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Power-over-Skin: Allowing Electricity to Travel Through the Body

Body-monitoring devices require batteries that are bulky and require regular maintenance. To free wearable tech from these burdens, researchers at Carnegie Mellon developed...

Extending Solar Panels’ Lifespan

An important problem when it comes to solar energy is that when solar panels are kept out in the sun they operate at very high temperatures, about 60° C to 80° C. This reduces their lifespan. Watch this...

How Much Do You Know About Bonded Dissimilar Metals?

Engineers are constantly looking for metals to solve their design dilemmas. Bonded dissimilar metals offer vastly improved performance while minimizing the design trade-offs of single metals. How much do you know about bonded dissimilar metals? Find out with this quiz.

Minuscule Robots Provides Targeted Drug Delivery

In the future, delivering therapeutic drugs exactly where they are needed within the body could be the task of miniature robots.

Nano Drug-Delivery System Improves Drug Development

A team of researchers has created an innovative drug-delivery system with potential to improve drug development. The drug-delivery system is a coordination network composed of only metal...

Horiba Addresses Testing in a Diverse Powertrain Technology Landscape

Accurate and repeatable emissions measurement is vital in all mobility sectors and in all regions of the world as regulations continue to take effect and become more...

Boston Scientific to Acquire SoniVie Ltd.

Boston Scientific Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SoniVie Ltd., a privately held medical device company that has developed the TIVUS™ Intravascular Ultrasound System....

Smart Stacking Tool Improves Rotor Assembly Process for F-35 Engines

The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex has implemented a modernized method to assemble rotor components in the F135 jet engine.

3D-Printed Temporary Use Parts Reduce Downtime for Army Vehicles

Army additive manufacturing experts are using an advanced materials process to replace damaged ground vehicle parts more quickly, reducing vehicle down-time in formations.

Microsoft, PsiQuantum Designing Quantum Computer Prototypes for DARPA US2QC Program

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Microsoft and PsiQuantum to move to the final design stage of its Underexplored Systems...

Guest Editorial: The Power of One When Choosing Stent and Catheter Partners

As device designs become increasingly sophisticated, medtech companies are understandably seeking contract design and manufacturing partners that can accompany them on...

Startup Develops Manufacturing Breakthrough for Traveling-Wave Tubes

Traveling-wave tubes (TWTs) are a type of vacuum tube critical for many high-performance applications, including deep space missions, satellites, and electronic warfare....

Undeterred, WCX Strides Toward Future

The national and global economy may face turbulent times for the near future, but the show goes on in automotive manufacturing. In addition to being a great place for engineers to upgrade their...

A Compact, Versatile Robot Capable of Maneuvering Tight Spaces with a Heavy Payload

Researchers at EPFL and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a compact and versatile robot that can maneuver through tight spaces and transport payloads much heavier than itself.

Guest Blog: Business Goals Drive Shifts in Materials

The medical device industry constantly evaluates product and packaging materials and designs to meet business objectives, sustainability targets, and changing consumer preferences. Tactics...

2025 Nissan Murano: Variable Compression to the Mpg Rescue

When it arrived in 2002, the Murano was the first crossover that Nissan North America, Inc. offered in the U.S. and Canada. The fourth-generation version went on sale last fall,...

Redefining Rehabilitation with Wearable Robotics

A team of engineers is on a mission to redefine mobility by providing innovative wearable solutions to physical therapists, orthotic and prosthetic professionals, and individuals experiencing walking impairment and disability.

Robotic Locomotion in Unstructured Terrain

Watch this video to learn about a bio-inspired musculoskeletal leg architecture driven by antagonistic pairs of electrohydraulic artificial muscles. The leg, mounted on a boom arm, can adaptively hop...

TAMP of Approval: Extending LGP

Watch this video to learn more about an optimization-based solution to task and motion planning (TAMP) on mobile manipulators. See how the work extends LGP with a sampling-based reachability graph to enable...

The Poveda Lab Explains Control Theory

Watch this video to see researchers in the lab of Jorge Poveda, UC San Diego Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, explain control theory as well as its real-world applications. In addition, the...

Using MRIs to Detect Metal-Ion Dissolution in Lithium Battery Cathodes

Researchers have been working on a method to detect and investigate the dissolution of the metal ion in a cathode. Using nuclear MRI, they were able to directly observe the dissolution in real time. Read on to learn more.

A Springtail-Like Jumping Robot

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and...

Morphing Robot Turns Challenging Terrain to Its Advantage

From mountain goats that run up near-vertical rock faces to armadillos that roll into a protective ball, animals have evolved to adapt effortlessly to changes in their environment....

Robot Works Inside E-Waste Recycling Facility

A researcher from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science is using robotics to improve e-waste recycling.

MIT Engineers Help Multirobot Systems Stay In the Safety Zone

Drone shows are an increasingly popular form of large-scale light display. These shows incorporate hundreds to thousands of airborne bots, each programmed to fly in paths that...

How Aerospace Heat Treatment Strategies are Evolving with Additive Manufacturing

For Tech Briefs' Expert Insight series, Mark Hemsath, President, Nitrex Turnkey Systems, spoke with Aerospace & Defense Technology (A&DT) about how the...

75 Years of Innovation

In celebration of The Lee Company’s 75th Anniversary, this video represents a heartfelt thank you to all of our incredible employees who have helped the company reach this extraordinary milestone. The unwavering...