This week’s video comes from Switzerland via Las Vegas where EPFL spin-off Foldaway Haptics provided origami-inspired robots to Mercedes-Benz for their VISION AVTR concept car.

Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded a $9.2 million contract to Raytheon for services in support of the MK 48 Advanced Capability heavyweight torpedo.

Denmark’s Green Ship of the Future project has been set up to develop technologies that could improve the environmental performance of cargo vessels. Stuart Nathan reports

UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has become the first company in the world to introduce a refrigerated delivery lorry cooled by a liquid nitrogen-powered engine.

The first of two Interoperability Centres designed to promote common standards in electric mobility and smart grids on both sides of the Atlantic has been inaugurated near Chicago.

NASA has selected Lockheed Martin and industry partners to design and build Orion, the next-generation human space flight crew transportation system, in a contract worth approximately $4bn.

Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Vanderbilt University have developed new nanotechnology that could lead to a surgically implantable, artificial kidney.

Alcatel and Russian service provider Start Telecom have signed an agreement to conduct a field trial of WiMAX equipment starting this month.

Japanese researchers at OKI Electric Cable and Tokyo Metropolitan University have succeeded in developing a new method to suppress micro-surge,

BAE Systems has announced a £1m three-year partnership with the University of Central Lancashire to conduct research into energy management.