Engineering
Buy and scan your hand to pay
23 Apr 2014
Global research aims to make dams safer for fish
14 Apr 2014
Driving down fuel usage
By Rob Matheson, MIT News Office | 10 Mar 2014
When the vehicles brake, a process known as “regenerative braking” captures the kinetic energy, usually dissipated as heat through friction, and converts it into electricity that charges the battery — which, in turn, releases the energy to the electric motor during acceleration
Robots that can keep secrets
04 Mar 2014
Humanoid robots are not just the stuff of science fiction; these computing devices are likely to be walking around our streets in the next decade
Herding robots
14 Feb 2014
A new system combines simple control programs to enable fleets of robots, or other “multi-agent systems”, to collaborate in unprecedented ways.
3-D scanning, with a smartphone
By By Rob Matheson, MIT News Office | 01 Feb 2014
Caltech professor designs unique wind turbines
29 Jan 2014
Placing these unique vertical-axis turbines in a particular orientation to one another profoundly improves their energy-generating efficiency
Human arm sensors make robots smarter
17 Jan 2014
Magnetic nanoparticles could aid heat dissipation in N plants
23 Nov 2013
Particles suspended in cooling water could prevent hotspots in nuclear plant cooling systems and electronics
How the newest diesel engines emit very little greenhouse gas nitrous oxide
By By Mary Beckman | 20 Nov 2013
New modelling technique could bypass the need for prototypes
20 Nov 2013
A new modelling techniquecould eliminate the need to build costly prototypes, which are used to test engineering structures such as aeroplanes