Engineering

Team From Berkeley Created This Robot Cockroach and It Will Creep You Out!

Cockroaches are menaces, plain and simple, because they can survive just about anywhere and are easily able to slide through tiny little openings in order to get in your house. While they are nasty to…

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Watch Japanese Samurai Master Lose to Robot Swordsman in 1,000 Cuts Battle

Isao Machii is a bona fide samurai and sword master who holds five Guinness World Records and is the embodiment of incredible concentration, discipline, and precision. Recently, Machii took on a Motoman MH24 robotic sword arm…

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Watch a NASA Physicist Conduct Experiments of Water in Zero Gravity!

Recently, a NASA physicist spent his free time experimenting with the physics of water in space. Below, you can see some awesome footage and beautiful images the form water can create when gravity is taken…

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US Army Teaming Up With Malloy Aeronautics to Further Develop Hoverbikes

UK-based Malloy Aeronautics has been working on hoverbikes for a few years now, even releasing a prototype version that made the rounds on the internet. Instead of having to continue to resort to Kickstarter to…

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Turning Colon Cancer Into Healthy Tissue with Flick of DNA Switch

Colorectal or colon cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related death, killing three-quarters of a million people a year in developed countries. According to Scott Lowe of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, “Treatment regimes…

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Wave Power: Harnessing the World’s Largest Untapped Renewable Energy Resource

IndustryTap has covered Sea Snakes, Tidal Power and a plan to harness 100 billion tons of water per day in the Bay of Fundy. Now Aquamarine Power of Scotland, which has based its wave power designs on the oyster,…

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Adult Oysters Filter Fifty Gallons of Water Per Day

Oysters, also known as “filter feeders,” not only taste good, they also have amazing capabilities. Oysters are bivalves, and they are the only bivalves that build and live on reefs. As the following video shows, oysters…

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The Art of Water Transfer Hydrographic Design

The cool designs you see on motorcycles, cars, and many other objects are achieved through a simple process known as “water transfer hydrographics.” The process, also known as “hydrographic design,” is now being more widely used…

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Drones Speed Up Inspections for Aircraft Lightning Damage

Lightning striking an airplane is a fairly common occurrence. Sometimes, the pilots are not even aware that they have been hit. Though aircraft are designed to withstand it, once a plane is hit by lightning…

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Safer Motorcyles: Advanced Ducati Stability System can Prevent Skidding

Riding a high-speed bike just got a whole lot safer and faster with a stability control system developed by Bosch. The newly-developed stability control system is being used by Ducati for its new 2015 Multistrada…

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