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Videos: Motion Control
University of Pennsylvania startup company Ghost Robotics has launched its first direct-drive legged robot - Ghost Minitaur. The quadruped robot was built for highly-precise force...
INSIDER: Materials
Large elements for NASA's Space Launch System are in production, and will be joined together to create the rocket's 212-foot-tall core stage, the backbone of the SLS rocket. The core...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Engineers have devised a simple, reproducible, and less expensive approach to manufacturing computer chips using directed self-assembly, which can increase the density of circuit...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Engineers are using light to print three-dimensional structures that “remember” their original shapes. The process of 3D printing shape-memory materials can also be thought...
News: Automotive
Describing new features and technologies for off-highway vehicles as “automotive-style” sometimes comes off as marketing hype—words meant to tap into views that passenger vehicles are more...
News: RF & Microwave Electronics
Vehicle owners increasingly expect to move seamlessly between homes, offices, and vehicles. That trend is forcing the entire automotive supply chain to focus on techniques for...
News: Electronics & Computers
Automotive vehicle valuation and shopping website Kelly Blue Book released results of a national survey regarding autonomous-vehicle technology and...
Videos: Medical
A new microchip from the lab of University of Michigan biomedical engineer Euisik Yoon captures as many as 10,000 individual cancer cells in tiny chambers. In these chambers, regular...
News: Defense
PPG opened a new coatings research center in Marly, France, in September 2016, the company’s second investment for an Aerocron e-coat primer installation. Like its first...
Question of the Week
Will ground-based delivery robots catch on?
This week's Question: This fall, Starship Technologies, an Estonia-based startup created by two Skype co-founders, will begin testing its autonomous delivery robot in Washington, D.C. Washington is the first U.S. municipality to approve ground-based robots to traverse city sidewalks. Starship aims to...
Who's Who: Materials
Dr. Bin Chen has led the development of nanomaterials and ultra-sensitive detection techniques. Her materials development work directly supports radiation-shielding...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
An array of GPS instruments near the San Andreas Fault System in Southern California detects constant motion of Earth’s crust — sometimes large, sudden motion during an...
Technology Report: Design
The news that Volvo Cars, renowned for its safety focus, and ride-sharing company Uber, are working together to develop next generation autonomous driving (AD) cars eventually reaching...
Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
A waste heat recovery (WHR) system for a long-haul truck application was examined via simulation, test bench, and public road vehicle testing as part of a joint project between CNH...
News: Test & Measurement
dSPACE (Wixom, MI) and BTC Embedded Systems (Oldenburg, Germany) offer a solution that improves test depth for the real-time validation of safety-critical applications with extension of classical test methods, easier...
News: Automotive
Tighter emissions requirements and underhood packing due to higher power demands from engines necessitate more optimized cooling packages. Fan and fan-shroud design is crucial for...
Articles: Transportation
Many off-highway applications demand a relatively high low-end torque compared to on-highway applications. Because of this, applying downsizing strategies for non-road applications...
News: Design
Scania’s new truck generation can be equipped with rollover side-curtain airbags integrated into the headliner molding above the doors. The manufacturer claims the...
News: Automotive
Signaling a trend toward closer and more efficient technical collaboration between the U.S. government and private industry, officials from SAE International and TARDEC, the U.S. Army...
Videos: Software
University of Michigan engineers are visualizing how a typical morning with a driverless car might go, and what steps need to be taken for that future to be realized. Mcity is the...
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Advances in vehicle electronics and satellite navigation technologies have resulted in automatic guidance systems in agriculture that enable increased productivity and convenience. Systems such as John...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Trucks with a 6×2 axle configuration are lighter in weight compared to their 6×4 counterparts and can achieve greater fuel efficiency (FE) due to reductions in frictional losses...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The all-new Armor Max Pro Grade MSD tire from The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Akron, OH) builds on the toughness of the Goodyear G177, while providing enhanced traction, miles to removal and retread ability. Suited...
Videos: Software
To actually integrate autonomous vehicles into everyday life, researchers need to teach the cars how to make the safe driving decisions that come intuitively to human drivers. Stanford...
INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Rice University materials scientists are making nanodiamonds and other forms of carbon by smashing nanotubes against a target at high speeds. The process will enrich the knowledge of...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Detecting turbulence remains the Achilles' heel of modern-day aviation. The reports submitted by pilots, subjective and often very inaccurate, are the least expensive and the most...
INSIDER: Aerospace
As NASA aeronautics engineers prepare to develop a series of greener, quieter, faster X-planes, they are already testing concepts that could be candidates. One of those is a Boeing blended wing...
News: Green Design & Manufacturing
Methods to improve fuel economy, even if incrementally, is a pervasive topic at the booths of global truck and bus OEMs and their suppliers at the IAA Commercial Vehicles tradeshow in Hanover,...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
Brain Implant Enables Safer Drug Delivery
Features: Medical
Built to Adapt: Rethinking Contract Manufacturing for a New Era
Features: Materials
OEM Toll Processing Advances High-Value Products
From the Editor: Medical
From The Editor: Charting the Technologies That Will Shape Medtech in 2026
INSIDER: Medical
Oxygen Scavenger Doubles Biosensor Performance
Features: AR/AI
Engineering for the Future: The Trends Transforming Medtech in 2026
Ask the Expert
Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
In collaboration with the Fort Wayne Metals Engineering team, Eric Dietsch focuses on supporting customers with material recommendations, product development, and education. Eric is available to help you and your company with any Nitinol-related questions or needs that you may have.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
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
Podcasts: Green Design & Manufacturing
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.