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Sound The Alarm: Robots Are Disrupting (Far Too Few) Jobs
It has become an article of faith that workers today are experiencing almost unprecedented levels of labor-market disruption and insecurity: Robots are automating factory jobs, kicking lunch-pail...
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A Snake On A Plane: This Longed-Arm Robot Will Help Fix Aircraft Engines
When Hong Kong started planning a road tunnel 50 meters (164 feet) below sea level in 2012, local engineers had to find a way to keep the cutters in the massive boring shield in shape and the blades...
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The World’s Largest Jet Engine Starts Certification Testing
Everything that has happened to this point — the hundreds of hours of bombardment with ice, the exposure to dust and debris that simulated 3,000 takeoffs and landings — was just the prelude. In recent...
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GE Is Building The World’s Largest ‘Additive’ Machine For 3D Printing Metals
3D printing is growing up. Literally. GE Additive, a new GE business dedicated to supplying 3D printers, materials and engineering consulting services, announced today it is developing the world’s...
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3D-Printed ‘Bionic’ Parts Could Revolutionize Aerospace Design
3D printing is making news at this year’s Paris Air Show. The two largest aircraft builders, Airbus and Boeing, brought here advanced planes powered by LEAP jet engines with 3D-printed fuel nozzles....
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Swimming With The Tide: A Baja Port To Deploy GE’s First Advanced Gas...
The Mexican seaside town of Ahome sits on a spit of land lapped by the clear, blue waters of Baja California. Its white, sandy beaches can rival any in Mexico, but the view isn’t all a tourist would...
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GE, CFM Expect $15 Billion In New Business In Paris; New LEAP Engines Are...
Low fuel prices and more airplanes in the air are taking us into a new golden age for aviation, according to the mood here at the 2017 Paris Air Show, which starts on Monday. Data from the...
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An Epiphany Of Disruption: GE Additive Chief Explains How 3D Printing Will...
Jet engines are large and complicated machines. But sometimes surprisingly small parts can make a big difference in how they work.A decade ago, engineers at CFM International, a joint venture between...
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Back To The Future: This Plane Will Make The Jet Set Feel Supersonic Again
The Concorde, the iconic pointy-nosed supersonic jet that shuttled passengers between Paris, London, New York and other choice destinations, landed for the last time 14 years ago, after 27 years in...
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The Great Paris Air Show Scavenger Hunt for GE Technology
If Paris is a moveable feast then the Paris Air Show is an airborne one. The show, which takes place every two years at Le Bourget Airport, is the world’s largest and oldest aerospace event and brings...
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How Free Trade Agreements Affect You, Even If They Don’t Affect Your Country
In this increasingly connected world, the number of trade agreements is expanding globally, not contracting, despite political rhetoric. Evaluating current trade agreements, even those that don’t...
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Comeback Kids: This Company Gives Old Wind Turbine Blades A Second Life
At 16 years old, Fenner Wind Farm, near Syracuse, New York, is one of the oldest wind farms in the United States. While the towering wind turbines show little sign of slowing down — they churn out...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week, researchers unlocked the secrets of underwater stickiness by reverse-engineering octopus tentacles, mended broken bones with a pioneering new stem cell therapy and built a silicon chip that...
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Reverse Engineering Mysterious 500-Million-Year-Old Fossils That Confound Our...
With no identifiable body parts, it’s hard to know how these fossilized creatures lived. A new approach models how the ocean’s water would interact with their unique shapes – hinting at their...
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Engines With 3D-Printed Parts Lift GE, Partners Over $31 Billion In Paris Air...
Next-generation passenger jets powered by engines with 3D-printed parts dominated the 2017 Paris Air Show.GE and its partners have received more than $31 billion in new business at the show, which...
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Let’s Upgrade NAFTA To Compete With The World
International trade agreements typically only pique the interest of trade experts, economists or diplomats. One trade agreement, however, has become a household name in the United States – the North...
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Learning By Heart: 3D Printing Could Help Save Lives One Day
As a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, Richard Trimlett knows a few things about the heart. He and his colleagues in the U.K. perform 35,000 heart surgeries every year on...
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Dirty Jobs: How Baltimore’s ‘Mr. Trash Wheel’ Collected 1 Million Pounds of...
Mr. Trash Wheel— the world’s first sustainably-powered trash collector— has removed over 9 million cigarette butts, nearly 500,000 polystyrene containers and close to 400,000 plastic bottles from...
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The Fixer: Rebuilding Medical System In Cambodia Includes A Lesson In Mechanics
It was almost midnight Dec. 7, 2015 when Phil Camillocci got off a plane in Phnom Penh, Cambodia — the last leg of a 20-hour journey from West Palm Beach, Florida. He was carrying a large suitcase...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A real flying car landed at the Paris Air Show, Michelin unveiled a vision for 3D-printed tires you will never have to replace, and a team in North Carolina developed a smart patch that “harvests” body...
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