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Xcelerating Innovation, Honda-Style

For the past five years, Honda Innovations, part of the automaker’s R&D enterprise, has been quietly running a collaborative, open-innovation program at six locations around the world. Known as the...

COVID-19: Siemens Connects Providers and Designers to Produce Components

In response to the ongoing global health crisis caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, Siemens is making its Additive Manufacturing (AM) Network along with its 3D...

White Hat Hackers Join Fight Against COVID-19

To help speed up efforts to find a vaccine for COVID-19, white hat hackers and computer experts are engaging in crowdsourced simulations aimed at better understanding how the virus behaves.

Engineers Stress-Testing Disinfected N95 Masks for Reuse

The N95 respirator mask is often the first line of defense against COVID-19 for many medical professionals. University of Michigan engineers have been working to address the current...

Encoders Are Vital to Essential Manufacturing

At Encoder Products Company (EPC), we are frequently asked – even by engineers – what IS an encoder, anyway? This video gives you an overview of what encoders are and how they fit into motion...

UC Berkeley Launches 'Pop-Up' COVID-19 Testing Lab — In 3 Weeks

In just three weeks, the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley built a robotic COVID-19 laboratory.

How ZF Is Engineering Working from Home

Cheri Sczepanski is one of 2,700 members of ZF’s Foundation Brakes Engineering group who are coping with the COVID-19 shutdowns by finding humor where they can. When teams now working from homes in...

LifeSignals Fast Tracks Introduction of Single-Use Wireless Medical Biosensor Patches for COVID-19

LifeSignals Group Inc. has announced that a single use, wireless biosensor patch for the early detection and monitoring of coronavirus symptoms...

Mattress and Other Sleep Product Manufacturers Mobilizing to Help with Medical Supplies During COVID-19 Crisis

The International Sleep Products Association (ISPA) has announced that its members have mobilized to help meet the medical supply...

Circadia Health Commits $3 million in Respiratory Monitors to Global COVID-19 Efforts

Circadia Health has announced $3 million in medical devices and services toward COVID-19 relief efforts across the globe. The company has expedited the...

Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production

Medtronic plc has announced that it is publicly sharing the design specifications for the Puritan Bennett™ 560 (PB 560) to...

Sense Accelerates Instrument-Free Molecular Diagnostic Test for COVID-19

Sense Biodetection Ltd. has announced an accelerated program to launch the world’s first instrument-free, point-of-care molecular diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2, the...

Amada Miyachi America Changes Company Name to Amada Weld Tech

Amada Miyachi America Corp., which manufactures welding, marking, cutting, and micromachining equipment and systems, has changed its name to Amada Weld Tech. Amada Miyachi America...

University of Minnesota Medical Devices Center Creates New Ventilator

UMN anesthesiology fellow Stephen Richardson partnered with the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center, directed by ME Professor Arthur Erdman, to create a prototype for a...

COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Shows Promise

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have announced a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. When tested in mice, the vaccine,...

Stretchy Electronics for Next Generation Smart Devices

A new manufacturing process could produce flexible electronics for things like virtual reality-enabled contact lenses, solar-powered skins that mold to the contours of your car, and...

GM and Honda to Jointly Develop Honda’s Electric Vehicles

General Motors and Honda announced on April 2, 2020 that Honda’s next generation of electric vehicles (EVs) will be jointly developed by the two companies, but will be “based...

Atomic Chains in Nanotubes Push the Electronics Frontier

Wearable tech and electronic cloth may be the way of the future, but to get there the wiring needs to be strong, flexible, and efficient.

New Etching Technique Produces Far Smaller Semiconductors

Microelectronics like semiconductor devices are at the heart of the technologies we use each day. As we move into an era where we are stretching the limits of Moore’s Law, it is...

Ultra-Low Power Chip for IoT Wi-Fi

More portable, fully wireless smart home setups; lower power wearables; batteryless smart devices, could all be made possible with this new ultra-low power Wi-Fi radio. It is housed in a chip smaller than...

Foldable Robots for Future Moon Mission

The newest edition of NASA's small, foldable robots successfully traversed rugged terrain in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

COVID-19 Response: 'Pneumask' is a Reusable Snorkeling Mask

Personal protective equipment, or PPE, is vital for healthcare workers in a crisis like COVID-19. Many hospitals have run out of N95 masks and other PPE like face masks, face...

System Identifies, Tracks, and Captures Enemy Drones

Sandia National Laboratories robotics experts are working on a way to intercept enemy unmanned aircraft systems mid-flight. The government and defense industry have been exploring ways to...

Virgin Orbit Designs Mass-Producible Ventilator for COVID-19 Patients

Virgin Orbit, which builds and operates satellite launchers, has developed a new mass-producible bridge ventilator to help in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19)...

Medical Robots' Role Expands as COVID-19 Outbreak Continues

Robots are in high demand as medical professionals seek hands-free ways to disinfect environments and contain the spread of coronavirus and COVID-19.

FDA Creates New Program to Expedite Development of Coronavirus Treatments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established new program specifically geared toward expediting the development of potentially safe and effective...

Battle Tank Protection Systems Outfit Four Brigades of Army Tanks

Trophy Active Protection Systems will ultimately outfit four brigades of tanks.

Deformation Sensing in Soft Bio-Surrogate Materials

Accurate measurement of deformations occurring within or on soft materials will advance the next class of soft robotics and wearable biomedical sensors.