A technician installs solar panels on the roof of the building which houses the University of Colorado Center for Innovation and Creativity in Boulder. Credit: Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado The solar…
Tag: Engineering
New reactor could save millions when making ingredients for plastics and rubber from natural gas
Rawan Almallahi, a doctoral graduate of chemical engineering and the study’s first author, is preparing a reactor for a performance test inside a furnace. Suljo Linic, the Martin Lewis Perl…
Self-organizing robotic aggregate design inspired by flowing and rigid behaviors of sandpiles
Red arrows represent the actuated magnets’ direction of rotation. Blue arrows represent Granulobots in the process of reconfiguration. (A) Individual Granulobot units can roll and attach magnetically into larger assemblies,…
A skating, tri-pedal robot capable of highly stable locomotion
Adam Hung and Prof. Talia Moore deploy the SKOOTR robot outdoors. Credit: Hung, Adu & Moore. Researchers at University of Michigan recently developed SKOOTR, a tri-pedal skating robot that can…
Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device
Photo of person’s neck with the device—a black adhesive square—attached outside the throat. Credit: Jun Chen Lab/UCLA People with voice disorders, including those with pathological vocal cord conditions or who…
Flexible sensors with zero Poisson’s ratio
The ZPR structure is constructed by combining concave structures (green) and hexagonal structures (purple) in elaborately designed position, while strain concentration structure (orange) is embedded in the middle of hexagonal…
A new method to understand the walkability of cities
The global-local path choice model explains the extent to which different attributes influence pedestrians’ global and local path choices. In this example, the pedestrians are more likely to choose Street…
Building on an abundant natural resource
An EU project built apartments in southwestern France to showcase wood’s potential in construction. Credit: BASAJAUN, 2024 Forests in the EU can help green the European construction industry and bolster…
