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An annual survey by MHI and Deloitte shows that 51% of 900 different supply chain companies agree that robotics and automation have changed the way their companies operate. The Wall Street Journal reports that the technologies have added new fields of network management, cloud computing, and sensors.  Deloitte -  on their...Read More

The WWF has released a report named Protecting People Through Nature: Natural Heritage Sites as Drivers of Sustainable Development that criticises industrial activity as being an irreparable problem to the environment.    In the foreword of the document, written by the Director General of WWF International, Marco Lambertini: Shockingly, almost half...Read More

Engineers from the University of California, San Diego, the University of South California and the California Institute of Technology have been investing their time to develop a new kind of steel that would be strong enough to survive damage without being significantly deformed, according to Design-Engineering.  The steel is being called...Read More

According to Reuters, engineering exports to the United States from Germany are not happening at a fast pace this year. The reasons given are "lower fracking investments, a weaker global economy and a euro-dollar rate stabilisation" according to an industry association, that remained unnamed in the report. More than half...Read More

Safe Work Australia and Good Design Australia are teaming up to present an award celebrating innovation, creativity and most importantly, safety in design in engineering projects. Safety in design has been reiterated globally due to recent incidents involving collapsing structures and bad design practices.  Michelle Baxter, Safe Work Australia's CEO spoke...Read More

An engineer out of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore named Dr Arindan Basu has developed a smart chip that is able to measure brain signals. The chip was created for tetraplegics. These are people who have lost the use of most or all of their limbs due to...Read More

Should self-driving cars get their own lane? That is the question left in everyone's minds after Volvo's CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, saw that one of their autonomous vehicles couldn't see the lane it was supposed to be driving in due to how shoddily the lanes looked due to wear and tear....Read More

Should self-driving cars get their own lane? That is the question left in everyone's minds after Volvo's CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, saw that one of their autonomous vehicles couldn't see the lane it was supposed to be driving in due to how shoddily the lanes looked due to wear and tear....Read More

Engineers at Iowa State University have been hard at work at creating something that might pique the military's interest. It is a translucent material that would make whatever it covers invisible to radar. In a recent report published in Scientific Reports, the engineers said: "It is believed that the present meta-skin technology...Read More

Are lightweight lithium-sulfur batteries the solution to the uncertainty that some associate with lithium batteries? Whether critics like it or not, lithium batteries are here to stay due to them being the operative force of current energy storage batteries like Tesla and Redflow's house powering cells and of course, in...Read More