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EmpowHERing engineering: INWED spotlights need for real female role models

EmpowHERing engineering: INWED spotlights need for real female role models

To celebrate INWED (23 June), Group Editor Sophia Bell delves into the importance of celebrating everyday heroes, recognising the crucial role of parents in shaping their children's career choices, and advocating for a shift towards positive perspectives in fostering equality within the engineering field.

From chatbot to chat-botanist: ChatGPT designs tomato-harvesting robot

From chatbot to chat-botanist: ChatGPT designs tomato-harvesting robot

Poems, essays, books – is there anything ChatGPT can’t do? Could ChatGPT design a robot? And does this pose a risk to the design process? Researchers find out.

London’s pandemic recovery unmasks the power of machine learning

London’s pandemic recovery unmasks the power of machine learning

An innovative monitoring tool used during the height of the pandemic has revealed just how beneficial computer vision and machine learning could be to public health.

We need to shine a spotlight on engineering in schools, urge academics

We need to shine a spotlight on engineering in schools, urge academics

The way to tackle the two biggest issues facing the industry – namely, labour shortages and reaching net zero – is to make engineering more visible in education, according to a new poll.

Metaverse: The coolest solution to combat climate change

Metaverse: The coolest solution to combat climate change

Cutting-edge research from Cornell University suggests that the metaverse may hold the key to tackling climate change.

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