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Autonomous Car Shelley Tears Around Racetrack, Nears Speeds of 120 Mph

For the past several years, Stanford University researchers have been testing their autonomous driving algorithms with Shelley, a custom-rigged Audi TTS, on the three-mile...

New FDA Chief Confirmed by Senate

Dr. Robert M. Califf, a cardiologist, researcher, and founder of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, was confirmed by the Senate on February 24 as the next Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Administration...

GE Scanner Enhances Defect Detection for Industrial CT

GE Measurement & Control is offering its proprietary scatter|correct technology to industrial microCT users of GE’s phoenix v|tome|x m CT (computed tomography) system. It provides...

Flexible Electronics that Quadruple in Length Can Be Stretched A Million Times

EPFL researchers have developed conductive tracks that can be bent and stretched up to four times their original length, and they can be stretched a million times...

Snake Study Supports Bio-Inspired Robotics

A University of Cincinnati team has acquired a better understanding of how brown tree snakes lodge themselves in place during climbing. The resulting knowledge could lead to new bio-inspired robotic...

Researchers Use Rust to Improve 3D-Printing Process

A team of Northwestern researchers has created a new way to print three-dimensional metallic objects using rust and metal powders.

Antibiotic-Infused Implants Support Facial Reconstruction Recovery

A gel created by Rice University researchers delivers time-released antibiotics to ward off infection while a patient heals from facial reconstruction procedures. Porous...

Dry EEG Sensors Monitor Brain Activity

Bioengineers and cognitive scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have built a portable, 64-channel wearable brain activity monitoring system. The technology features dry EEG sensors that...

Two-Stage Power System Boosts Energy-Harvesting Efficiency

A two-stage power management and storage system from Georgia Institute of Technology improves the efficiency of triboelectric generators to harvest energy from irregular human motion,...

Multi-material Structures Move mpg Upward

Multi-material vehicles are nothing new. Aluminum, plastics, and other “exotic” materials have long joined steel in the material mix of road-going cars and trucks, notably in powertrain and...

Cars Poised to Become ‘A Thing’

The Internet of Things (IoT) will be the next transformational aspect of connectivity, enabling machines to communicate with each other without human intervention. Autos are becoming a major player in...

Agility Training for Cars

As personal mobility moves toward the perhaps inevitable singularity of automatically piloted pods able to totally isolate passengers from any sensation of the surrounding world, today’s manually piloted cars are adding systems to aid with guidance and improve isolation from bumps in the road. Read on to learn more.

Single Mode Fiber Coupler

A new opto-mechanical tool for coupling light into single-mode fiber optics from Siskiyou Corporation (Grants Pass, OR) offers a combination of high precision adjustment in a very compact package. Specifically,...

Laser Power Detector

greenTEG (Zurich, Switzerland) has further miniaturized its laser power sensing technology for OEM applications. The gRAY B0.5-SC measures up to 500 mW on a surface of only 2x2 mm2. The detector is available as bare die...

Laser Micro-Machining Heads

Quantum Composers (Bozeman, MT) announced the addition of a full line of complete laser micromachining heads for semiconductor applications. These systems will feature an integrated DPSS Jewel ND:Yag laser, a...

Area-Scan Cameras

Teledyne DALSA (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has introduced nine new Genie Nano area cameras. Built around ON Semiconductor’s Python CMOS image sensors, the cameras include two inputs, two opto-coupled outputs, and a...

Voice Coil Actuator

Voice Coil Actuator BEI Kimco (Vista, CA) has introduced a family of linear unhoused Voice Coil Actuators (VCAs) with aperture sizes of 15 mm, 20 mm, and 24.9 mm. The through-hole design allows an OEM assembly to pass...

XUV Spectrometer

McPherson’s (Chelmsford, MA) grazing incidence wavelength dispersive optical spectrometer allows rapid analysis of spectral light in the ~1 to 300 nm wavelength region (4 to 1200 eV). Beside high-harmonic laser generation...

CCD Color Line Scan Camera

Chromasens (Constance, Germany) has announced the allPIXA™ pro color line scan CCD camera for high-speed machine vision applications. The allPIXA pro, with line rates up to 92 kHz in standard models and up to 156...

Spectrum Analyzer

Siglent Technologies (Solon, OH) has introduced a new line of digital spectrum analyzers. The SSA3000X Series includes two new models with frequency ranges from 9 kHz to 2.1 GHz and 9 kHz to 3.2 GHz. These new spectrum...

3D AOI Inspection System

Saki Corporation (San Jose, CA) has debuted its 3rd-generation 3D automated optical inspection (AOI) line that accommodates dual lanes, XXL sizes, and increases throughput by 15%. Saki’s new BF- 3Di-D (dual lane) and...

Product of the Month

Ultra-thin, Single-Element Miniature Force Sensors Pressure Profile Systems, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, unveiled the SingleTact, a high-performance miniature capacitive force sensor that delivers superior sensitivity and...

High-Powered, Fiber-Coupled, Acousto-Optic Modules

Brimrose Corporation of America, Sparks, MD, introduces a new line of high-powered, fiber-coupled, acousto-optic modules (AOMs) that can withstand up to 5W of continuous wave optical power for...

UV Specialty Hybrid Adhesives

Epoxy Technology, Inc., Billerica, MA, introduces its new line of UV Hybrid adhesives branded with an “HYB” prefix. The new UV Hybrid products are based on the company’s widely used EPO-TEK 353ND and 301...

PCF Metering System

Graco, North Canton, OH, announces its Precision Continuous Flow (PCF) metering dispense system for critical applications of single-component sealant and adhesive materials. Engineered for automated applications, the system...

Luer Testing Services

Medical Murray, North Barrington, IL, a leading device development and contract manufacturing company with ISO 13485 certification and FDA registration, now provides comprehensive testing services for Luers including ISO...

Metal Line Switches with Multicolor Illumination

SCHURTER Inc., Santa Rosa, CA, is expanding its metal switch range to include new illumination possibilities using RGB color technology. It is now possible for piezo switch series, PSE, and...