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Soft robotics breakthrough manages immune response for implanted devicesSeptember 9, 2019

Researchers (including from AMBER and NUI Galway) have made a discovery could enable longer-lasting and better-functioning devices — including pacemakers, breast implants, biosensors, and drug delivery devices

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Smart sink could help save waterAugust 26, 2019

An experiment with a water-saving 'smart' faucet shows potential for reducing water use. The catch? Unbeknown to study participants, the faucet's smarts came from its human controller

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New e-skin innovation gives robots and prosthetics an exceptional sense of touchJuly 29, 2019

Unique sensor system responds 1,000 times faster than the human sense of touch, the fastest ever achieved for an e-skin

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Tiny motor can ‘walk’ to carry out tasksJuly 15, 2019

Mobile motor could pave the way for robots to assemble complex structures — including other robots

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Soft robots for allJuly 1, 2019

Each year, soft robots gain new abilities. They can jump, squirm, and grip. Unlike hard robots, they can handle tomatoes without bruising the fruit, resurface unscathed after being run over by a car, and journey through radiation, disaster zones, and outer-space with few scars.

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Autonomous boats can target and latch onto each otherJune 13, 2019

Fleet of robotic boats, or 'roboats', could collect rubbish or self-assemble into floating structures in Amsterdam’s many canals

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MIT leadership guru Hal Gregersen says questions are the answerMay 29, 2019

New MIT Sloan Executive Education programme helps executives identify 'unknown unknowns' through catalytic questioning

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Drones to the rescue and how one Irish firm is helping to save livesMay 20, 2019

We must see drones as another team member or another item of equipment. It will purely strengthen agencies' capabilities if used correctly, but will not solve all of the issues surrounding difficult aerial searches, writes Oisin McGrath

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Planes, bridges and automobiles – is it time to distrust our infrastructure?May 7, 2019

Recent airplane, automobile, and bridge catastrophes have called into question the safety of modern design

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Key tax considerations arising from the sale of a businessApril 23, 2019

Bryan Farrell explains a number of important tax issues arising from the disposal of a business, and gives an overview of the reliefs available to the owners of a firm including on retirement

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Robots that can sort recyclingApril 23, 2019

CSAIL’s 'RoCycle' system uses in-hand sensors to detect if an object is paper, metal or plastic

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Revealed: New insights that can change Paralympic and world championship podiumsApril 9, 2019

Researchers from NUIG, Eindhoven University of Technology and KU Leuven have used advanced technologies such as engineering simulation and wind tunnel facilities to better understand and improve the complex aerodynamics of elite Paracycling tandem and handcycling disciplines

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‘Particle robot’ works as a cluster of simple unitsApril 9, 2019

Loosely connected disc-shaped 'particles' can push and pull one another, moving en masse to transport objects

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Boeing 737 MAX: After two fatal crashes, an expert explains the issuesMarch 26, 2019

After the two recent tragedies, all 737 MAX pilots should receive new MCAS training before they fly the plane again, and this will hopefully also lead to a broader debate about the level of training provided to airline pilots, writes Guy Gratton

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Formula One motor firms are becoming textbook cases in how to successfully branch into other sectorsMarch 26, 2019

Behind the scenes of Formula One, a transformation is taking place: In both the UK Motorsport Valley and the Italian Motor Valley – the two regions where the main players are clustered – companies have been reinventing themselves for the digital era and selling their tech know-how to other sectors

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How one engineer has tackled poverty, one person at a timeMarch 12, 2019

MIT senior and Rhodes scholar Sarah Tress aims to combine her mechanical engineering background and MPhil in development studies that she is pursuing at Oxford University to help gain a deeper understanding of how poverty arises and to reduce hardships in developing countries

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Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflipMarch 12, 2019

Robot’s lightweight, high-power design is the perfect platform to share and play, developers say

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Robots track moving objects with unprecedented precisionFebruary 26, 2019

System uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to home in on targets - and this could benefit robotic manufacturing, collaborative drones, and other applications

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Mechanical engineers develop process to 3-D print piezoelectric materialsFebruary 12, 2019

New printing technique and materials could be used to develop intelligent materials and self-adaptive infrastructures and transducers

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‘Metallic wood’ has the strength of titanium and the density of waterFebruary 12, 2019

Researchers have built a sheet of nickel with nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter

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