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Gecko-Inspired Robotic Gripper for Grabbing Space Debris

About 500,000 pieces of human-made debris are orbiting our planet - posing a threat to satellites, space vehicles, and the astronauts aboard those vehicles. Engineers from Stanford...

Harmonic Air Motor Offers Very High Efficiency

Currently available air motors have many advantages over electric motors. They are more compact, lighter-weight, instantly reversible without sparking, create no heat buildup, are undamaged by...

Robotic Gripper Cleans Up Space Debris

Currently there are about 500,000 pieces of human-made debris in space, orbiting our planet at speeds up to 17,500 miles per hour. This debris poses a threat to satellites, space vehicles, and...

Wireless Magnetic Field Powers Folding Robots

A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University has created...

High Temperature, Flexible Epoxy

The EC-1030FL has a 10-15 min work time.

'RFly' Drones Find Missing Objects with Battery-Free RFIDs

Large warehouses across the country lose billions of dollars every year from lost inventory. To enable more efficient inventory control, companies have looked into using cheap,...

Drug-Delivering Micromotors Treat Their First Bacterial Infection

Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated - for the first time - using micromotors to treat a bacterial infection in the stomach. These tiny...

Automated Guided Vehicle Platform

Agile1500 Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) platform from Comau (Turin, Italy) features the flexibility to be deployed across a wide range of manufacturing and non-manufacturing scenarios. According to Comau, it...

Diesel Engine for Rotary and Fixed-Wing Aircraft, FAA Certification Expected in 2017

Engineered Propulsion Systems (EPS) expects to earn FAA type certification and production certification for its new Graflite V8 engine by the end of 2017,...

CubeSat Prototype to Use Water as Propellant

Conventional satellites are about the size of a school bus, weigh thousands of pounds, and sometimes cost hundreds of millions of dollars. They also require specialized electronics that can...

'ShAPE' Process Provides Super-Light & Strong Automotive Parts

Magnesium is the lightest of all structural metals and has a lot of potential in the quest to make lighter cars that go farther on a tank of fuel or battery charge. The metal is 75...

Perspiration Power: Biofuel Cell Reacts to Sweat

Engineers from the University of California – San Diego have developed stretchable fuel cells that extract energy from an often-unpleasant source: sweat. The flexible UCSD-developed devices are...

Have you faced internal hurdles when trying to introduce additive manufacturing?

This week's "Sound-Off" article featured advice on how to bring a 3D-printing approach to the organization. What do you think? Have you faced internal hurdles when...

'Interactive Robogami' Tool Lets Anyone Make 3D-Printed, Foldable Robots

MIT researchers are aiming to open up the design and fabrication of robots to all - enabling people of all skill levels to make robots without needing expert knowledge....

Medical Diagnostic Device Made from Paper is Powered Only by User's Touch

A new paper-based diagnostic device developed at Purdue University detects biomarkers and identifies diseases by performing electrochemical analyses - powered only by the...

Rapid 3D Printing in Water Opens Doors for Personalized Medical Devices

A new type of photoinitiator for 3D printing in water could allow for the creation of biofriendly 3D printed structures. 3D printing in water opens exciting...

A Medical First: Micromotors Help Treat Bacterial Infection

Nanoengineers have demonstrated for the first time the use of micromotors to treat a bacterial infection in the stomach. These tiny vehicles, each about half the width of a human...

Stronger Artificial Bones Created with 3D Printing

A new artificial bone design can be customized and made with a 3D printer for stronger, safer, and more effective bone replacements.

‘Electronic Skin’ Is More than Skin Deep

An “electronic skin” microsystem tracks heart rate, respiration, muscle movement and other health data, and wirelessly transmits it to a smart phone. The electronic skin offers several...

That Luxurious Feeling of Silk for Your Wearable Sensors

Scientists are on the cusp of using silk, one of the world’s most coveted fabrics, to develop a more sensitive and flexible generation of wearable body sensors that monitor a slew...

Bosch Defends the Diesel's Future as RDE Testing Arrives

"Politicians should not restrict our engineers' capability by favoring or disadvantaging a certain technology," asserted Dr. Rolf Bulander, chairman of Robert Bosch Mobility...

New Vision @ Gentex

On first glance, it appears to be a passive rectangle of reflective glass. But the full-display mirror, or FDM as its maker Gentex Corp. calls it, comes alive when you start the vehicle. In the Cadillac CT6, XT5 and...

'dr0wned' - Researchers Demonstrate How to Hack a 3D-Printed Drone

Last October, researchers from the University of South Alabama, Ben-Gurion University, and Singapore University of Technology and Design demonstrated how to sabotage the quality...

First Terahertz Multiplexer Transmission is 100 Times Faster than Cellular

A research team led by Brown University has demonstrated, for the first time, data transmission through a terahertz multiplexer. Multiplexing is the ability to send...

Turning Homes into Power Stations

A new solar project, called SUNRISE, will develop printed photovoltaic cells and new manufacturing processes that can be used to construct solar energy products in India. These will then be integrated into...