“If we’re going to build a circular, sustainable economy, the chemical industry is a big, complex problem that we must address,” said Professor Erwin Reisner from Cambridge’s Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, who led the research….
Category: Engineering
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Robot Talk Episode 131 – Empowering game-changing robotics research, with Edith-Clare Hall
Claire chatted to Edith-Clare Hall from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) about accelerating scientific and technological breakthroughs.
Edith-Clare Hall is a PhD student at…
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Ford X-100: A Futuristic 1950s Concept Car
In 1954, in a moment of absolute frankness, the president of Gifford Motors described his company’s latest luxury automobile: “Designed to appeal to the snob in everyone. Designed to convert your bank account into our dividends.”
Perhaps…
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Are room-temperature superconductors finally within reach?
When electricity moves through wires, some of its energy is lost along the way. That loss, however, might not be inevitable. Researchers at Penn State have developed a new way to identify materials known as superconductors — substances that can…
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Scientists turn common semiconductor into a superconductor
For decades, researchers have tried to create semiconductor materials that can also act as superconductors — materials capable of carrying electric current without resistance. Semiconductors, which form the foundation of modern computer chips…
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A flexible lens controlled by light-activated artificial muscles promises to let soft machines see
This rubbery disc is an artificial eye that could give soft robots vision. Image credit: Corey Zheng/Georgia Institute of Technology.
By Corey Zheng, Georgia Institute of Technology and Shu Jia,…
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Breakthrough optical processor lets AI compute at the speed of light
Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems, from robotic surgery to high-frequency trading, rely on processing streams of raw data in real time. Extracting important features quickly is critical, but conventional digital processors are hitting…
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Crowdfunding Tips from Crowd Supply’s Helen Leigh
Crowdsourcing has become a go-to for independent and open-source hardware creators hoping to turn a cool prototype into a polished product. But many projects fail along the way, often for nontechnical reasons.
Helen Leigh is the director of…
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Social media round-up from #IROS2025
The 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) took place from October 19 to 25, 2025 in Hangzhou, China. The programme included plenary and keynote…
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Weekly Robotics #334
Today’s issue is on the shorter side on account of me being at ROSCon. If you are attending, come say hi to me at the Foxglove booth. I should have some stickers!
PX4 Developer Summit 2025 will take place November 10–11 at the Omni…
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