Category: Engineering
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Best Specialty Construction: Minnesota Zoo Treetop Trail
Minnesota Zoo Treetop Trail
Apple Valley, Minn.
Specialty Construction
Region: ENR Midwest
Submitted by: PCL Construction
Owner: Minnesota Zoo
Lead Design Firm: Snow Kreilich Architects
General Contractor: PCL...
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Best Higher Education/Research: Advanced Engineering Building at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Advanced Engineering Building at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas
Higher Education/Research
Region: ENR Southwest
Submitted by: CORE Construction
Owner: Nevada Public Works Division
Architect of Record:...
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Best Manufacturing: United Therapeutics cGMP Warehouse
United Therapeutics cGMP Warehouse
Durham, N.C.
Manufacturing
Region: ENR Southeast
Submitted by: DPR Construction
Owner: United Therapeutics
Lead Design Firm: Hanbury
General Contractor: DPR Construction
Civil...
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‘Odd’ objects that adapt and move without a brain (w/video)
Mar 12, 2025 Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists have constructed ‘odd’ objects that autonomously roll, crawl and wiggle over unpredictable terrain,…
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Social robots as conversational catalysts: Enhancing long-term human-human interaction at home | Science Robotics
A robot mediator enhances parent-child conversational quality during dialogic reading in a long-term home deployment.
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Augmenting rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord neuromodulation: A proof of concept | Science Robotics
An implanted spinal cord neuroprosthesis augments robot-assisted rehabilitation and recreational activities after spinal cord injury.
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Muscles from the printer: Silicone that moves
Empa researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic, yet powerful structures using 3D printing. One day, these could be used in medicine or…
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Google Pixel Watch Detects Heart Attacks
Later this month, Google is expected to roll out software on its Pixel Watch 3 in the United States that has the potential to correctly identify two-thirds of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in people wearing the smartwatch. The feature uses AI…
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‘Nanodot’ control could fine-tune light for sharper displays, quantum computing
Newly achieved precise control over light emitted from incredibly tiny sources, a few nanometers in size, embedded in two-dimensional (2D) materials could lead to remarkably high-resolution monitors and advances in ultra-fast quantum computing,…
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