Engineering
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
Humanoid robot that sees and maps
11 Nov 2013
Pumping fuel in ecobot
11 Nov 2013
Scientists on way to creating urine-driven robo
11 Nov 2013
Researchers develop artificial heart to pump human waste to power future robots
Nasa to launch 3D printer into space
01 Oct 2013
Nasa plans to launch a 3D printer into space next year to allow astronauts to manufacture spare parts and tools in zero gravity
Japan launches talking robot Kirobo into outer space
05 Aug 2013
Japan yesterday launched Kirobo, a 13-inch talking robot that can also recognise faces, into outer space to keep International Space Station crew company.
Driverless cars to debut on UK roads later this year
18 Jul 2013
Researchers at Oxford in the UK and Google in the USare independently engaged in developing driver-less vehicles