Robotics
Imagine being able to build and use a robotic device without the need for expensive, specialist kit or skills. That is the vision that researchers from the University of Bristol have turned into reality, creating a lightweight, ...
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Engineering
A new interface developed by researchers in Bristol and Paris takes touch technology to the next level, by providing an artificial skin-like membrane for augmenting interactive devices such as phones, wearables or computers.
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Engineering
Alphabet (Google) subsidiary Wing has become the first company in the United States to deliver packages by drone.
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Engineering
Skydio 2 Dock is from the company with the same name, Skydio. The company showed a video of it on Wednesday. They said in the video notes that "We look forward to partnering with our first customers and regulators to roll ...
Oct 18, 2019 weblog
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Engineering
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new, futuristic 3D printer that is so big and so fast it can print an object the size of an adult human in just a couple of hours.
Oct 17, 2019
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Engineering
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have pioneered a novel approach to 3-D print chocolate-based products at room temperature by cold extrusion.
Oct 17, 2019
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Engineering
Gone are the days when people use smart speakers—like Amazon Echo or Google Home—only as kitchen timers or dinner party music players. These devices have started helping people track their own health, and can even monitor ...
Oct 16, 2019
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Engineering
A team of engineers and marine biologists built a better suction cup inspired by the mechanism that allows the clingfish to adhere to both smooth and rough surfaces, such as rocks in the area where the tide comes and goes.
Oct 16, 2019
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Engineering
Inspired by a University of Michigan professor's recovery after a cycling crash, an innovative patch could bring the assessment of human joints into the 21st century.
Oct 16, 2019
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Engineering
Wrapping a building in a fire-protective blanket is a viable way of protecting it against wildfires, finds the first study to scientifically assesses this method of defense.
Oct 15, 2019
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