Could human-robot collaboration revitalize an outmoded business model and attract new workers?
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Remodeling the construction industry
Her fight for your rights
Could censorship end the internet as we know it? Not if Roya Ensafi can help it.
How to make the robot revolution serve the people
In the midst of outfitting a new building, Michigan roboticists shape a world where robots empower, instead of imperil, our humanity.
A face that looks like mine
Engineering is a field that remains stubbornly white and male. NextProf is designed to change that.
Give Earth [another] chance
Ross Vander Meulen is far too young to remember the 1948 Donora Smog, when air pollution over a Pennsylvania steel town grew so toxic that it killed 20 people and sickened thousands more. At 23, he doesn’t remember the Los Angeles of the 1950s, when small children sometimes fainted from the smog. It seems unimaginable to […]
Submerged
With an offer “only an idiot would refuse,” Chuck Cannon (BSE NAME ’67) was working with Global Marine, Inc.’s chief engineer John Graham on the hull design for “Glomar Explorer” – an enormous deep ocean mining ship Cannon was told would be used for an audacious Howard Hughes-backed effort to mine manganese from the ocean […]
