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Army Research Lab's Top Ten Technology Advances of 2018

Dr. Alexander Kott, the chief scientist of the RDECOM Research Laboratory (the U.S. Army’s corporate research lab) picked the top technology advances of the year from Army scientists...

CES Preview: New Cybersecurity Challenges for Increasingly Connected Cars

Irdeto's Stacy Janes tells Tech Briefs if he feels safe driving today's connected cars.

Artificial Joint and Bone Implants Restore Wrist Motion in Forearm Amputees

Researchers from the Biomechatronics and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory at Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology demonstrate the restoration of natural wrist...

Astronaut Garbage Is a Serious Operational Concern When Travelling to the Moon and Mars

For decades, the approach to managing astronaut refuse has involved temporarily storage and then disposal – either by returning it to Earth or by...

Marvin Test Solutions Tailors GX3800e PXI Express FPGA Module for Test, Automation, Instrumentation Engineering

Marvin Test Solutions Inc., a global provider of test solutions for aerospace, defense, and manufacturing, in Irvine, California,...

Answering Your Questions: How Consumer-Grade and Industrial-Grade Lithium-Ion Batteries Handle the Cold

A reader asks: How does an “industrial-grade” lithium-ion battery stack up to the one in your phone?

InSight Measures Motion on Mars

NASA’s InSight lander has provided the first ever "sounds" of Martian winds on the Red Planet. Sensors captured a haunting low rumble caused by vibrations from the wind, estimated to be blowing between...

Artificial Joint Restores Wrist-Like Movements

A new artificial joint restores important wrist-like movements to forearm amputees. In the new joint, an implant is placed into each of the two bones of the forearm and a wrist-like artificial...

Boeing Delivers First Airplane from New 737 Completion and Delivery Center in Zhoushan, China

Boeing and joint venture partner Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd (COMAC) marked the delivery of the first aircraft from the new 737...

USAF Take Rates Continue to Drop Despite Retainment Bonuses

Despite the May 2018 decision to increase the cap for pilot retainment bonuses – or “take rates” – the United States Air Force (USAF) is still suffering from a major pilot...

Northrop Grumman Tests, Qualifies Orion Launch Abort Motor for Flight in Cold Conditions

Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE:NOC), NASA, and Lockheed Martin engineers brought the Orion spacecraft one step closer to its first flight atop NASA’s...

Improving Performance of Hybrid-Electric Aircraft

Although hybrid-electric cars are becoming commonplace, similar technology applied to airplanes comes with significantly different challenges. University of Illinois aerospace engineers are...

Virtual Runway, Real Pilot Practice

When a plane overshoots the final approach, often the pilot’s natural — and dangerous — instinct is to pitch the aircraft up to slow down and land. It’s one of the leading causes of accidents,...

High-Altitude Pseudo Satellites: New Battle for Inner Space, Part II

A new development applicable to the production of the Airbus Zephyr lightweight, solar unmanned aircraft is the Airbus Spider radar payload, a novel commercial...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aero Engines Completes Assembly of First Pratt & Whitney GTF PW1200G Engine

The first Pratt & Whitney PW1200G Geared Turbofan (GTF) engine assembly was completed at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aero...

Foldable Drone Flies through Narrow Holes for Rescue Missions

Inspired by birds that fold their wings in the air when space is limited, researchers from the University of Zurich and EPFL have developed a new foldable drone. The researchers...

SAE Demo Day Captures Public Perception of Autonomous Vehicles

With the goal of gaining insight into the public’s perception of self-driving technology, SAE International on Dec. 12-14 hosted its second “SAE Demo Day” at Babcock Ranch, a...

High-Altitude Pseudo Satellites: New Battle for Inner Space, Part I

Farnborough International Airshow 2018 coincided with the opening of the world’s first serial HAPS assembly line by Airbus Defence and Space, with the Farnborough-based...

RePaint: Reproducing Works of Art with 3D Printing

A new system aims to authentically recreate works of art using deep learning and 3D printing. A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) created the...

Boston Dynamics' 'Atlas' Robot Walks Naturally with Straighter Legs

With a control algorithm by IHMC Robotics, the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics demonstrates a more natural gait with straighter legs. Instead of controlling the height...

Robotic Arm May Help to Rehabilitate Chronic Stroke Victims

New research finds that robotic arm rehabilitation in chronic stroke patients with aphasia, the loss of ability to understand or express speech, may promote speech and language...

Walk This Way: Robotics Software Predicts Gait

Researchers studied eight gait parameters in order to come up with a very sophisticated software program that uses an avatar to predict how much energy people use when they walk depending on...

Fire Ant Colonies Could Inspire Swarming Robots

Think of it as mathematics with a bite: Researchers at CU Boulder have uncovered the statistical rules that govern how gigantic colonies of fire ants form bridges, ladders and floating rafts....

Robot Could One Day Fight Most Common Cancer in Men

A robot could become the weapon of choice for detecting and treating the most common cancer in men, improving results and reducing side effects. Scientists and mathematicians are working...

Insight Into Swimming Fish Could Lead to Robotics Advances

The constant movement of fish that seems random is actually precisely deployed to provide them at any moment with the best sensory feedback they need any to navigate the world,...

Latest Boeing Business Jets 777X VIP Cabin Concept Debuts at MEBAA in Dubai

Pulling out all stops, Boeing Business Jets debuted the “Shaheen” BBJ 777X at the 2018 Middle East Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) show in Dubai, United...

Moog to Collaborate on Bell Air Taxi

Forth Worth, Texas-based Bell Helicopter, a subsidiary of Textron Inc., will collaborate with Elma, New York-based Moog, for the development of the Flight Control Actuation System (FCAS) to support...

Japan Signs on for Second Boeing KC-46 Military Tanker and Transport Aircraft

Japan officials continue to boost the country’s defenses against threats, exercising the option to add a second Boeing KC-46 Pegasus military aerial refueling...