31/01/2018 ‘Tesla of the Canals’ fully electric autonomous container barges to hit Dutch waters this summer An autonomous ship dubbed the ‘Tesla of the Canals’ will ship goods between Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam this summer. The boat built by Dutch company Port-Liner will cruise along the canals ...
30/01/2018 Alloy tested to create foldable wings for supersonic drone NASA and Boeing have tested a drone that can hit incredible speeds due to a material innovation that allows the wings to dynamically change shape and position based on flight needs.
30/01/2018 Using UV light to change a 3D printed object’s colour Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are using their ColorFab method to change the colour of 3D printed parts on demand. Using their own 3D printable ...
29/01/2018 Self-repairing ceramic for aircraft engines Japanese researchers claim to have developed a ceramic material that self-repairs cracks in just one minute and could drastically change manufacturing methods for the transportation industry.
29/01/2018 GE’s latest metal 3D printer is 10 times faster Latest 3D printing technology from GE’s Additive department, called binder jet, has reduced the time taken to iterate prototypes of a complex component for CFM International’s LEAP jet engine. GE ...
26/01/2018 100MW Tesla battery in South Australia made $1m profit in just a few days On 1 December 2017, Tesla’s ‘Powerpack’ giant battery in South Australia was switched on. In its first day in operation, the 100MW battery managed to switch on in milliseconds to keep electricity ...
26/01/2018 Year of Engineering: Encourage children into engineering UWE Bristol and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) have kicked off the Year of Engineering with the launch of a national engineering competition for schools.
25/01/2018 Star Wars-like holograms: 3D images that float in thin air In the original Star Wars film, R2D2 projects an image of Princess Leia in distress. The scene includes the iconic line: “Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.”
25/01/2018 The inclusivity campaign launch: the round up January 22, 2018, saw the long-awaited inclusivity campaign launched at Manor Grove, in Handsworth, Birmingham, as a direct response to addressing the UK's engineering skills gap. Hosted by the Made ...
24/01/2018 New Leadership Days launched to prepare for the Smart Factory of the Future Manufacturing Management (formerly Works Management) is pleased to announce an exciting new series of one-day Leadership Day events aimed at developing and preparing future manufacturing leaders.
24/01/2018 Light-bending material could be used to create an invisibility cloak Researchers from Northwestern University in Illinois have developed a first-of-its-kind technique for creating entirely new classes of optical materials and devices that could lead to light bending ...
23/01/2018 Hand-exoskeleton controlled by brainwaves Scientists from the EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) are developing a lightweight and portable hand exoskeleton that can be controlled with brainwaves. The device is said to enhance ...
23/01/2018 Ricardo and University of South Wales to collaborate on EV battery development The University of South Wales’ Centre for Automotive & Power System Engineering (CAPSE) and Ricardo have announced that they intend to collaborate on electric vehicle (EV) battery systems research ...
22/01/2018 Precision British engineering helps with new Aardman movie British animation studio, Aardman have used an extremely high accuracy rotary table from Rotary Precision Instruments UK (RPI) to help film its new movie, ‘Early Man’.
19/01/2018 Stronger parts with plated 3D-printed plastic parts Proto Labs, the leading provider of technology-enabled, rapid manufacturing solutions, announces the extension of its in-house 3D-printing capabilities with the inclusion of specialist plating ...
18/01/2018 VR allows scientists to 'walk through' brains Scientists from the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering and the University of Geneva have developed virtual reality (VR) technology that lets them walk through images created by powerful ...
18/01/2018 Millimetre-scale robot for use in microsurgery, microassembly and micromanipulation A team of scientists from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed the milliDelta robot that ...
16/01/2018 High-performance composites made via novel 3D printing technique A team of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has demonstrated a novel 3D printing method that yields unprecedented control of the arrangement ...
16/01/2018 Confident manufacturers plan to invest and create jobs in 2018 According to Lloyds Bank’s latest Business in Britain report, the majority of UK manufacturers are confident about their growth prospects in 2018 and many plan to boost investment and create jobs as ...
15/01/2018 Government launches Year of Engineering campaign to inspire the next generation A pioneering campaign to transform the way young people see engineering and boost numbers entering the profession has been launched today.
11/01/2018 Cobot developed to maintain Ocado warehouses Ocado Technology has unveiled the first prototype of its ARMAR-6 humanoid collaborative robot (cobot) that will eventually assist maintenance workers in its three highly automated UK warehouses.
11/01/2018 A ‘fully solar-powered’ car could hit roads by 2019 Dutch startup, Lightyear has won a Climate Change Innovator Award at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas for developing the Lightyear One, an electric car it claims is fully ...
11/01/2018 Research into self-regenerative materials A consortium of seven universities, has received a grant of £2.7m to undertake ground-breaking research into manufacturing materials which have the ability to self-heal or regenerate.
10/01/2018 3D printed super soft structures to replicate internal organs Imperial College London researchers have developed a new 3D printing technique using cryogenics that allows them to replicate 3D biological structures, which could be used for tissue regeneration and ...
08/01/2018 Inclusivity for UK manufacturing Manufacturing and engineering membership body, the Made in Group, which includes Made in the Midlands and Made in Yorkshire, is launching an Inclusivity campaign, backed by Baroness Lorely Burt, ...
Bloodhound in administration Bloodhound Programme Ltd, the company behind the project to smash the land speed ...
Robot balances like a human Engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at ...
Electric powered propulsion Australian electric propulsion company, magniX has successfully tested its 350 ...
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