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It’s an elegant way to avoid urban flooding: Lay down paving tiles that soak up rain and divert it from sewers to greenery. But that innovation, the Climate Tile, is just one of the problem-solving projects we’ve named the best engineering breakthroughs of 2018. There’s also a 3D printer slated to build affordable homes in impoverished areas, and a sea life sampler that lets biologists gather marine specimens without damaging their squishy bodies. Other “bests” are a bit more whimsical: a banana that grows in the cold, vegan scrambled eggs, and robots that turn backflips 60 feet in the air.

Climate Tile by Tredje Natur (Third Nature)

Rotary Actuated Dodecahedron (RAD) by Harvard University

Mongee banana by D&T Farm

The Loupe on the Space Needle

Guardian GT robot by Sarcos

Vulcan printed housing by ICON & New Story

Morpheus Hotel by Zaha Hadid Architects

Steel Vengeance by Rocky Mountain Corporation

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