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Archive for November, 2011

AT MATTIUSSI WE MANUFACTURE AND SUPPLY DESIGNED AND HIGH QUALITY INDOOR AND OUTDOOR RECYCLING CONTAINERS FOR HOUSEHOLD, COMMERCIAL AND ON-STREET RECYCLING.

Green Peas Solutions Ltd. advances the adoption of sustainable and reusable packaging solutions in the after sales service markets to cut cost and save the environment.

Our Think Tank has previously mentioned the challenges with fracking and ground water, and the potential earthquake issues. Most of the problems can be easily mitigated depending on the geological make-up of the regions where such resources are. There was a heavy hitting article recently in the UK about fracking stating it "may cause earthquakes" - well like I said, not a revelation here.

SLR provides multidisciplinary advice from in-house experts on a wide range of strategic and site specific environmental and sustainability issues. In particular, we specialise in providing strategic advice to both public and private sector clients and have a broad base of blue chip customers in the energy, waste management, planning and development, infrastructure, manufacturing and mining sectors. SLR is organised on both business sector and technical discipline lines so that we have both tech...

Ashtead Technology Ltd specialises in supplying the inspection, test and monitoring equipment and instruments. Our environmental monitoring fleet is second to none in the choice of equipment available and number of applications they can be used for. Our clients are found across a wide range of industries and include environmental consultancy and engineering, waste and recycling, surveying, waste and wastewater, drainage and sewerage, emissions and pollution monitoring to name a few. ...

Harvard Scientists created a bizarre Gumby-like robot that is flexible enough to slide under tight spaces. The robot is composed of soft materials (elastomeric polymers). The robot's design is inspired by animals that do not have hard internal skeletons, such as squid, starfish and worms. The researchers used soft lithography to fabricate a pneumatically actuated robot capable of sophisticated locomotion. The quadrupedal robot uses no sensors. It has five actuators and a simple pneumatic valving system that operates at low pressures (< 10 psi). In the video the robot manages to fit through a narrow opening under a pane of glass using a combination of crawling and undulation gaits. Take a look:



A couple more videos showing the soft robot moving can be found here on the Nature news blog.

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