Researchers Create World's First 3D-Printed Jet Engines

The people at Deakin University, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), and researchers from Australia's Monash University have created the world's first 3D-printed jet engine. Led by Prof. Xinhua Wu, the team using an old gas turbine engine contributed by Microturbo (Safran), they took the engine apart, and scan all the individual components. Using computer models obtained from those scans, a laser was then utilized to selectively melt metal alloy powder, building up two copies of each component in successive layers. When those parts were subsequently assembled, two metal replicas of the original engine were produced. The project took a year to complete, and received funding from multiple groups including the Australian Research Council. 

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SuperDroid Build a Remote Control Snow Plow 

The SuperDroid of Raleigh, North Carolina build a remote-controlled robotic snow plow that allows you to clear the drive while sitting where it’s warm with a cup of cocoa. The robotic snow plow is based on a welded 3/16-in (4.7 mm) aluminum chassis and measures 63.5 in (161 cm) long. Powered by two 12 V batteries, each of the six wheels equipped with tiller tires has an electric IG90 24VDC 127 RPM gear motor with chain-coupled axles for better traction. According to SuperDroid, this arrangement is strong enough to tow a pickup truck. The remote control snow plow cost $8,000.

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A Robot that could Make Drugs

Scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester have built a robot name Eve, an artificially-intelligent "robot scientist" that was made to shorten development time and increase economy. According to the University of Cambridge, pharmaceutical research is stuck in a terrible bottleneck. It can take 10 years and US $1 billion to create a new drug – time during which many people continue to suffer and that money needs to be recouped somehow. By the short time Eve was out it prove that is not only faster and cheaper than its human counterparts, but has already identified a compound that could be used to fight malaria The research team says that Eve currently does not have the capability to synthesize compounds that it can design based on its tests, but this could be added to future versions.

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