Our anonymous blogger questions whether large manufacturers are as lean as they like to think they are

San Diego engineers develop elastomer-based structure that conforms to curved surfaces to direct soundwaves into engineered structures

Southern Cross Cables is to renew and extend its undersea cable maintenance agreement with Global Marine Systems.

The UK’s National Centre for Nuclear Robotics is developing machine vision, artificial intelligence and advanced robots to decommission the country’s 4.9m tonnes of nuclear waste.

Nanotube fibres have been sewn into sportswear at Rice University to monitor the heart rate and take a continual electrocardiogram (EKG) of the wearer. 

A lightweight electronic device able to detect the precise location of snipers may soon undergo trials with UK military forces, The Engineer has learned.

Researchers from Australia and Sweden have used a recording of a dragonfly’s brain activity to develop an autonomous robot able to track targets in real time.

Two construction science professors have received an industry grant to apply building information modelling (BIM) to a real-world project in San Antonio, TX.

Growing pressure to make products more repairable could have major implications for manufacturers around the world. Jon Excell reports.