Skilling Up with Online Learning
As engineers, we learn a lot of the fundamentals of engineering in school, but as our careers develop, many of us feel that more training would be useful. When this has been the case in…
Technology
This Team of Flat Robots Can Easily Roll Up Under Your Car and Move or Park It Autonomously
Are you terrible at parking? Probably… Well, lucky for you, the AVERT (Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool) system is a gang of flat robots capable of lifting a car up by its wheels and parking…
DARPA’s New EXACTO Rounds Can Compensate for Moving Targets and Hit Them Easily
DARPA’s new EXACTO rounds, short for Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance, are literally smart bullets that will twist and turn in mid-air to eventually hit their target. Essentially, the bullets are like guided missiles being shot…
Real Time Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Supporting Sustainable Development
Canada is one of the world’s largest suppliers of forest products and is beginning to use Earth observation GIS technology, including remote sensing, to track 83 indicators to measure whether or not its forests are…
This Realistic Humanoid Robot Can React to Your Facial Expressions
Humanoid robots have been fascinating people ever since the development of robots. In science fiction, these human-like robots are shown to be capable of emulating human expressions, but in reality the capabilities of humanoid robots are…
Teaching Engineering With Cartoons & Funny Machines
Capturing the Imagination of College Freshmen Add simplicity, bright colors, creativity, and imagination and you’ve got the series of cartoons introducing young and old alike to economics, statistics, climate change, engineering, physics and more. One…
Children’s Feet Grow Incredibly Quickly, so ‘Because International’ Made a Shoe That Can Keep Pace
Children’s feet grow fast, and they often require new shoes every few months. This can be pretty expensive for people living in developing countries, so some children end up wearing ill-fitting shoes or just go…
Stanford Robot Weighing Less Than Half an Ounce Can Haul Objects Up to 52 Pounds!
Scientists from Stanford have built a series of super-strong robots, New Scientist reports, including one that weighs less than a half an ounce yet can haul up to 52 pounds. The design of these Schwarzenegger-like…
Artists Set Cameras in Forest to Capture Magical Images at Night in ‘Bioluminescent Forest’
To capture the beauty of forests, two artists, Friedrich van Schoor and Tarek Mawad, did not rely on painting nice pictures. Instead, they spent six weeks in the forest to painstakingly observe their surroundings before capturing…
Shanty-Scraper: An Innovative Skyscraper
To celebrate outstanding ideas for vertical living, eVolo magazine has been holding an annual contest since 2006. eVolo receives thousands of projects from all over the world for this competition. The winning entries are selected for…
