Manufacturing Minute: Hummingbird Wings-Inspired Turbine

Snow on the runway can cause chaos and long, expensive, flight delays. But that could be a thing of the past after autonomous snowplows were tested for the first time.

Over the years, scientists have created soft robots that can handle delicate objects, crawl and swim, however these robots have always had a limited ability to react to the environment around them. Until now.

In an effort to help solve the over-use of ecological resources, the ecomotive team at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have built Noah, the world’s first circular car—referring to the vehicle’s sustainable production, usage

Graphene — the extremely strong and thin wonder material — may have another new use this time as edible RFID tags.