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Next-Generation Linear and Rotary Stages: When Ultra Precision Movement Is a Must

Achieving advanced, modern motion performance often feels like a battle against physics. Designers face tradeoffs among speed, precision, and cost, while...

Humanity’s Next Lunar Adventure Begins

As humans return to the Moon, astronauts will experience the lunar far side in ways never before possible—observing the entire Moon from orbit with trained eyes, advanced cameras, and real-time...

New Sensors Take the Chill Out of Flight

Icing is one of aviation’s deadliest hazards, but new sensor technology could change that. By using infrared lasers and microwave detectors, pilots can now spot dangerous supercooled droplets before...

Meeting the Demands of Defense Production and Sustainment Through Additive Manufacturing

When a chilled water pump failed aboard a U.S. guided missile destroyer, maintainers ran into an all-too-familiar problem. The six-blade cooling rotor...

How Airbus is Using w-DED to 3D Print Larger Titanium Airplane Parts

Airbus is using wire‑directed energy deposition (w‑DED) to 3D print titanium aircraft parts at much larger scales than earlier additive manufacturing methods allowed....

Can This Self-Healing Composite Make Airplane and Spacecraft Components Last for Centuries?

Researchers have created a self-healing composite that is tougher than materials currently used in aircraft wings, turbine blades and other...

Army Unveils New Prototype M1E3 Abrams Tank

The U.S. Army unveiled the first M1E3 Abrams early prototype at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit recently.

See Infant Star Images Via NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

Watch this video to see pictures of protostars -- newly developing stars shrouded in thick dust -- courtesy of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings

Researchers have created the world’s smallest programmable, autonomous robots: microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their surroundings, operate for months, and cost just a penny each.

How Mercedes' MMA Platform Redefines Electrification

Mercedes' 2027 CLA shows how the road to electrification won’t be one-size-fits-all. Built on the brand’s new MMA architecture, the CLA can be produced as a full EV or a mild hybrid with...

Technology

What is the first noninvasive transdermal system approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to assess kidney function without blood draws or urine samples?

Greener Energy? Drinkable Seawater? This Sodium-Ion Battery Breakthrough May Deliver Just that

Researchers detail how an existing sodium-based material, sodium vanadium oxide, can perform significantly better when the water it naturally contains is not removed.

How Much Do You Know About the History of Military Drones?

How much do you know about the historical evolution of military drone technology? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

Differentiable Contact Unlocks Real-World Locomotion Control

By smoothing hard contact dynamics inside a fully differentiable simulation, robust locomotion controllers can be learned efficiently without sacrificing physical fidelity. The...

How Time-Aware Control Makes Robots Faster, Gentler, and Smarter

Treating time as an explicit dimension of control enables robots to dynamically balance speed, precision, and robustness. By modulating how quickly time "elapses" internally, a...

European Researchers Leverage AI in Manufacturing Rocket Parts

Artificial Intelligence (AI), promises many benefits in all domains, and rocketry is no different. The European Space Agency’s Future Launchers Preparatory Program(FLPP) is...

SpaceRAN Demonstrator Will Test 5G Connectivity on Software-Defined Satellite

Satellite connectivity is essential for global communications, and Airbus is leveraging its experience in satellites to test the capabilities of a 5G...

Blue Origin Tests Gravity-Independent Fuel Cells for Lunar Lander Program

In a key milestone for future human spaceflight, Nimbus Power Systems announced the successful completion of shock and vibration tests on Nimbus’ gravity-independent...

This AI Can Predict Future X-Rays

An AI system that can predict what a patient’s knee X-ray will look like a year in the future could transform how millions of people with osteoarthritis understand and manage their condition, according to research by the University of Surrey.

Artificial Tendons Give Muscle-Powered Robots a Boost

Our muscles are nature’s actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate...

World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots: microscopic swimming machines that can...

Bio-Hybrid Robots Turn Food Waste into Functional Machines

Although many roboticists today turn to nature to inspire their designs, even bioinspired robots are usually fabricated from non-biological materials like metal, plastic, and...

Building Bots on a Budget

Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Yufeng Chi is part of a team of Berkeley engineers that has developed Berkeley Humanoid Lite, a low-cost, open-source robot made of...