💡 Innovation
☀ Molecule can store solar energy for 18 years
Researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an energy system that can capture solar energy and store it for up to eighteen years. Together with a micrometer-thin thermoelectric generator, the system can then convert solar energy into...
🕷 World’s smallest robots could help with surgeries and maintenance
For those who are into popular culture, nanobots are a familiar concept. Tiny robots that can move around unnoticed, even inside the human body, and perform remarkable tasks. On May 25, engineers at Northwestern University in Chicago posted a paper on their...
🏗 VR provides better and cheaper construction
Mistakes and miscalculations on a construction site that are discovered when construction is already in full swing can be very expensive.Now, researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a user-friendly VR interface that can be...
🌱 Drones plant 40,000 seeds per day
Using a fleet of highly advanced “octocopters,” this Australian start-up called AirSeed Technologies fights deforestation and biodiversity loss. By combining artificial intelligence with specially designed seed pods, the start-up can fire new seeds into...
