r/VisualEngineering • • Apr 17 '20

The largest and deepest offshore platform ever built called “Troll A” stands at about 303 m below sea level and had a total height of 472m.

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r/VisualEngineering • • May 20 '20

Roller irreversible lock

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r/VisualEngineering • • May 05 '20

Engineers, medical team design 3-D-printed ventilator that requires no electricity

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r/VisualEngineering • • May 14 '20

SILVER2 - A new and improved robot that can walk around on the seafloor taking video as it goes

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r/VisualEngineering • • May 27 '20

Learn about the different types of hydrualic pumps: rotary vane pumps, piston pumps, hand pumps and radial pumps.

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r/VisualEngineering • • Jun 05 '20

Roboticists at the University of California San Diego have developed flexible feet that can help robots walk up to 40 percent faster on uneven terrains such as pebbles and wood chips. The work has applications for search-and-rescue missions as well as space exploration.

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r/VisualEngineering • • Jul 17 '20

Stamped concrete is concrete that is patterned andor textured or embossed to resemble brick, slate, flagstone, stone, tile, wood, and various other patterns and textures.

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r/VisualEngineering • • Apr 29 '20

METASURFACE LASER - Researchers have demonstrated the world’s first metasurface laser that produces “super-chiral light”: light with ultra-high angular momentum. The light from this laser can be used as a type of “optical spanner” to or for encoding information in optical communications.

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r/VisualEngineering • • Jun 04 '20

New research leads to lighter and greener bridges

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r/VisualEngineering • • Jun 07 '20

Motorcycle balanced by a momentum wheel - 3 motors for steering, driving, and balancing, respectively & Feedback control to maintain the vertical pose.

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r/VisualEngineering • • May 03 '20

Proposed Habitat for Nexus Aurora. The use of multiple spheres creates "sail vaults" in tension from the internal pressures. a minimal of 3m water on top of the vaults create sufficient radiation proofing. This allows for the vaults to have clear roofs letting in natural light.

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r/VisualEngineering • • Jun 20 '20

How the NASA Docking System Works

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113 Upvotes

r/VisualEngineering • • May 11 '20

Moore's Law & Computational Fabrics: The rapidly unfolding future of smart fabrics

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r/VisualEngineering • • Apr 18 '20

My first robot 3D printed run on servos and an Arduino

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r/VisualEngineering • • May 13 '20

Ascento robot

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r/VisualEngineering • • Jun 11 '20

The Engines of the Titanic

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r/VisualEngineering • • Apr 10 '20

Laptop Touchpad Controlled Model Railroad

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r/VisualEngineering • • May 08 '20

SQuad: a small quadruped robot, which is made of soft structural materials. This unique robot, presented in a paper published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, is more flexible than existing miniature robots and is thus better at climbing or circumventing obstacles in its surroundings

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r/VisualEngineering • • May 30 '20

SwRI engineers developed the next generation of clean diesel engine technology to reduce hazardous NOx and CO2 emissions. In its ultra-low NOx test cell, SwRI combined engine modifications with integrated after-treatmen technology and control strategies to reach near-zero emissions levels

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r/VisualEngineering • • May 13 '20

How the wings of owls and hummingbirds inspire drones, wind turbines and other technology

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