Reporte #135
Electric aircraft gets energy boost from detachable motorcycle
The Engineer
Designs for an electric aircraft that gets an energy boost from a detachable motorcycle have been unveiled in Poland.
Targeted, crowdsourced aid for Mexican earthquake victims
MIT News – Engineering
MIT team’s online platform links those who need aid with those who can help.
Study claims evaporation could provide 70 per cent of US energy
The Engineer
A new report from Columbia University has claimed that energy harvested from evaporation of water in US lakes and reservoirs could provide power for about 70 per cent of the country.
Deep waters spiral upward around Antarctica
MIT News – Engineering
Research reveals the upwelling pathways and timescales of deep, overturning waters in the Southern Ocean.
Developing sensors to defend aircraft against lasers
The Engineer
MIT Lincoln Laboratory team is working on ground-based cameras that detect sources of laser beam attacks on aircraft and may lessen dangers for pilots.
Breakthrough in light manipulation could unlock faster data
The Engineer
Researchers at King’s College London have developed a new technique for instantly switching the polarisation of light.
Origami-inspired soft robot gets a grip on fragile objects
The Engineer
An origami-inspired robot could one day be used on assembly lines, in surgery or even in outer space.
How Chip Design Can Teach Us to Build Better Hospitals
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Deepak Aatresh, an electrical and computer engineer from India, joined Intel in 1989 as a chip designer (after reading an article in IEEE Spectrum on Intel’s project to build the first million-transistor chip). He spent nearly 20 years in the semiconductor industry, including seven at Intel. After Intel, he moved to communications hardware companies, where he continued to be involved in silicon chip design.
Clever Modular Robots Turn Legs Into Arms on Demand
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content
Robots that can be physically reconfigured to do lots of different things are, in theory, a great way to maximize versatility while saving time and effort. In theory. The idea is that you could have a robot with a bunch of different limbs that would be arms or legs depending on what worked best at the time, but in practice, this means coming up with entirely new gaits along with a way to transition from the old gait to the new one.
Researchers identify molecular motor that transforms chromosomes
MIT News – Engineering
Experiments confirm hypothesis about how the genome becomes organized into “neighborhoods.”