Lab-grown tissue spun from silk could help thousands of heart attack victims heal
Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina is growing new tissue to heal damaged hearts — but the challenge comes with its own complications.
Meet a team of ‘engipreneurs’ taking medical innovations from idea to market
A multi-disciplinary program is supercharging engineers, transforming them into entrepreneurs. Can innovation be taught? Dr Matt Oldakowski, an entrepreneur, researcher...
Agricultural robots will help farmers feed the world – and do it sustainably
Agricultural robots could address productivity and labour demands on farms, as well as help farmers operate more sustainably.
Brick by brick, Lego is helping robots build their construction skills
Can machine learning and collaboration help robots learn to build Lego models? Yotto Koga hopes so, and that the construction...
AI and machine learning are helping engineers take drone delivery to the next step
A while ago, Dr Terry Martin predicted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were on the cusp of some very interesting developments,...
Engineering the next generation of Australian-made solar energy technology
The effectiveness of turning solar energy into electrical energy has increased drastically in recent years. Dr Brett Hallam is one...
Meet the engineer using rats to teach robots how to find their way
Humans have often looked to nature to build better machines. Professor Michael Milford discusses what path-finding robots can learn from...
Harder, better, stronger: Transport of the future rests on a rare-earth element
Lighter vehicles are becoming very appealing as plans for future transportation get made. For this reason and more, we could...
This “inexpensive and ubiquitous” material could protect buildings from earthquake damage
Geotextiles are already used in building foundations. But their flexibility, thinness and strength might also help save properties - and...
The “amazing spread of opportunities” at the intersection of engineering and medicine
One young electrical engineer is applying her engineering skills to help solve medical imaging problems.
