About this project

Build Tomorrow is dedicated to celebrating engineers and their innovations making our lives better each day. Whether it’s nanotechnology to tackle the challenge of clean drinking water, a state-of-the-art exoskeleton helping the disabled walk again or a bomb-sniffing robot, the tools and creativity of modern engineering are expanding in life-changing ways.

Have a suggestion for other innovations we should spotlight? Send them to us at @CNN or follow using the hashtag #BuildTomorrow.

About Rachel Crane

Rachel Crane is a CNN Digital correspondent who covers innovation and pop culture. She has interviewed everyone from Elon Musk to famed futurist and Google’s director of engineering Ray Kurzweil. She studied astrophysics and rocket science at Princeton University before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies. She also received a master’s degree in news and documentary film from New York University.