Subjects: General

Model engineer Jerry Kieffer has built an exact replica of his beloved 1947 Harley-Davidson, at 1/8 the size of the original.

The staff who work at Otherlab take on big problems, including how to make big inflatable robots move.

Sports technologists help rowers improve their speed and performance by using instrumentation to maximize the athletes’ positive forces.

MIT undergraduate student Stephan Boyer has developed a partially self-balancing electric unicycle to enable him to get around a busy university campus.

New sports mouthguards crammed with electronics provide real-time information to help protect an athlete’s brain from damage caused by concussion.

A remote-controlled eye-in-the-sky with an onboard computer and camera will help firefighters track and deal with wildfires.

Learn how to drive a powerful tugboat using a tugboat simulator, then see what it takes to control a real tugboat in Vancouver harbour.

Off the California coast, oceanographers deploy a robotic ear to measure noise in the ocean.

Experience another of automotive artist Randy Grubb’s creations – the Decoliner – a fanciful vehicle inspired by 1930s art-deco trailers.

Flight-enabled robots construct a six-metre-tall structure designed to be the prototype for a vertical village housing 30,000 people.