Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
Meet Cassie – the highly energy-efficient walking machine
A new startup company, Agility Robotics, has spun off from Oregon State University and successfully introduced Cassie.
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Aerospace, Defence & Marine
#cubesat ISRO launch 104 Satellites to smash the world launch record
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) created history today by launching a record 104 satellites into the earth’s lower orbit from the ISRO space centre at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh -…
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Automotive & TransportBreakthroughs
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.
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Automotive & TransportOpportunities
Dorothée Pullinger – Ground-breaking female engineer nominated for Scotland’s Hall of Heroes
Dorothée Pullinger - an accomplished automobile engineer, racing car driver, entrepreneur and founding member of the Women’s Engineering Society - could become the first woman to be included in the…
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Opportunities
Applications for the University of Cambridge “Public Engagement with Research” Awards Open
Applications for this year's University of Cambridge Public Engagement with Research Awards are now open.
Aerospace, Defence & MarineOpportunities
Victoria Drummond – Ground-breaking female engineer nominated for Scotland’s Hall of Heroes
Victoria Drummond, Britain’s first female marine engineer, could become the first woman to be included in the Hall of Heroes at The National Wallace Monument in Stirling.
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Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Could British Engineering win the America's Cup for the first time in 166 years?
Sir Ben Ainslie has launched the British Landrover BAR (aka Rita)- a yacht that combines the very best of British automotive and aerospace engineering skills - and he hopes it…
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Electronics & CommunicationsOpportunities
FIRST LEGO League – Dr Kim Cave-Ayland mentors Robot Turtles
Students at Gillotts School in Henley have won the best robot design award at the FIRST LEGO League Oxfordshire regional tournament.
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Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Bristol hosts MAAXX – The Worlds First Autonomous Drone Race
Drone enthusiasts are set to descend on the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) as it hosts an indoor drone air race with a twist.
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Electronics & CommunicationsOpportunities
Dyson’s cryptic Youtube challenge aims to hoover up the best UK Engineering talent
Dyson are always looking for new engineering talent but have taken a slightly different approach in their search for the best and brightest software Engineers.
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Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
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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Health
Engineers who revolutionised modern Digital Imaging Sensors win £1 million Queen Elizabeth Prize
Three Engineers who have revolutionised the modern visual world across three decades with; the charge-coupled device (CCD); the pinned photodiode (PPD) and the complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor…
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Health
CRISPR technology used to develop Tuberculosis-resistant cows
In a world first a team of Chinese Enginers have used the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique to produce live cows with increased resistance to bovine tuberculosis successfully.
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Construction & InfrastructureBreakthroughs
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.
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ChemicalsBreakthroughs
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.
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Electronics & Communications
The University of Bath is offering a fully funded PhD to investigate “Video Dressing Virtual Actors”
The CAMERA (Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications) project, part of the University of Bath, is offering something a little different to prospective to PhD candidates…
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Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Suit Up – Boeing Reveals Sleeker & “Cooler” Starliner Spacesuit
With the Boeing CST-100 Starliner set to take to space in 2018 Boeing have revealed that its passengers and crew will be more stylish and quite literally cooler than their predecessors.
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Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
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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Aerospace, Defence & Marine
“Britain in Space” – Born to Engineer talk to Photographer James Ball about documenting Britain's thriving space industry
This is the opinion of British photographer James Ball (aka Docubyte) who has spent the last six years documenting Britain’s thriving space industry.
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Space
CubeSat Pioneers – New Born to Engineer Video
That was the challenge posed by the UK Space Agency to Steve Greenland of Clyde Space Ltd and Strathclyde University.
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Electronics & Communications
UK Sensor Superstar UtterBerry sets sights on China
UtterBerry, a new UK smart sensing technology, founded by Heba Bevan, has been announced as the chosen advanced technology for export to China.
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