Engineering
Texas company building 3D printed houses for $10,000
14 Mar 2018
Austin startup ICON has devised a method of mass producing small homes using a massive 3D printer in a process that the company claims will take just 12 to 24 hours to build a home
ESA’s new thruster uses air as fuel
09 Mar 2018
Robo-picker grasps and packs
22 Feb 2018
The `pick-and-place' system consists of a standard industrial robotic arm that the researchers outfitted with a custom gripper and suction cup controlled by an 'object-agnostic' grasping algorithm that enables the robot to assess a bin of random objects and determine the best way to grip or suction onto an item amid the clutter, without having to know anything about the object beforehand
Improving drone performance in headwinds
10 Feb 2018
From laboratory to marketplace
06 Feb 2018
Changing the colour of 3-D printed objects
30 Jan 2018
Using their own 3-D printable ink that changes colour when exposed to UV light, researchers can recolour a multi-coloured object in just over 20 minutes
DJI reveals its newest drone, DJI Mavic Air
25 Jan 2018
Small but fast: A miniaturised origami-inspired robot combines micrometer precision with high speed
18 Jan 2018
Drug manufacturing that’s out of this world
16 Jan 2018
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