Fruit pickers face robotic replacement in Australia


10 March, 2016
Fruit harvesters beware! Robots could be taking your jobs soon. High labour costs are the leading reason given for considering the move to robotics in the horticulture industry. Harvesting with automated, mechanical devices that do the job better than a human hand are becoming the preferred method of harvesting in...Read More

A new hope for preventing marine fouling


9 March, 2016
The bottom of any vessel that is submerged in seawater is capable of collecting bacteria and marine organisms that have extremely negative effects on the vessels due to corrossion. The process of corrosion on the underbelly of these boats is called 'marine fouling'. It causes costly damages and equals hefty...Read More

LTE hits more than 1 billion connections


9 March, 2016
The Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has said LTE and LTE-Advanced connections skyrocketed by 156 million connections in the fourth quarter of 2015. In the last year, LTE connections went up by 552.2 million.  Alan Hadden, VP of research at GSA said, "A daily average of almost 1.7 million LTE subscriptions...Read More

Russia’s new ATV boasts self-inflated tyres and swimming capabilities


9 March, 2016
Russian automotive engineering company SHERP has shown off its amphibious ATV vehicle in a new video.  According to Top Gear, the ATV has self-inflating tyres that can dominate obstacles of 70cm or more. They also say it has a "Kubota four-pot (so four cylinders) 1.5-litre turbodiesel" inside the beast but only...Read More

Engineering students save their peers money with new money app


9 March, 2016
Four engineering students at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras have saved their fellow peers some cents here and there. They developed a campus payment app called Paymint. The app can be used to pay for items on campus and then allow students to get their change in full. The students...Read More

Unaccredited engineering degrees and unskilled engineers in Africa


9 March, 2016
Engineering in Africa, as we have recently reported, is struggling to produce jobs for engineers in industries like the construction industry. A study in 2013 by the Royal Academy of Engineering found that Africa desperately needed engineers with skills and experience. In the study under a heading named 'The scale...Read More

Computers are able to read signs of boredom and excitement


9 March, 2016
A new study conducted by body-language expert Dr Harry Witchel, Discipline Leader in Physiology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) believes that computers are able to read a person's body language to tell whether they are bored or interested in what they see on the screen based on the...Read More

The top 5 engineering graduate producing countries


8 March, 2016
The World Economic Forum has conducted research which details which country produces the most engineering graduates. Unfortunately, the data they collected left China and India out of the equation due to a "lack of data". Due to the perplexing fact that they left the two countries out, InsiderMonkey.com conducted their...Read More

3-D tissue bioengineering in spotlight at Harvard


8 March, 2016
The latest results in the tissue engineering and biomaterial development field comes from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering team that work out of Harvard University. Working with the Harvard John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the teams have developed a new method of bioprinting...Read More

Revolutionary drone can swim, float and dive


7 March, 2016
An alumnus and a team from Oakland University have won $1 million for the creation of possibly the niftiest drone ever invented. The Loon Copter is an "aerial-surface-underwater reconnaissance drone". It can fly, ski on water and even dive down into water. They built the drone for a competition called Drones...Read More