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Engineers 3D-print flat sheets that transform into curved satellite structures in space

A team led by aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor Jeff Baur has developed a low-energy, scalable technique that ...

This spider-like robot was built to print 3D homes on the moon

Charlotte, a spider-like 3D printing robot, was developed jointly by Australian companies Crest Robotics and Earthbuilt ...
Machine Design

How Brakes Make or Break Medical (and Other) Robots

Learn how lessons from medical robot design can be applied to all robotics from cobots to humanoids and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Enjoying Machine Design’s Motion Systems content? Be sure to ...
TribLIVE.com

Pittsburgh City Paper ends weekly print editions

Pittsburgh City Paper on Wednesday announced it is cutting its weekly print edition. Executive Editor Ali Trachta in a letter posted to the paper’s website said the alternative newspaper would ...
Hindustan Times

Amazon uses AI to make robots better warehouse workers

Automation of Amazon warehouses could cut the need to hire, particularly when it comes to temporary workers needed for peak holiday shopping demands. Amazon on Wednesday said it is speeding up the ...
The Indianapolis Star

'Censored': IU student journalists publish e-paper after print edition axed, adviser fired

The latest edition of the Indiana Daily Student was expected to be on newsstands the morning of Oct. 16 in and around the Bloomington campus. However, within a 24-hour period earlier in the week, ...
AOL

Indiana University accused of censorship after canceling student paper’s print issue

Indiana University Bloomington ordered its student-run newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, to stop printing new editions in what the editors behind it are calling an act of censorship. According to ...
The New Yorker

The Muscular Compassion of “Paper Girl”

Ever since Donald Trump was first elected President, in 2016, a slew of books have attempted to reckon with the growing divide between urban and rural populations in the United States. Few do so as ...
WTHR

Purdue student newspaper prints, delivers IU's student newspaper's canceled print edition

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Student journalism solidarity. This is what Purdue University's paper, The Exponent, says it exemplified on Friday, Oct. 17 when they stepped in to help Indiana University's ...
The Nation

Why Did Indiana University Axe Its Award-Winning Print Newspaper?

If the administration can censor the Indiana Daily Student—one of the most acclaimed student publications in the nation—then student journalism everywhere is at risk. Pedestrians on the campus of ...
Bon Appétit

Paper Fleet (Paper Planes for a Crowd)

Developed by prodigious NYC bartender Sam Ross in the early aughts as a riff on the Last Word, the Paper Plane is bright and warm, with bourbon, Aperol, and lemon juice playing against the herbal, ...
The Boston Globe

Don’t wipe your tush with the boreal

Maura Kelly is a writer based in the Boston area. Brian Rodgers is on a mission to save forests — by making documentaries about the companies destroying them. He scored a big win against Home Depot ...