engineer Asier Marzo has not only proved it is possible but produced a video walking you through how to create a tractor beam of your own.
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Automotive & Transport
Plans for a Working Hyperloop to Connect Dubai to Abu Dhabi Accelerate
The prospect of a working Hyperloop system moved on step closer today as Hyperloop One and the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority signed a deal to evaluate the Hyperloop One system in greater Dubai and the UAE.
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Automotive & Transport
Guinness confirm World Record for Strongest magnetic field trapped in a superconductor
It's official - Guinness World Records have officially confirmed that a team of engineers led by Cambridge's Professor David Cardwell created the strongest trapped field (17.6 tesla!) in a superconductor back in 2014.
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Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Complex Organic Molecules Found on Rosetta's Comet
The ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has found complex, solid organic molecules in dust particles coming off 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, giving more weight to the theory that organic compounds and even life itself came from the stars.
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Energy & Environment
Meet the Fabric that can harvest energy from both motion and sunlight
While the concept of fabrics harvesting energy from our movements has been around for a few years, Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have taken things one step further…
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Electronics & Communications
New Wi-Fi system ‘MegaMIMO 2.0’ designed to tackle spectrum crunch
MegaMIMO 2.0 is a new Wi-Fi system designed help with congested networks. It can transfer wireless data three times faster than existing Wi-Fi protocols, and can almost double the range.
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Electronics & Communications
Two-legged Robot MARLOs takes next step forward
MARLO uses innovative algorithms that allow her to conquer mixed terrain The University of Michigan's MARLO, a free-standing two-legged robot, has taken the next step forward in conquering different ranges…
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Chemicals
Drexel University researchers develop new technique for fabricating nanobrushes
The College of Engineering at Drexel Univeristy in Philadelphia have developed a new method for manufacturing nanobrushes, tiny dirt-repellent structures which coat objects such as eyeglass lenses, artificial joints and medical devices.
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Manufacturing
Wearable graphene wrist patch accurately monitors diabetes through sweat
South Korea’s Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has developed a wearable graphene-based armband which is capable of monitoring diabetes by analysing the sweat of the wearer.
Careers Manufacturing, Automation
Health
Brain implants give rats the ability to sense infrared light
A team of researchers led by Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicoleli have successfully implanted infrared sensors into the brains of rats, allowing them to sense and react to infrared light.
Careers Biomedical
Health
New prosthetic device attaches directly to bone and can be controlled by user's nerves
Dr Max Ortiz Catalan, a biomedical engineer, has developed a new prosthetic advice which affixes to the user’s humerus through a titanium implant, and can be controlled by the user’s own nerves and muscles.
Careers Biomedical
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Maersk Tankers completes first drone delivery to a vessel at sea
Using an unmanned aerial vehicle supplied by French company Xamen Technologies, Maersk Tankers have for the first time successfully delivered a drone-supplied parcel to a vessel at sea.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Electronics & Communications
First tests for autonomous weed-destroying robot
Tests are being held in a field in Yorkshire for a new robot which will be able to traverse difficult terrain and autonomously detect and destroy weeds.
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Electronics & Communications
New hardware could dramatically reduce high-speed home broadband costs
A team of researchers from the UCL Optical Networks Group have proposed a low cost solution to the problem of providing high-speed broadband to users in their homes.
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Electronics & Communications
International research programme launched to develop humanoid robots
A research programme has been launched by Airbus Group Innovations in collaboration with Japanese and French research teams, which will manufacture humanoid robots to be used in civilian airliner assembly lines.
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Space
Landmark discovery of ripples in the fabric of space-time
Scientists have for the first time detected gravitational waves, distortions in space-time caused by the collision of two black holes.
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