The December holidays arrived with a bang in northeast Iowa, as a controlled demolition process brought down major sections of the nearly century-old Lansing Bridge.
Performed on Dec. 19, the implosion sent the center and Wisconsin-side spans of…
Category: Engineering
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Understanding why quick clay is so unstable may lead to safer, greener stabilization methods
Quick clay collapse can be both dangerous and costly. New research will help us understand more about why the clay is so unstable. And maybe what we can do about it.
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China’s 2,000-year-old silk loom may be the world’s earliest computer
The world’s earliest computer was not built in the 19th century by Charles Babbage but over two millennia ago during the Western Han dynasty, according to the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST). The device called ti hua ji is…
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Engineer Builds Accordions and Autonomous Car System
When Sergey Antonovich rediscovered a childhood passion for music, he found an unexpected application for his skills as an embedded systems engineer: building bespoke digital accordions.
Antonovich admits the accordion isn’t the coolest…
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Trump Veto Disrupts Financing for $1.4B Colorado Water Project Already Under Way
President Donald Trump’s Dec. 30 veto of legislation intended to ease repayment terms for a long-delayed federal water project has injected new uncertainty into completion of the Arkansas Valley Conduit, a pipeline already under construction…
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OpenSpace Acquires Disperse, as PCL Partners With Syntax
OpenSpace recently acquired Disperse, a construction progress tracking platform that was previously the partner behind the software platform buyer’s own progress tracking tool that the two firms launched in June to help construction teams…
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Humanoid ‘Terminator’ robot cop patrols with police officers in China
Footage circulating this week from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen shows a humanoid robot walking alongside uniformed police officers during what appeared to be a public patrol, highlighting China’s growing push to test advanced robotics…
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Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack
In a now viral video, a man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him right in the groin, forcing him into a groaning heap while painfully and visually embodying the promise and perils of advanced robotics.
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MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee
A time-lapse photo shows a flying microrobot performing a flip. Credit: Courtesy of the Soft and Micro Robotics Laboratory.
By Adam Zewe
In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to…
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