Engineering
New Zealander develops world’s first robot ‘politician’
27 Nov 2017
Entrepreneur Nick Gerritsen’s ‘SAM’ may not be eligible to stand for elections, but can answer queries on local issues – and promises to ‘consider everyone's position, without bias, when making decisions’
Robot passes China’s medical licensing examination
20 Nov 2017
Xiao Yi, a robot developed by Tsinghua University, has passed China’s National Medical Licensing Examination, scoring 456, exceeding the acceptance line by 96 points
Additive manufacturing and sustainability: The environmental implications of 3-D printing
15 Nov 2017
First white-box testing model finds thousands of errors in self-driving cars
25 Oct 2017
Researchers have created the first efficient testing approach for deep learning platforms used in self-driving cars, malware-detection and other systems
Liquid metal brings soft robotics a step closer
17 Oct 2017
3-D printing of aircraft parts out of titanium
14 Oct 2017
World's largest combustion research centre at IIT Madras
14 Oct 2017
National Centre for Combustion Research and Development will develop state-of-the-art capabilities in combustion research in three major application sectors - automotive, thermal power and aerospace propulsion, besides fire research and microgravity combustion
Hyperloop One gets investment from Virgin Group
13 Oct 2017
Hyperloop One gets investment from Virgin Group
13 Oct 2017
Teleoperating robots with virtual reality
06 Oct 2017
One step closer to lifelike robots
21 Sep 2017
AI-engineering: merging, morphing, mobile robots
13 Sep 2017
New distance record set for medical transport by drones
13 Sep 2017
Johns Hopkins researchers have set a new delivery distance record for medical drones, successfully transporting human blood samples across 161 miles of Arizona desert
Machinery that repairs itself
09 Sep 2017
Scientists are collaborating to develop maintenance technology capable of forecasting machine downtimes in production even before they occur
Aerospace test at Sandia goes green with alternative to explosives
04 Sep 2017
Like a musical tuning fork, the resonant bar and the resonant cone need to vibrate at certain frequencies to apply the right amount of energy to the test object
Drones relay RFID signals for inventory control
28 Aug 2017
ShAPEing the future of magnesium car parts
23 Aug 2017
Magnesium — the lightest of all structural metals — has a lot going for it in the quest to make ever lighter cars and trucks that go farther on a tank of fuel or battery charge
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