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Golf Pros Benefit from Servo Speed and Precision

The next generation of golf clubs for PGA touring professionals will be a better match to a pro-level swing, thanks to Yaskawa servo systems on a new generation of club testing robots from...

CeraTek: Validatable, Calibratable Medical Pouch and Tray Sealers

CeraTek machines provide the highest level of risk mitigation in the medical device packaging industry. CeraTek medical pouch and tray sealers are tailored to the production...

How To: Proper Surface Preparation for Metal Bonding

Achieve optimal bond strength with proper surface preparation of your metal. We'll demonstrate how in this captivating video. Visit Master Bond for more information.

Salto the Tiny 'Parkour Robot' Now Bounces Off Walls in Every Direction

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have updated their monopedal jumping (or 'parkour') robot, Salto. Weighing mere ounces, it could crouch low, jump...

Pinnacle Engines Partners with India's Greaves Cotton on New Low-Emissions Technology

Indian engine and equipment-maker Greaves Cotton Ltd. and U.S.-based Pinnacle Engines Inc. recently announced a technology partnership for the launch of...

CAE Mastery Helped Achates Power Create Its New Engine

The Achates Power opposed-piston, two-stroke compression-ignition engine is making its way to market, boasting significantly improved fuel efficiency versus today’s standard...

Handheld Laser Probe Detects Cancer in Real Time

An optical probe that detects cancerous brain cells in real time is impressive enough. Scientists in Montreal say they’ve developed one that is “infallible.”

Pen-Sized Probe Lets Surgeons Find Cancer Cells in Real Time

Cancer patients will enjoy longer life expectancy and reduced risk of recurrence thanks to an 'infallible' optical probe developed by engineer Frédéric Leblond from Polytechnique...

Tiny Triangular 'Mori' is a Modular and Origami Robot in One

Researchers from EPFL's Reconfigurable Robotics Lab have created a 'modular origami robot' called Mori. They say Mori is the first example of a robot that combines the concepts behind...

New at Sensors Expo: IoT Platform Collects Data via Bluetooth

Fujitsu Components America released its enhanced BlueBrain Sensor-Based IoT System Platform at the 2017 Sensors Expo & Conference, hosted in San Jose, CA. The BlueBrain platform...

Meet TEO: A Robot that Irons Your Clothes

With the intention of finding a practical solution and feasible implementation to a dull domestic task - like ironing - researchers from Charles III University of Madrid, Spain have developed an...

3D Printed Tensegrity Object Can Change Shape

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a way to use 3D printers to create objects capable of shape change. The objects use tensegrity, a structural system...

Self-Learning Robot Hands Adapt to Grasp Objects

A new grasp system with robotic hands works without previously knowing the characteristics of objects. The system, which learns by trial and error, was developed by researchers at Bielefeld...

Crawling Robot is Powered by Moisture

Using an off-the-shelf camera flash, researchers at Jilin University, China, turned an ordinary sheet of graphene oxide into a material that bends when exposed to moisture. They then used this material...

MIT Drones Can Switch Between Flying and Driving in Urban Settings

Robots that are good at one mode of transportation generally tend to be bad at another. Airborne drones are fast and agile, but often have too limited of a battery life to...

FEV to Open "Mission-Critical" Test Facility in 2018

Engineering services company FEV will expand its vehicle-emissions capability next year with the opening of a new vehicle test center, its third facility in Auburn Hills, MI.

Vehicle Connectivity Demands Teamwork

Automotive suppliers and companies from other fields are jockeying to team up with the right group of partners to provide services for connected vehicles and smart cities. The collaborations cross...

In Pursuit of Networked Drone Operations

NASA researchers have been officially cleared to begin formal feasibility studies on advanced Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) concepts under NASA’s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) project....

Jaguar Land Rover Uses Mixed-Reality App to Recruit Engineers

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has virtually stepped up its technical-recruitment game. Literally.

Ultra-Thin Camera Design Uses Array of Light Instead of a Lens

Engineers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a new camera design that replaces traditional lenses with an ultra-thin optical phased array (OPA). The OPA does...

New Chemical Method Could Revolutionize Graphene

Scientists have discovered a new chemical method that enables graphene to be incorporated into a wide range of applications while maintaining its ultrafast electronics. Graphene, a...

Photoacoustic Imaging Aims to Ensure Surgeons Completely Remove Cancer

Researchers report that they have developed a technology to scan a tumor sample and produce images detailed and accurate enough to be used to check whether a tumor has...

Sensors and Smartphones — Simpler, More Affordable Detection of Diseases

When it comes to testing for cancer, traditional sensors can help. The challenges are that they often are bulky, expensive, nonintuitive, and complicated. Now, one...

Energy Harvester Uses Only Body Heat to Power Wearables

Engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as...

Paper-Thin Device Generates Power, Morphs Into Foldable Microphone

Michigan State University researchers introduce a super-thin flexible device that generates energy from human motion and can also act as a loudspeaker and microphone. The audio...

Will solar paint catch on?

In today's lead INSIDER story, researcher Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh said of his "solar paint": "It will be widespread. It is a technology that can shift the energy economy to a hydrogen economy. This disruptive concept...

Sound-Off: How Does Connectivity Improve Vehicle Design?

Vehicle connectivity enables suppliers and manufacturers to gather new kinds of customer-specific information. See how automotive OEMs — and construction equipment makers like...

Solar Paint Absorbs Water Vapor to Generate 'Endless Energy'

Researchers from Australia's RMIT University have created a solar paint that can absorb water vapor and split it to generate hydrogen, which is the cleanest source of energy. The...