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12-year-old’s invention to clean toxic air wins national competition
A 12-year-old from Huddersfield has won the Institution of Engineering & Technology’s (IET) national ‘Backpack to the Future’ competition - ‘blowing away’ judges with a design that filters polluted air – helping the 8m people in the UK who suffer the often-crippling effects of asthma.
Believe in yourself, and anything is possible
It was whilst interning as an assistant teacher in a STEM school that Mengmeng Shi, AI Customer Solutions Architect at GrAI Matter Labs, first realised how accessible programming and robotics were to everyone. It was a realisation that changed the trajectory of her career.
Moving beyond manual methods: laser labelling in electronics manufacturing
The UK is home to a substantial portion of the world's contract electronics manufacturing (CEM) sector, producing high volumes of critical, high-value electronics like medical devices, automotive and telecom equipment.
Improving properties of materials in additive electronics
Many people are familiar with the negative effects hydrodynamic cavitation can have on bulk solid materials such as nautical propeller blades, fluid pump parts, and other manufacturing equipment.
Power for e-mobility
ASMPT offer solutions for the entire power module assembly process chain, one of the greatest production challenges in e-mobility.
NASA names astronauts to next Moon mission
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. The agencies revealed the crew members Monday during an event at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston.
Autism: children achieve greater autonomy with virtual and augmented reality
For World Autism Awareness Day on 2 April , the results of the project 5A (Autonomie per l’Autismo Attraverso realtà virtuale, realtà Aumentata e Agenti conversazionali; Autonomy for Autism through Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Conversational Agents) launched by the Politecnico with Fondazione Sacra Famiglia and IRCCS E. Medea - Associazione La Nostra Famiglia, with the support of Fondazione TIM, were presented at the...
Proposed merger to create a market leader in zero-emission commercial vehicles
ElectraMeccanica, a designer and assembler of electric vehicles, and Tevva, a pioneer in electric medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles have announced that they have entered into a definitive arrangement agreement, pursuant to which ElectraMeccanica and Tevva have agreed to combine by way of a British Columbia statutory plan of arrangement.
AI could replace around 300 million jobs in the EU and US
In a report by investment bank Goldman Sachs, it outlined how AI could replace up to 300 million full-time jobs in the EU and US.
Airbus autonomously controls a drone from a tanker aircraft
Airbus Defence and Space and the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Airbus UpNext, have achieved in-flight autonomous guidance and control of a drone using an A310 MRTT.