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Videos: Motion Control
Duke University researchers have found a way to speed up robotic motion planning by three orders of magnitude while using one-twentieth the power. Their solution is a custom...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
Inspired by the comic book character Wolverine's ability to self-heal, a team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside have developed a...
News: Electronics & Computers
After years of promoting vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications, the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration appears poised to mandate the safety technology. Many in the...
Videos: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Scientists from the Australian Antarctic Division sent a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) down to take a look under the ice in east Antarctica, capturing a small forest of...
News: Defense
Fuel efficiency—and the economic and ecological benefits associated with it—continues to be the white rabbit of the global aviation industry. While engine builders look...
Videos: Manufacturing & Prototyping
After observing birds in flight, EPFL researchers had the idea of building an energy-efficient winged drone capable of changing its wingspan, flying at high speed, making sharp...
News: Electronics & Computers
Steve Martin, an Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering at Iowa State University and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has researched battery materials...
Videos: Imaging
Carbon dioxide plays a significant role in trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere. The gas is released from human activities like burning fossil fuels, and the concentration of...
Videos: Aerospace
Harvard University engineers have made the world's smallest radio receiver, built out of an assembly of atomic-scale defects in pink diamonds. The tiny radio, whose...
Videos: Aerospace
Astronauts on the International Space Station take pictures of Earth out their windows nearly every day. Researchers from the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit at NASA's Johnson Space Center...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new strategy for fabricating more efficient plastic solar cells. The work has implications for developing...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
While abundant in nature, cellulose is difficult and expensive to find in pure or high-quality form. A Swedish research team has developed an efficient, accurate, and...
INSIDER: Defense
A laser-guided navigation sensor that could help future rovers make safe, precise landings on Mars or destinations beyond was developed at NASA’s Langley...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 3D-printed a ready-to-fly drone with embedded electronics using aerospace-grade material. The electronics were...
News: Power
Lucid Motors, the latest electric-vehicle startup to tilt at Tesla, unveiled the production version of its first model, the Air luxury sedan that boasts a twin-motor driveline and high-density...
INSIDER: Medical
People confined to a wheelchair are still confronted with insurmountable obstacles in everyday life – even in today’s more wheelchair-accessible society. While there are already...
INSIDER: Medical
Chronic wounds affect up to 6 million patients per year in the United States. Because of their high prevalence, chronic wounds are a significant economic burden to the U.S. healthcare system....
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorized means, which can be excessively bulky and rigid. A group of researchers has devised a way for a soft robot to feel its surroundings...
INSIDER: Medical
Researchers have developed an optical fiber probe that distinguishes breast cancer tissue from normal tissue, potentially allowing surgeons to be much more precise when removing...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers have developed a technology that uses computed tomography (CT) data to generate in real time a 3D image of the anatomical structures of the part of the body undergoing...
Videos: Imaging
Nikon chose Stanford University physicist William Gilpin's footage of an eight-week-old starfish larva catching food as the winner for its 2016 Small World in Motion...
Videos: Motion Control
UC Berkeley roboticists introduce SALTO - their tiny 3.5-ounce robot can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic...
Videos: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers from Japan's Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo have developed a soft-bodied crawling robot inspired by the tobacco hornworm caterpillar. This robot uses...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
A robotic capture module system prototype was built to help NASA engineers understand the operations required to collect a multi-ton boulder from an asteroid’s surface. The hardware...
INSIDER: Motion Control
Inspecting the condition of dikes and other sea defense structures is typically a task for robots, working in a team and in a highly autonomous way. But if they move around across the dikes,...
Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Is nine hours a day too much "screen time?"
This week's Question: A recent study from Common Sense Media found that parents spend more than nine hours (9:22) a day with screen media, with the vast majority of that time being spent with personal screen media (7:43) and only a little more than 90 minutes devoted to work screen media. Most parents...
News: Unmanned Systems
Vital Transformation
Almost lost in discussions about autonomous-driving technology are the “other” road users and how they fit into the driverless, robotic-vehicle future.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Boosting the fuel efficiency of motor vehicles by “harvesting” the energy generated by their shock absorbers and feeding it back into batteries or electrical systems such as air...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Energetiq Technology (Woburn, MA) has introduced its 5th generation, ultra-bright, Laser-Driven Light Source (LDLS™), the EQ-77. The EQ-77 offers higher radiance and irradiance from a truly broadband white light...
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Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Medical
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Podcasts: Medical
Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices
Podcasts: Design
Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless Medical Devices
Podcasts: AR/AI
Personalized Medicine and Drug Delivery
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Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.