INSIDER: Medical
A team from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill created artificial microvasculature. The microvessel technology will help to create new tissues and...
News: Energy
In a slight reboot of its hybrid marketing approach, Toyota used the 2016 New York auto show unveil the 2017 Prius Prime, the plug-in hybrid version of the...
Q&A: Green Design & Manufacturing
“SAE is the ‘engineers’ foundation,’” reflected Seiya Nakao. “When I was a young engineer, we learned a lot from SAE, and personally this is a good opportunity for me to return something to it.”...
Videos: Motion Control
NASA has been working with various vendors to make 3D-printed parts, such as turbopumps and injectors, and test them individually. To test them together, they connected the parts so that...
What's Online: Automotive
Moving quickly to expand the appeal of the all-new, fourth-generation MX-5 Miata roadster introduced last year, Mazda revealed prior to the 2016 New York auto show a folding...
Editorial: Power
Mid-April in Munich marks the 31st edition of the largest trade fair in the world, Bauma. With more than 3400 exhibitors and 530,000 visitors at the last iteration in 2013—not quite the...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
Brigham Young University mechanical engineers are working toward surgical technology that will allow for the manufacturing of instruments so small that the size of incisions...
INSIDER: Green Design & Manufacturing
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, lack of access to safe, clean water is the biggest risk to society over the coming decade. A new graphene-based filter built by Monash...
Videos: Defense
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have developed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can stay on station beneath the water, then...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
An air data probe intended to improve investigation of sonic booms is flying on the F-15B aircraft at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. NASA's goal for sonic boom research is to find...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Iowa State University engineers developed a new flexible, stretchable, and tunable metamaterial skin that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Scientists have conducted flights using a measurement configuration based on fiber optics to accurately verify the degree to which carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) parts deform during...
Question of the Week
This week's Question: According to a public service announcement last week from The FBI, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Department of Transportation, vehicles will be increasingly subject to cybersecurity risks as they become more automated and less controlled by drivers. In the...
Editorial: Transportation
I stopped counting the marketing presentations I’ve attended that included a slide with the alleged Henry Ford quote regarding the folly of soliciting customer opinion: “If I had asked people what they wanted,...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
A new class of miniature biological robots, or bio-bots, are powered by muscle cells that have been genetically engineered to respond to light - giving researchers control over the bots'...
News: Electronics & Computers
Harman International is demonstrating an advanced connected-car platform that previews a fundamental shift in the human-machine interface of automated and autonomous...
News: Automotive
The Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal has taken a number of passenger-vehicle diesels temporarily off the market. But "circumstances involving a single manufacturer do not define...
News: Photonics/Optics
Airbus put together what it describes as a transnational, transfunctional team to develop an efficient new method to repair fiber optic cables.
News: Electronics & Computers
Even as the importance of reducing both noise and pollutant emissions continues to grow in modern aircraft, so too does the recognition of the importance of the passenger experience.
News: Electronics & Computers
Vehicle OEMs have pledged to make automatic emergency braking (AEB) a standard feature by 2022, a move that is likely to alter electronic architectures and increase collaboration...
News: Test & Measurement
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Delaware have developed an algorithm that can quickly and accurately reconstruct hyperspectral images using less data. The...
News: Imaging
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new imaging technique, tested on samples of nanoscale gold...
News: Medical
Combining optical coherence tomography (OCT) with near-infrared autofluorescence (NIRAF) imaging may more accurately identify coronary artery plaques that are most likely to...
News: Imaging
Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) have created the world's thinnest lens, one two-thousandth the thickness of a human hair, opening the door to flexible computer displays and...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
SCAMP - the Stanford Climbing and Aerial Maneuvering Platform - is designed to fly, perch, climb, recover from failure, and take off. It operates outdoors on rough vertical surfaces like concrete and...
Global Vehicles: Transportation
Almost bizarrely for a car brand—and for a nation renowned for its predilection for large vehicles—GM's Cadillac is far behind its German premium-brand rivals in...
News: Design
The growing number of autonomous-car demonstration programs foreshadow a future of self-driving vehicles, but making the transition to series production is no easy feat,...
Videos: Medical
A Rice University team introduces its Sterile Box, a mobile, solar-powered facility to sterilize surgical instruments in low-resource settings. About a third of patients in...
INSIDER: Medical
Using an artificial fingertip surgically connected to nerves in the upper arm, an amputee felt smoothness and roughness textures in real time. The technology, developed by a team at Ecole...