The pro and cons of laser eye surgery techniques including, LASIK, LASEK and PRK.
A robotically controlled telescope in Chile is helping to identify planets 160 light-years from Earth.
Cammell Laird jumboises Nexans' cablelayer Skagerrak.
Broadcasters cut costs with studio automation.
Engineers make think of automation only on factory floors and production processes, but now it's now spreading to wine dispensing.
Hybrid-laser welding combines the advantages of laser welding and gas metal arc welding to create an alternative welding process.
The robots in the RoboCup could be a match for any World Cup team by 2050 if they continue to develop at the current rate.
Huge growth for AUV technology.
Millbrook proving ground
Millbrook is one of Europe's leading vehicle test and development locations, and is this year celebrating 40 years in the business. The track was dreamed up in the mid 1960s after Vauxhall and Bedford felt a need for a dedicated proving ground.
Battlefield technologies will be networked and integrated in the future. E&T gathers intel.
Space junk could be the cause of satellite failures.
Forensic fact or fiction?
Deep under the ice of Antarctica, a telescope is taking shape - not one in the conventional sense of the word, based around optics or a radio dish, but a huge array of optical sensors designed to look for sub-atomic particles called neutrinos, explains E&T.
Carriers underway
The UK’s new aircraft carriers are taking shape in an artificial world that looks out over the sea high above Portsmouth, home of the Royal Navy.
Urine could move from being a waste product to become a useful fuel, if researchers in Bristol get their way.
From Abbey Road to prehistoric zoology, E&T videos span the engineering and technology community.
Mechatronics is a unification of two technical elements (mechanics and electronics), but it is used nowadays in a wider sense as a noun and employed in company names, magazine titles and department names in universities.
To optimize the use of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and deliver high-performance data acquisition, National Instruments created NI signal streaming technology. NI signal streaming combines three innovative hardware and software-level design elements to enable sustained high-speed and bidirectional data streams over USB.
The mainstream media outlets are full of depressing news stories about high profile bankruptcies, factory closures and redundancies. Even the technical trade press has an air of panic around it. You could be forgiven for feeling that the world has gone into meltdown, that we’ll all be out of work soon and facing a bleak future.
Addressing two of the most frequently asked questions relating to machinery safety regulations and standards.
Control commentary
Deepwater Horizon Drilling Platform Explosion 13 July 2010
There has been widespread coverage of the Gulf of Mexico disaster in many news papers since the 21st April, when the explosion started. The report, which is more interesting to control systems engineers, was published in The Times of the 18th May.
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