Engineering themes
Robotics
A total of 36 items listed.
Learning code with robots
Richard Hopkins FREng
Engineer Richard Hopkins FREng uses his robotic designs to inspire young people and encourage them to pursue an interest in engineering.
Hands as machines
Geoff Watts
Shadow Robot Company’s mechanical Dexterous Hand is being employed to do the jobs that human hands cannot.
Robotic assistance
Geoff Watts
Engineering researchers are developing robotic systems that are assisting doctors during surgery, helping to make procedures more efficient and reducing the time that patients have to spend in the operating theatre.
Hives of activity
Neil Cumins
Ocado’s new automated warehouse in Erith has thousands of robots collaborating to pick and pack customer grocery orders.
The automation of dairy farms
Geoff Watts and John Baines
Robotiic milking is not a new innovation but the systems are increasingly being adopted by UK dairy farms and are now being engineered to do more than just milk cows.
Robotics and AI – driving the UK’s industrial strategy
Professor Guang-Zhong Yang CBE FREng
Professor Guang-Zhong Yang CBE FREng sets out how investment in robotics and AI could improve innovation in the UK and secure our place as a world leader in the technologies.
Engineering personality into robots
Richard Gray
Advances in technology are being used to give robots character and making the futuristic machines seen in sci-fi films real
Intelligent prosthetics
Richard Gray and Professor Saeed Zahedi OBE FREng
Blatchford has been awarded the 2016 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award for its prosthetic limb with smart robotics
Assuring safety and security in RAS, The future of energy storage
Martyn Thomas CBE FREng and Dr Jill Cainey
Professor David Lane CBE FREng rightly emphasises the need to build public trust in these systems (‘Robotics and autonomous systems – affecting everything that moves’, Ingenia 67).
Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, Engineering award winners, Living without electricity report, The UK STEM education landscape, Bridge building in Rwanda, UK student wins international engineering prize, British rocket propels Juno to Jupiter
Ingenious awards, First UK Robotics Week, Enterprise Fellowships awarded, Celebrating women engineers, Geared up for Olympic success, Engineering season at the V&A
