The biggest design feats of COVID-19 are medical devices that can be Frankensteined together with the parts that are available—not necessarily the parts you want. “We never came into this with the ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. When President Trump arrives in Michigan Thursday, he'll get a chance to see one of the success stories of ...

Eight years ago, a group of BYU engineering students started a project to create a neonatal ventilator for premature babies born in third-world countries. Today, several iterations later, that ...

A deal between Medtronic and the Foxconn Technology Group to make ventilators at the Foxconn facility in Mount Pleasant is off — and has been off since November. In June, during the early months of ...

South African aerospace and military technology company Denel has said two projects to design and manufacture local ventilators to be used for the treatment of Covid-19 patients have reached critical ...

As the saying goes, “give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach them to fish and you can feed them for a lifetime.” This lesson rings especially true for LifeMech, a nonprofit volunteer ...

It’s impossible to say no one saw a pandemic coming. In December 2007, a user of the how-to site Instructables uploaded plans for “The Pandemic Ventilator,” a do-it-yourself machine made out of ...

Less than two months after they started to design a low-cost ventilator for emergency use, engineers and doctors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have cleared the biggest hurdle they ...

In a first on the African continent, South African manufactured ventilators are in production and the first life-saving machines will be ready in a few weeks' time. These ventilators will complement ...

A subcontractor hired to rebuild the ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant was fired by the facility's primary contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) and the $135 million contract ...

The pandemic inspired an innovative project to design and make a low-cost ventilator in weeks, not years. Credit...Gabby Jones for The New York Times Supported by By Steve Lohr This article is part of ...