1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (429+ words) Manufacturing could become more flexible for interactive products with a new 3D-printing system developed by MIT researchers that allows objects to change their surface appearance in response to use, without relying on electronics. The system, called ShiftLens, combines optical layers…...

5+ day, 51+ min ago   (481+ words) Australian manufacturing innovation has helped a team of University of Melbourne students test-fire a 3D-printed rocket engine at an international competition, marking what CSIRO says is a first for an Australian student team at Race2Space. The rocket engine, dubbed Slinky, was…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (225+ words) CSIRO says its Lab22 Innovation Centre is helping strengthen Australia’s manufacturing sector by supporting the adoption and development of metallic additive manufacturing technologies, as local industry increasingly turns to advanced production methods. According to CSIRO, metallic additive manufacturing, or metal 3D printing,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (436+ words) Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a 3D-printable material that mimics the ability of human tissue to sort and filter molecules, with potential applications spanning medicine, robotics, water treatment and critical mineral recovery. The material, developed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (260+ words) Australian manufacturing analytics start-up MotionLogic has been named one of seven finalists in Propel-AIR 2026, an artificial intelligence and robotics program delivered by the ARM Hub AI Adopt Centre. The Newcastle-based company is developing a computer vision platform designed to measure…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (453+ words) Researchers from IMDEA Materials Institute have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm designed to improve automated manufacturing by identifying the unique operational characteristics, or “personalities”, of individual machines, even when they are the same make and model. According to IMDEA Materials…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (420+ words) A new digital manufacturing platform developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo could change how contact lenses are manufactured, with the potential to produce patient-specific lenses in as little as 20 minutes during a single visit to the optometrist. In…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (259+ words) An international research team led in part by Monash University says it has developed a commercially sized tandem solar cell that replaces the scarce metal indium with abundant tin oxide, a manufacturing advance that could support lower-cost production of high-efficiency…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (361+ words) Researchers at RMIT University have developed and tested a wastewater treatment approach that removed more than 90 per cent of microplastics by combining microbubbles and nanobubbles during the treatment process. According to RMIT, the dual-bubble method builds on the widely used…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (640+ words) Researchers at UNSW Sydney have developed a soft robotic model of the human heart designed to replicate key aspects of heart function and disease, with the aim of supporting research into cardiovascular conditions and the development of new medical devices....