Components of varied shape, size and weight can now be produced on a single assembly line, thanks to a new-style servopneumatic proportional gripper. Siobhan Wagner reports
The Ministry of Defence has awarded around £72.5m to UK industry consortia, headed by Thales and Raytheon UK, for production of Directed Energy Weapons.
UK car production fell almost 10 per cent in 2022 despite record levels of battery electric and hybrid vehicles, according to the latest figures from the industry.
A fully loaded firefighter could reach the top of a 30-story building in only 30 seconds, thanks to an invention by a student at MIT.
ScottishPower subsidiary, PPM Energy, and its joint venture partner, Zilkha Renewable Energy of Houston, are to build a windfarm in upstate New York.
The Health and Safety Executive has published a revised version of guidance designed to help employers who supply personal protective equipment at work meet their legal duties.
Solar power could be harvested more efficiently and transported over long distances using tiny molecular circuits, according to research inspired by new insights into natural photosynthesis.
A team from MIT’s Field and Space Robotics Laboratory (FSRL) has designed a solar-powered desalination system that could be deployed in crisis situations to produce drinking water.
As part of its annual Collaborate To Innovate awards initiative The Engineer is on the look-out for the UK’s most inspiring and effective school engineering projects.
Plans to design the world’s largest open-access offshore wind-turbine drive-train test rig have been announced by the UK’s Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).
