Technology
This company wants to make robots less clumsy
Robots can do a lot of things but, compared to a human, they are remarkably clumsy. This company wants to...
Australian-engineered smart robotic recycling system has soft plastics in the bag
In 2017-18, only six per cent of Australian soft plastic waste was recycled. The rest added to the growing mountain...
This burrowing robot mimics nature to snake underground
Engineers have developed a soft robot that can burrow through sand and other difficult terrain.
Using drones to monitor the 27 km pipeline supplying Sydney’s water
Keeping Sydney supplied with water means watching over many kilometres of pipeline. Thanks to drones and great troves of data,...
This engineer wants to ensure a tragedy like London’s Grenfell Tower fire never happens again
A Melbourne-based engineer is helping save lives by teaming up with a construction materials company to design lightweight, cost-effective cladding...
Artificial intelligence sent into battle against fake news
An AI system built by software engineers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory automatically detects and analyses social media accounts that spread...
This engineer pushes materials to breaking point to help technology cope with extremes
Mechanical engineer Dr Veronica Gray is figuring out when, why and how materials break, pushing the breaking point further so...
This hair’s-breadth probe can navigate the body’s circulatory system
Biomedical engineer Dr Jiawen Li is developing ultra-thin fibre-optic devices that can explore the body’s organs and detect heart disease.
These tiny 3D-printed structures could help the body regrow bones
Engineers and scientists have combined their talents to flip traditional 3D printing and create intricate biomedical structures designed to regrow...
Engineering robots to talk to themselves could improve human/AI trust
Researchers have programmed Pepper the robot to ‘think out loud’ to help humans better understand the decision-making process of artificial...
