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Videos: Automotive
The University of Michigan is partnering with the state of Michigan, Ford Motor Company, and others to develop a first-of-its-kind corridor for connected and autonomous vehicles. The...
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News: Nanotechnology
A broad portfolio of renewable materials is available now that can help the automotive industry reduce its carbon footprint. Many of these new materials exceed the...
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Videos: Software
Mechanical engineering professor Ardalan Vahidi and his team at Clemson University have found a way to help self-driving vehicles anticipate the behavior of other vehicles to reduce...
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Videos: Automotive
End-to-end trained neural networks for autonomous vehicles have shown great promise for lane stable driving, but they lack methods to learn robust models at scale and require...
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News: Materials
Designed for EV and niche applications, the first commercially viable, low cost, lightweight, all-composite wheel moves to the next phase of development with a pilot production run. The...
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INSIDER: Energy
Almost all satellites are powered by solar cells – but solar cells are heavy. While conventional high-performance cells reach up to three watts of electricity per gram,...
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INSIDER: Research Lab
New research from the University of Southampton has discovered a way to bind two negatively charged electron-like particles which could create opportunities to form novel...
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INSIDER: Energy
University of North Texas professor Anupama Kaul straddles the line between electrical engineering and materials science, which puts her in the perfect place to develop new...
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INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Machine Vision Cameras Teledyne DALSA (Waterloo, Canada) announced its new Falcon4-CLHS M4480 and M4400 cameras, based on the Teledyne e2v Lince 11.2M monochrome sensors. The new Falcon4-CLHS interface cameras have been...
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Videos: Materials
NASA engineers are exploring a new method called blown powder directed energy deposition to 3D print rocket engine parts. The method is faster and more affordable than conventional...
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Videos: Power
Managing the heat generated in electronics is a big challenge. Typically electronic technologies, designed by electrical engineers, and cooling systems, designed by mechanical engineers,...
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Videos: Aerospace
Scientists at MIT and Cardiff University have observed what may be signs of life in the clouds of Venus. While they have not found direct evidence of living organisms on the planet, if their...
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Technology Report: RF & Microwave Electronics
The plastics industry is rethinking its next generation of automotive materials to meet new demands in what it calls “the ACCESS framework” – Autonomy,...
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Question of the Week: Energy
Will 'Biomorphic' Batteries Support a Future of Tiny Robots?
A Tech Briefs TV video highlighted a rechargeable zinc battery from the University of Michigan that integrates into the structure of a robot to provide much more energy. The “biomorphic” battery, according to researchers, could provide 72x more energy for robots.
Videos: Defense
By leveraging superior design and simulation software from Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, Aerion is achieving new levels of performance in both flight and operations excellence.
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News: Energy
Things are very busy right now for heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) startup Bollinger Motors. The company, founded in June 2015, recently moved into significantly larger digs in Oak Park,...
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INSIDER: Energy
A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) developed a novel, integrated approach to track energy-transporting ions within an ultra-thin...
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INSIDER: Materials
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that asymmetric stresses within electrodes used in certain wearable electronic devices provides an important clue as to how to improve...
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INSIDER: Energy
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have created next-generation solar modules with high efficiency and good stability....
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INSIDER: Design
Like biological fat reserves store energy in animals, a new rechargeable zinc battery integrates into the structure of a robot to provide much more energy, a team led by the...
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Videos: Materials
Researchers at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created a wool-like material that remembers shape and changes form when soaked in water. The biodegradable...
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Blog: Transportation
A reader asks our expert: When it comes to autonomous vehicles, what’s best: Radar, LiDAR, or cameras?
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News: Unmanned Systems
Gartner Inc.’s annual Hype Cycle (below) has become a much-anticipated metric of the maturity and market viability of numerous technologies related to automated driving and new mobility....
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INSIDER: Propulsion
Adranos Inc., a Purdue University-affiliated company that has developed a high-performance solid rocket fuel called ALITEC for missile and space launch systems, has obtained more...
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INSIDER: Materials
Chemical weapons pose a serious threat to civilian and warfighter lives, but technology from the U.S. Army Small Business Technology Transfer program reduces those risks. Researchers developed a...
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INSIDER: Defense
Northrop Grumman Corporation received a contract from the U.S. Army’s Project Manager for Maneuver Ammunition Systems (PM-MAS) to develop the next generation airburst cartridge for...
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new modeling tool from USC engineers generates automatic indicators when data and predictions from AI algorithms are trustworthy.
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Blog: Medical
A team at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has prototyped a flexible patch containing tiny transducers for monitoring health conditions. When paired with a new algorithm, the...
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Blog: Medical
The rapid increase of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections has resulted in challenging wound complications with limited choices of effective...
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Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
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In collaboration with the Fort Wayne Metals Engineering team, Eric Dietsch focuses on supporting customers with material recommendations, product development, and education. Eric is available to help you and your company with any Nitinol-related questions or needs that you may have.

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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.