Nature Inspires Ideas
Hands Craft Beauty
Inventions, Breakthroughs, and Progress
Scaling Innovations to Serve Many
When Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 storm, came ashore on August 29, its 150mph winds tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland U.S. The storm ravaged a great deal of infrastructure and housing, including Louisiana’s underfunded and neglected network of underground water pipes. According to the Louisiana Department of Health, 191 […]
Advertisement
As forest fires continue to devastate large parts of the American West, a new drone has been deployed to California to help officials fight the flames. This drone is the Mavic Pro Quadcopter and it helps crews gain different vantages on fires, giving them new information. It can be used when there is a lot […]
Engineers have made prostate biopsies more accurate.
Engineers discovered that combining pneumatic technology with electronic actuators can create an air-powered computer memory that can be used to control soft robots. Soft robots are made of stretchable materials with reversible and variable properties, whereas traditional robots are built from rigid materials. Soft robots also use pressurized air which allows them to flexibly move […]
