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Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known

https://news.mit.edu | David L. Chandler | MIT News Office January 9, 2017 Comments Off on Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known

A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material,... Read More

New drone dives like a bird and leaps like a flying fish

Imperial College London December 17, 2016 Comments Off on New drone dives like a bird and leaps like a flying fish

Engineers have developed a prototype drone that dives like a gannet and launches like a flying fish, to collect water samples. Gannets are the largest seabirds in the north Atlantic... Read More

Engineers get under robot’s skin to heighten senses

https://news.cornell.edu | Tom Fleischman December 13, 2016 Comments Off on Engineers get under robot’s skin to heighten senses

Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorized means, which can be excessively bulky and rigid. A Cornell group has devised a way for a soft robot to feel... Read More

An innovative window system earns a European patent

https://actu.epfl.ch/ December 5, 2016 Comments Off on An innovative window system earns a European patent

and visual comfort inside buildings and could also make window blinds obsolete one day. The European Patent Office has just granted the system patent protection. Are window blinds about to... Read More

European Aviation Network (EAN) is airborne!

https://www.nokia.com/ November 28, 2016 Comments Off on European Aviation Network (EAN) is airborne!

Bonn, Germany, London, UK, Espoo, Finland – The European Aviation Network (EAN) has taken to the skies. Inmarsat and Deutsche Telekom, together with their technology partners Nokia and Thales have... Read More