Interviews about Engineering

Would you trust a robot in an emergency?

Would you trust a robot with your surgery?

Would you trust a robot in the military?

Would you trust a robot to grow your food?

How are technologies and breakthroughs made for the space race helping to make life better for us here on the ground?

Worldwide, we use over a trillion plastic bags every year. Can a caterpillar help reduce our waste?

Using bio-engineering to grow an entire human organ system in the lab - complete with connecting blood supply.

Climate change will mean more energy in the atmosphere which is bad news for airline passengers...

Cocaine-use has been linked with a build-up of iron in the brain.

One of America's most hated spiders isn't all bad: its web could teach us to make much tougher materials.

What's it like to be able to hear again with a 'bionic ear'?

What's the difference between a meteorite, an asteroid and a comet?

Naked Scientist Connie Orbach won a meteorite and Graihagh Jackson made it her mission to find out more...

How and why are they so much more efficient than a standard light bulb?

Scientists have tied the world's smallest knot; less than a millionth of a millimetre across.

Alan Calverd tells us about some interesting gold rings back in science history...

How do you navigate an empty craft through millions of miles of space?

Could a pair of trousers which track your movements help firefighters or the military?

Driverless cars could change the world- but what legal and ethical challenges do they bring with them?

Could our navigation technology actually be getting in the way of looking where we are going?

GPS is useful, but it has a number of problems, and doesn't work well inside buildings. Could a Cambridge startup...

What is GPS, and how does it tell you where you are?

How ancient mariners managed to get around, with help from coconuts!

The annual International Conference of Navigation was held in Glasgow this year, and we spoke to the president.