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Citroën to Unveil CXperience Concept at 2016 Paris Show

Having shrugged off the inhibiting effects of conventional design that took it into the category of the mundane for many years, PSA Citroën’s latest demonstration of its original...

Auxiliary Hydraulics Highlight Productivity Focus for Deere Reduced-Tail-Swing Excavators

John Deere recently updated the 135G and 245G LC reduced-tail-swing excavators, which are designed to maneuver in tight spots for projects such as...

Electric Power to Revolutionize Heavy-Duty Distribution Trucks

Daimler Trucks will display its Mercedes-Benz Urban eTruck concept vehicle at the IAA Commercial Vehicles show in Hanover, Germany, this September. The company claims the Urban...

Simple Blood Test Could Be Used to Detect Breast Cancer

Researchers at the University of Western Australia are working on a quick, simple, and less invasive blood-based test that can detect breast cancer progression or relapse much earlier than...

Liftoff of OSIRIS-REx: First U.S. Sample Return Mission to an Asteroid

On September 8, NASA launched the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force...

Robot Swarm Learns to Work Together Without Colliding

A Georgia Tech research team has created new algorithms that allow any number of robots to move within inches of each other, without colliding, to complete their task - swapping locations on...

Go Through Virtual Spacewalk Training with NASA

This 360-degree immersive virtual reality (VR) viewing experience features exclusive astronaut training footage from NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston, TX. Produced by Harmonic,...

Lab-on-a-Stick Provides Fast Detection of Antibiotic Resistance

A portable power-free test for the rapid detection of bacterial resistance to antibiotics has been developed. The Lab-on-a-Stick is an inexpensive microfluidic strip –...

Shortwave Infrared Instrument Could Improve Ear Infection Diagnosis

A new device could greatly improve doctors’ ability to accurately diagnose ear infections. The new device, whose design is still being refined by the team, is expected...

Edible Batteries Power Ingestible Medical Devices

Non-toxic, edible batteries could one day power ingestible devices for diagnosing and treating disease. The batteries are made with melanin pigments naturally found in the skin, hair, and...

Vulcan: Intelligent Robo-Wheelchair Navigates Autonomously

University of Michigan computer science and engineering professor Ben Kuipers created Vulcan a few years ago, and now graduate student Colin Johnson and robotics researcher Jong Jin...

Tech Reduces Runoff Pollution By Making Spray Droplets Less Bouncy

When farmers spray their fields with pesticides or other treatments, only 2 percent of the spray sticks to the plants while a significant portion becomes part of the runoff that...

Miniature Pressure Sensor

Model ASUH miniature hybrid high-integrity pressure transducer from KA Sensors (Danbury, CT) is designed for use in rugged environments from -65 to +300ºF (-54 to +149ºC) and vibration levels of more than 20 g. Its...

Foam-Fill Simulation of Polyurethane Systems

BASF (Florham Park, NJ) offers an additional service for polyurethane (PU) systems in automotive interiors. The Ultrasim simulation tool has been expanded so that the behavior of PU systems during...

Signal Analyzer Software Upgrade

To speed up noise and vibration data analysis for vehicle manufacturers and industrial machinery, Brüel & Kjær (Norcross, GA) offers RT Pro 7.3 enhanced software for its Photon signal analyzer. The RT...

Digital Factory Solution for Smart Manufacturing

With FASTSUITE Edition 2, CENIT (Auburn Hills, MI) provides an efficient Digital Factory solution for smart manufacturing. The latest generation of CENITs’ universal software platform, which...

Cooling, Plastic Clothing Material Could Reduce Need for Air Conditioning

Stanford University engineers have created a low-cost plastic material that could become the basis for clothing that cools the wearer, reducing the need for...

Optical Overlayer Innovation Doubles Efficiency of Residential Solar Panels

Insolight, a startup company based in EPFL's Innovation Park, has developed solar panels that could deliver up to twice as much energy as traditional panels. The...

Inside Porsche's New V8 and V6 Powertrains

Porsche broke a “golden rule” of automotive engineering when it began development of the second generation Panamera: Never develop a new car, a new powertrain and a new factory simultaneously....

Digital Reference Images for Die Castings

As a new option, YXLON (Hamburg, Germany) provides ASTM E2973 digital reference images for aluminum and magnesium die castings in its imaging software Image2500 and Image3500 of X-ray inspection...

Octobot: First Autonomous, Untethered, Entirely Soft Robot

A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot....

Energy Harvesting's Emerging Role in a 'Smarter' World

When most individuals hear “energy harvesting,” they often think of alternative energy sources like wind and solar power. There is a distinct difference, however, between alternative...

Multiphysics Simulation

OMSOL, Burlington, MA, announced the latest release of COMSOL Multiphysics® version 5.2, Application Builder, and COMSOL Server™ simulation software that expands electrical, mechanical, fluid, and chemical design and...

Embedded System GUIs

Abaco Systems, Huntsville, AL, announced AXIS DataView that enables users to develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for embedded applications. The software is designed for displaying data and adding controls to signal and...

Design-to-3D Print

Stratasys, Eden Prairie, MN, offers GrabCAD Print, an open architecture design-to-3D print workflow application residing on the GrabCAD SaaS platform. The software eliminates requirements to translate and repair CAD files...

Analysis and Simulation

MSC Software Corp., Newport Beach, CA, released MSC Nastran 2016 and Patran 2016 simulation and analysis software. Nastran 2016 delivers new multidisciplinary analysis solutions, and Patran improves support for nonlinear...

Manifold Design

HydraForce, Lincolnshire, IL, released Version 5 of the i-Design integrated manifold design tool that allows users to create custom integrated manifold circuits, specify valve assembly layout, and generate a bill of material for...