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AI-Powered Assistants Will Be Integrated into Engineering Applications

AI assistants in engineering software will both simplify and streamline engineers' ability to control their tools. By leveraging natural language models, engineers will be able to interact with applications directly through voice and text commands. Read on to learn more.

Toyota Says Woven City Innovation Incubator Is Ready for Residents

At the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Toyota announced that it has completed phase one construction of what it calls Toyota Woven City, a full-scale area...

Why Grid Stability Is Imperative to Renewables, Battery Energy Storage

The power grid must remain stable as renewable energy and battery energy storage become more common. This is a major challenge with so many new devices and operations....

Turning Coal Waste into a Resource for Clean EVs

Watch this video to learn about two ORNL-tested methods for transforming coal into the scarce mineral graphite, which is used in batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage.

Don’t Forget to Charge Your Phone with Your…Sweater?!?

A sweater that powers electronics could soon become reality, thanks to a research group led by Chalmers University of Technology. Watch this video to see the team’s ordinary silk...

NASA’s Electric Thrusters Keep Commercial Satellites on the Clock

NASA’s advancements in materials research for ion thrusters enabled Orbion Space Technology to bring high-efficiency ion thrusters to the commercial satellite industry.

Marelli Says New BMS Offers Deeper Insight into State of EV Battery Cells

Battery cell management is a never-ending quest for deeper and faster insight into a cell’s energy production and health. Supplier Marelli says its new battery...

CES 2025: Deere Advances Off-Highway Autonomy

With the pungent smell of garlic in the air and the threat of tremors from three major fault lines, a select group of journalists invited to John Deere’s Gilroy, California, test center in...

How Much Do You Know About Industrial Robotics?

Industrial robots are playing a continually increasing role in manufacturing worldwide. It’s therefore important that we in the tech industries have a good understanding of what they are, what they do, and what they can do. How much do you know about industrial robotics? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

Bosch Sees Two Paths Forward for On-Road Hydrogen Trucks

The incoming Republican White House administration is expected to significantly alter regulations that impact the country’s transportation sector. Emissions regulations may change,...

5Ws of a Raven-Inspired Drone

EPFL researchers have built RAVEN, a drone that can walk, hop, and jump into flight with the aid of birdlike legs.

Flipping NASA Tech and Sticking the Landing

Looking for a reliable method of adhesion for its product that lets a phone stick almost anywhere, Flipstik of St. Louis, Missouri, used published research into robotic grippers conducted by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to improve its gecko-inspired accessory. Read on to learn more.

Tweaking Analysis Tools to Give SAGE Advice

Under SBIR funding from Langley Research Center, Quartus Engineering of San Diego tested the tools it used to analyze optical assemblies for an atmosphere-observing satellite. With better modeling and analysis tools, Quartus and NASA hope to cut time and expense from future optical instrument design. Read on to learn more.

View from the Sky Helps Predict Crop Yields

Argentinian company SIMA offers a crop yield forecasting feature for its farming app, developed with help from NASA Harvest, an agricultural consortium led by University of Maryland Researchers using satellite data and expertise from Goddard Space Flight Center. Read on to learn more.

Innovation Comes Out of the Wool Work

For millennia, sheep’s wool has been key to major leaps in technology. From the invention of the spinning wheel to the dawn of computer-controlled looms, refining wool into textiles has led to revolutions in industry. Today, wool itself is leading the charge, with some assistance from NASA. Read on to learn more.

NASA ‘RAMPT’ Up 3D Printed Engine Size

Additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, has become an important tool for many industries, and NASA has been central to adapting it for one of the most demanding applications — rocket engines. NASA’s largest effort on this front has been the Rapid Analysis and Manufacturing Propulsion Technology (RAMPT) project, funded by the Game Changing Development program and led by Marshall. Read on to learn more about it.

Controlled Propulsion for Gentle Landings

The Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers continue to provide a wealth of information about the Red Planet. But if the sky crane landing systems that gently lowered them to the surface had run out of fuel a mile up, none of that would have happened. A successful descent managed by eight powerful engines depended on a small part created by Eaton Corp. Read on to learn more about it.

Cutting-Edge Computing Goes Spaceborne

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. sent an unmodified high-performance computer to the International Space Station in 2017, no computer expert thought it would last a week. Over a year-and-a-half later, Spaceborne Computer-1 returned home, having operated successfully for its entire mission. Read on to learn more.

Instant Innovation for Plastic Products

A Kennedy Space Center technologist figured out how to infuse plastics with aerogel to make them better insulators. It also made them more fire-resistant, water-repellant, sound-damping, lightweight, and resistant to cryogenic temperatures. Now Okhata of Cheyenne, Wyoming, markets these “aeropolymers” to various industries. Read on to learn more.

Space Tech Gives Treadmill Users a ‘Boost’

Creators of the original antigravity treadmill for astronauts in space have now developed a new treadmill that uses air pressure to counter gravity, making running possible for people with injuries and other conditions.

3D Printed Engines Propel Next Industrial Revolution

The new possibility of 3D-printed aluminum engine parts will mean significant savings for NASA in terms of time, money, and, most importantly, the weight of future spacecraft. Elementum 3D Inc., a partner on the project, is now bringing the benefits of that technology to its customers.

Dust-Powered 3D Printing

After 3D printing a habitat designed for Mars and working with NASA on print material made from synthetic Moon dust, AI SpaceFactory Inc. has commercialized two separate 3D printers. Read on to learn more.

Cosmic Experiments Make Cosmetic Nutrients

The Rotary Cell Culture System invented by researchers at Johnson Space Center lets cells grow faster and healthier than they would in a dish. Brand Labs USA of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, uses secretions from plant stem cells grown in the devices to produce nutrient-rich skin care products. Read on to learn more.

Hubble Battery Tech Holds Power on Earth

Nickel-hydrogen batteries store renewable energy for power plants, businesses, and homes, thanks to innovations from Fremont, California-based EnerVenue, informed by NASA papers out of Glenn Research Center about the technology’s performance on the Hubble Telescope, International Space Station, and more. Read on to learn more.

Scaling Up Hydrogen

The Cryostat CS900 is poised to enable widespread use of liquid hydrogen as an energy carrier, according to James Fesmire, who invented the technology for his company, Titusville, Florida-based GenH2, building on his career developing cryostats at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Read on to learn more.

From Cockpit Controls to Dashboard Data

NASA feedback enables better display systems for aircraft as well as interfaces on the infotainment and instrument cluster displays of many cars.

Space-Based Tech for Home Health Monitoring

Technologies from NASA, federal labs, and universities have found commercial applications in the medical industry. Read on, as this article highlights some of those spin-off innovations.

Hard(ware) to the Core

At the heart of every satellite is a computer designed to control it and communicate with operators on Earth. Effectively the spacecraft’s nerve center, the command and data handling system is essential to a satellite. But running that system requires a framework to build upon, something NASA provides the public openly. Read on to learn more about the core Flight System.

NASA and Education Make Quite the Pear

Few things capture a child’s imagination like space exploration. According to a 2018 study by Harris Insights and Analytics, “astronaut” is one of the most popular answers kids give to the enduring question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” For all those children who could go on to make those dreams a reality, a solid education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) starts early. Now NASA is lending expertise to bolster one company’s lesson plans. Read on to learn more.