Latest Mechanical Stories
Revealed: New insights that can change Paralympic and world championship podiumsApril 9, 2019
‘Particle robot’ works as a cluster of simple unitsApril 9, 2019
Boeing 737 MAX: After two fatal crashes, an expert explains the issuesMarch 26, 2019
Formula One motor firms are becoming textbook cases in how to successfully branch into other sectorsMarch 26, 2019
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
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
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
Mechanical engineers develop process to 3-D print piezoelectric materialsFebruary 12, 2019
‘Metallic wood’ has the strength of titanium and the density of waterFebruary 12, 2019
Technique identifies electricity-producing bacteriaJanuary 29, 2019
Tiny satellites could be ‘guide stars’ for huge next-generation telescopesJanuary 29, 2019
How Galway’s Ellen Roche blends medicine and mechanical engineeringJanuary 15, 2019
Revealed: Smart car tech saves US drivers $6.2bn in fuel costs each yearDecember 11, 2018
In the first study to assess the energy impact of smart technology in cars, researchers have put a number on the potential fuel-cost savings alone: $6.2bn
Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motionNovember 27, 2018
Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikersNovember 13, 2018
Human fallibility and automation: Lessons of the Virgin Galactic crashOctober 30, 2018
What hovering animals can teach us about flying robotsOctober 30, 2018
Study opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materialsOctober 16, 2018
Engineering team designs technology for smart materialsOctober 2, 2018
Robot cities: three urban prototypes for future livingSeptember 18, 2018
From hyper-robotised Tokyo to smartest Singapore and happy, crime-free Dubai, these three examples show that robots are perceived as means to achieve global futures based on a specific national imagination, writes Mateja Kovacic