SHRIMP program seeks to advance the state-of-the art in micro-to-milli robotics platforms and underlying technology Imagine a natural disaster scenario, such as an earthquake, that inflicts... Read more
The Digital Origami Emergency Shelter was inspired by a single water molecule and is made from 100 percent recyclable materials Australian architecture firm LAVA exhibited its inhabitable... Read more
Canadian design firm Molo has created a cheap and comfortable housing innovation for disaster relief situations. Dubbed “softshelter,” the system has been designed to create pers... Read more
Tech giant Panasonic has developed a portable solar powered plant called “Life Innovation Container.” A kind of solar powered generator that can transported by rail, truck or shi... Read more
The epic flooding in Australia is the latest in a string of disasters requiring massive relief efforts, and it puts a sharp focus on the increasing need for portable, sustainable energy that... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Chaos fills battlefields and disaster zones. Artificial intelligence may be better than the natural sort at coping with it ARMIES have always been divided into officers a... Read more
A new type of balloon may make delivering people and provisions to inaccessible places easier TRANSPORTING large, clunky bits of equipment has always posed a challenge. Roads and railways do... Read more
Swarms of flying robots might sound a bit ominous to those of us anxiously awaiting the inevitable robot uprising that will see humanity drop a notch on the scale of planetary dominance. But... Read more
Image via CrunchBase On Thursday July 8, 2010, residents of Oakland took to the streets after a jury convicted police officer Johannes Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter of Oscar Grant, a... Read more