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We all dream of being our own boss, but living that dream is a rare reality. Not
so for employees at Isthmus Engineering
and Manufacturing, an entirely worker-owned cooperative, where each member has a vote in every aspect of the business.
Manufacturing employees have always kept their eyes on the robotic systems that continue to pop up in assembly lines and industrial workspaces. These metallic, low-maintenance robotic
employees don’t waste time with smoke breaks or catching up on episodes of Lost. They tend to stick to the task at hand with little argument or attitude, giving human counterparts a bad name when they gripe about factory temperatures or lack of a decent dental plan.
Never has generating alternative sources of energy been so fun. All that
excess energy children have bottled up now helps power lighting for remote African villages.
Leonardo DaVinci is credited with the idea first, as is the case with many engineering innovations; although, somewhere in China there may be a continuously variable transmission etched into an ancient cave dwelling.
Scientists have been hard at work creating a robotic system with the capabilities to sweep and collect
garbage in urban environments. This real-world Wall-E is known as the DustBot, aimed at designing, developing, testing and demonstrating a system for improving the management of urban hygiene.
Building a mast that extends as high as a 12-story building with the capability to support a full-size 50 kg camera in potential high winds is no easy task.
Dust, soil broken rock and other related materials that blanket
planetary surfaces—known as regolith—have great potential to contribute to space observation research, but the physical properties of lunar regolith are unique and very difficult to excavate from a technical perspective. A group of students at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, dubbed the Lunar Miners, decided to
step up to the plate—that is, by entering the 2008 NASA Regolith
Excavation Challenge.