Electronics & Communications
Social media giant Snapchat is said to be working on its very first hardware product. The company is engineering a set of augmented reality glasses which will be similar to Microsoft's HoloLens headset or Google Glass.
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Health
The UK’s Maritime Autonomy Surface Testbed (MAST) has undergone trials in the Tidal Thames today. The craft is an unmanned surface vessel (USV) based on an innovative Bladerunner hull shape.
Careers Biomedical
Space
NASAs Juno spacecraft has taken its first close-up of Jupiter's north pole. The images were captured during the spacecraft’s first flyby of the planet when its instruments switched on on August 27th.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Yesterday at 9:07 a.m, a routine test of a Falcon 9 rockets engine resulted in a huge explosion at SpaceX’s dedicated Launchpad on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Base.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Energy & Environment
Back in June we looked at Ocean Cleanup's announcement of the first ocean trials of its crowd-funded trash clearing boom.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Space
NASA used last weeks Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium to announce plans for a submarine to probe the freezing liquid methane and ethane oceans of Saturn’s moon Titan.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Energy & Environment
Turbines installed on Bluemull Sound, just off the coast of Shetland, are being heralded as marking a "new era" in tidal energy
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Robots in Service of the Environment (RISE) has its sights on the Lionfish, an invasive species spreading throughout the western Atlantic.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Automotive & Transport
Singapore has become the first country in the world to have on-demand driverless taxis. Startup nuTonomy managed to beat out most established…
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Electronics & Communications
Dexta Robotics generated a lot of buzz among fans of VR in 2014 with the launch of its Kickstarter campaign. However, the Chinese firm managed to raise only a quarter of its $200,000 goal.
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Manufacturing
Engeineers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering are showing off their 'Octobot'. The small autonomous robot is powered by chemical reactions controlled by microfluidics.
Careers Manufacturing, Automation
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
The Airlander 10, the world's longest aircraft, has been damaged after nosediving on landing during its second test flight. The crew are…
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Electronics & CommunicationsBreakthroughs
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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Construction & InfrastructureOpportunities
The Institution of Civil Engineers has published a two-page summary report "Brexit – The Case for Infrastructure".
Careers Civil, Structural
Energy & Environment
MIT engineers have invented a bubble-wrapped sponge-like device which can soak up sunlight to generate steam through its pores.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Space
NASA is reporting it has successfully tested the engine created to power its huge Space Launch System (SLS) deep-space rocket, with no issues occurring across its 7.5-minute run.
Careers Aerospace, Electronic
Electronics & Communications
Abe Davis has produced a video breakdown of his on-going PhD dissertation at MIT. In it, algorithms are used to extract an image-space representation of object structure from a video…
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Space
NASA has announced a new challenge to create a program for a virtual Robonaut 5 which would allow it to complete a series of complex tasks within a virtual Martian habitat.
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Construction & InfrastructureOpportunities
Glassdoor’s 2016 report has revealed that graduate mechanical engineers earn approximately £26,949 per annum, software engineers £28,370, graduate engineers £26,500, civil engineers £25,000 and structural engineers £24,993.
Careers Civil, Structural
Construction & Infrastructure
The International Broadcast Centre is the largest building in the Olympic Park, and while visually it might not have the impact of The Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Handball Arena or the Arenas Cariocas its technical stats are staggering.
Careers Civil, Structural
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Cardington Sheds, a Grade II-listed World War One hanger than was once used to housed airships in the 1920s, saw the first flight of The Airlander 10 yesterday evening.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical