News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Proto Labs Inc. (Maple Plain, MN) has expanded its rapid injection molding offerings with the launch of its new overmolding process. The company claims this new capability can produce 25 to 10,000+ custom overmolded...
INSIDER: Imaging
Imagine cell phones with 3D floating displays, or credit cards with three-dimensional security markings.
By using just one layer of nanoscale metallic film, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have reconstructed 3D full-color holographic images. The technique supports...
Videos: Medical
Harvard University researchers have developed the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Their heart-on-a-chip was built by a fully automated, digital...
News: Electronics & Computers
With its newest work space designated a center of excellence for cameras, ZF TRW underscores the critical role that vision-systems technology plays in automated driving.
Videos: Automotive
Rice University scientists have found that firing a tiny, nearly perfect cube of silver onto a hard target turns its single-crystal microstructure into a...
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
This week's Question: World-famous physicist Stephen Hawking recently warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.” Hawking noted the risks of creating superintelligence with a will of its...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
The SIMbot robot features an elegant motor with just one moving part: the ball. The only other active moving part of the robot is the body itself. A spherical induction motor...
INSIDER: Motion Control
In order to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable and convenient as internal-combustion cars, their motors must be smaller, lighter, more powerful, and more cost-effective. A research team is...
Product Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The push toward miniaturization in the electronics industry has left designers little or no room for test points, and the expansion of high frequency (HF) technologies has resulted in a growing need for test equipment that has the capability to verify these types of generally very small circuits....
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a computational model that makes sense of the ambient vibrations that travel up a structure as trucks and other forces rumble by. By picking out specific features in the noise that give indications of a building’s...
Who's Who: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Edward Chow leads the development of AUDREY, the Assistant for Understanding Data through Reasoning, Extraction, and sYnthesis. The artificial-intelligence system...
Videos: Transportation
Researchers from MIT Lincoln Laboratory achieved real-time, nighttime, centimeter-level vehicle localization while driving a test vehicle at highway speeds - over roads whose...
Articles: Aerospace
Throughout the 2016 documentary film Live Another Day about the fall and rise of the Detroit-3 automakers, former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz shows the insight and enthusiasm that made him one of the...
Videos: Electronics & Computers
Almost all solid materials expand when heated - only in rare instances do certain materials buck this trend and shrink with heat. An interdisciplinary research team led by MIT...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have demonstrated the 3D printing of shape-shifting structures that can fold or unfold to reshape themselves when exposed to heat...
News: Aerospace
Strong vibrations from a bus engine can be felt uncomfortably through the seats. Similarly, vibrations from the propellers or rotors in propeller aircraft and helicopters can make the flight bumpy and loud....
News: Aerospace
The newest Airbus and Boeing passenger jets flying today are made primarily from advanced composite materials such as carbon fiber reinforced plastic – extremely light, durable...
INSIDER: Materials
Scientists developed a method of allowing materials, commonly used in aircraft, to self-heal cracks at temperatures well below freezing. A healing efficiency of more than 100% at temperatures of -60...
INSIDER: Defense
Researchers developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi, rather than the Global Positioning...
INSIDER: Aerospace
NASA’s Spanwise Adaptive Wing (SAW) concept permits the outboard portions of the wings to move to the optimal position during operation. This could increase efficiency by...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
Water striders' ability to walk and jump on water surfaces has long inspired robot designers who want to mimic the insects' talent. Now, scientists from the State Key...
News: Defense
When it comes to designing new civilian and military engines that will meet all the future dreams and demands of the aerospace industry and those who regulate it, there is a...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
France's Dassault Aviation and India's Reliance Group announced in late September 2016 the creation of a joint venture (JV) in India called Dassault Reliance Aerospace.
Videos: Aerospace
Along with the visible light constantly emitted by the sun, there is a whole spectrum of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation that streams toward Earth. A new CubeSat - a...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Northeastern University scientist Brian Helmuth and other researchers have developed "robomussels" that monitor climate change. The tiny devices have miniature built-in sensor that track temperatures inside the mussel beds.
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Images of exciting and futuristic-looking aircraft might capture the imagination of the next generation of would-be aerospace engineers, but the most spectacular...
News: Electronics & Computers
Scientists from Imperial College London have demonstrated that they can wirelessly transfer power to a drone. The technology uses inductive coupling, a concept initially...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
If 3D virtual reality and additive manufacturing (AM) are indicative of one direction that disruptive developments are taking the aerospace engineering sector, then...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
A neural interface connected to a robotic arm allows an individual to experience the sensation of touch directly in the brain. By enabling two-way communication between...