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Scalable Agile Beam Radar Migrates to Multiple Platforms

Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully integrated the advanced AN/APG-83 SABR system onto multiple configurations of F-16 aircraft and is now taking the next step in expanding...

Automate Show 2019: Introducing New Robots to North America

On day one of the Automate show in Chicago, Stäubli introduced its new TS2 four-axis robots to the North American market.

WCX 2019: The AV “Money Race” Is On

Automated-and-connected vehicles may be on a longer adoption path than the hype around them suggests, but AVs and their related technologies will eventually become a multi-trillion-dollar market,...

WCX 2019: Regulators Grapple with Autonomous Challenges

The long reach of autonomous vehicles clearly extends to the regulatory environment, which will undergo changes that are as significant as those seen in the discipline of engineering...

WCX 2019: Validation Can’t Replace Roadway Tests

Simulations and validations are necessary elements in the development of driverless cars, but they aren’t going to fully replace real world testing. Virtual testing will help engineers...

General Atomics Moves Toward Global RPA Flight Certification for MQ-9B SkyGuardian

A General Atomics Aeronautical System, Inc. (GA-ASI) MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) was controlled – from takeoff to landing – by an...

WCX 2019: Mobileye’s Quest for Super-Human Perception

Human drivers typically approach driving by following traffic rules and exercising a sense of caution in certain driving situations and road conditions. So, it makes sense that...

WCX 2019: IAMTS Association Will Establish Standardization and Testing for Connected Vehicles

In pursuit of developing and growing an international portfolio of advanced mobility testbeds that meet the highest quality implementation and...

Nanoscale Organic Transistors Tailored for High or Low Current Densities

In the field of inorganic semiconductors, dimensions below 100 nanometers are already standard. However, organic semiconductors have not been able to keep up. In...

Fast, Flexible Ionic Transistors for Bioelectronic Devices

Many major advances in medicine, especially in neurology, have been sparked by recent advances in electronic systems that can acquire, process, and interact with biological...

Miniature, High-Performance, Low-Cost 5G Transceiver Design

Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have devised a strategy to support high-speed mobile data access using the millimeter-wave spectrum for a fifth-generation (5G)...

2019 HEICE Symposium Kicks off Week of Valuable Engineering Insights

The 2019 SAE High Efficiency Internal Combustion Engine (HEICE) Symposium kicked off a week’s worth of SAE World Congress events in Detroit on Sunday, April 7. Now in...

UTC’s Project 804 Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator May Increase Regional Jet Efficiency by 30 Percent

United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is collaborating with its subsidiaries Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace to develop a...

WCX 2019: Start Your Self-Driving Racecars

The world’s first electric driverless racecars are about to hit the accelerator pedal. “In order to create this new type of motorsport, we had to design and build vehicles—because they didn’t...

WCX 2019: Cybersecurity Hackers Help Vet Vehicle Systems

They’re non-traditionalists who wear white hats. They are the now well-known “whitehat” researchers who help identify and catch cybersecurity vulnerabilities. While the general...

Engineers Balance Today’s Programs with Tomorrow’s Mobility Future

Engineers are seeing the automotive industry pivot to advanced mobility. It’s a changing landscape with new lifeblood for the internal combustion engine and a...

“The Grid” Promises to Be the Most Advanced Electric Propulsion Laboratory in the Aerospace Industry

Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), has laid out its plans for what is calling “The Grid” –...

Toilet Seat Detects Congestive Heart Failure

A toilet-seat based cardiovascular monitoring system aims to lower the hospital readmission rates of patients with congestive heart failure. The toilet seats, which would be purchased by...

Wearable Device Captures Cancer Cells from Blood

A prototype wearable device, tested in animal models, can continuously collect live cancer cells directly from a patient’s blood. The device could be an alternative to biopsy and could help...

Nanocomposite Heart Valve Helps High-Risk Patients

Researchers have created the first-ever nanocomposite biomaterial transcatheter heart-valve developed to reduce or eliminate complications related to heart transplants. By using a newly...

4D Printed Materials Show Promise for Tiny Implantables

Engineers have created flexible, lightweight materials with 4D printing that could lead to better soft robotics and tiny implantable biomedical devices. The stiffness can be adjusted...

Grayhill Touch Encoder Reimagines the User Experience

Grayhill’s Touch Encoder reimagines the user experience by combining the functionality of conventional touch displays, keypads, and rotary switches that can support multiple languages or...

ISS Space-Grown Crystals Could Be Key to Understanding Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson’s disease affects over five million people. Research on the International Space Station could provide insight into the chronic neurodegenerative disease, to...

Wichita State’s National Center for Advanced Materials Performance Partners with SAE International to Standardize Lightweight Aerospace Materials

The National Center for Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP) of Wichita State University...

Renesas Pet Activity Monitor

You like to stay active. Now, you can ensure your pet does too! With the Renesas pet activity monitor, you can check both motion and sound with Fido or Fluffy. The good news is that the monitor is also a reference...

Woven into Clothing, 'Smart' Threads Sense Gases

The dyed threads change color when they detect a variety of gases.

New-Mobility Visionary Burns: Automated Driving ‘Getting Close’

Asserting that the potential for outsized economic and social gains connected with automated driving are huge, Lawrence D. Burns, delivering a keynote address at this...

Sensuron Enables Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring Onboard NASA’s X-56 UAV

In contrast to the stiff, rigid wings found on most commercial aircraft, flexible wing technology is considered essential to next generation, fuel efficient...