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Engineers design fast, agile and durable robotic insect
Researchers at MIT have developed tiny, aerial robots that are faster and far more agile and durable than prior versions. The researchers hope that the robots could one day provide an efficient method for artificial pollination, enabling farmers to could grow fruits and vegetables inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful…
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TECHNOLOGY
Avnet Insights Survey looks at the use of AI in product design
The fourth annual Avnet Insights survey has revealed that engineers are looking at the opportunity for artificial intelligence in product development with cautious optimism as many are still…
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British Fencing launches innovative fencing chair
Engineers at the University of Bath, in collaboration with British Fencing, have designed an innovative wooden-frame chair described as a ‘gamechanger’ by wheelchair fencing Paralympic gold-medallists Dimitri Coutya…
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Vertical Aerospace chooses Monolith as its ‘AI for engineering’ partner
Bristol-based aviation and technology company Vertical Aerospace has partnered with London-based artificial intelligence software provider Monolith to transform its eVTOL testing and simulation programmes in the hop of…
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SUSTAINABILITY
Ansys report highlights simulation’s role in improving sustainability
Design software provider Ansys has released a report that presents a new methodology for using simulation to measure and assess the sustainability impact of decisions made during early…
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MIT engineers release largest ever dataset of car designs
A team of MIT engineers has developed the world’s largest open-source dataset of car designs, including their aerodynamics, which they say could speed design of eco-friendly cars and…
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UK engineering firms launch reuse-focused collective
Six UK engineering firms have launched The Engineers Reuse Collective, a not-for-profit group committed to accelerating reuse in the built environment to support the transition of the UK’s…
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EDUCATION
Registration opens for Apprentice Automation Challenge 2025
Registration has opened for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Apprentice Automation Challenge 2025. Organised by the institution’s Manufacturing Industries Division’s Young Members Committee, this annual engineering competition tasks…
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New STEM theatre show goes to tour
Award-winning theatre company One Tenth Human has developed an interactive theatre performance designed to get children aged 7–11 more interested in STEM subjects and will be taking it…
ASME and Autodesk launch free courses to address manufacturing skills gap
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Autodesk have launched the first four in a series of free courses to address the manufacturing skills gap. The need…
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MATERIALS
Researchers’ breakthrough has potential to reduce aircraft engine noise
Researchers in the Center for Composite Materials Research (CCMR) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s College of Engineering (COE) have…
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Researchers create scalable robotic fibres with light-emitting, self-healing and magnetic properties
An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed flexible fibres with self-healing, light-emitting and…
MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical
Engineers at MIT have developed a new design for the electrodes used in electrochemical systems that are under development to convert carbon dioxide into a valuable commodity that…
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MEDICAL
Design team appointed to develop new health tech innovation facility
Scarborough Group International (SGI) has appointed a design team to lead the transformation of the Grade II*-listed Old Medical School on the Leeds General Infirmary site into a…
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Engineers turn to parasites for medical device innovation
A team of researchers at the Harvard John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has taken inspiration from tapeworms to design a tissue-anchoring mechanism for…
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Researchers solve a nearly 200-year-old polymer challenge
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new design that appears to rewrite the textbook on polymer engineering. No longer…
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