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How the Air Force Is Seeding the Future of Collaborative Airpower

Born in the lab and built for scale, the Air Force’s first collaborative combat aircraft mark the opening move in a new era of airpower. Emerging directly from AFRL programs,...

DARPA Pushes AI Into the Hardest Medical Decisions

DARPA is advancing AI that can navigate disaster zones, interpret noisy real-world vital signs, and support medics with faster, more consistent triage decisions. By training algorithms on...

Innovative Control System Theory for Complex Networks

Leila Bridgeman and her team at Duke University Pratt School of Engineering are developing software that will improve upon existing techniques to ensure robust and safety-assured control for complex autonomous systems such as drones and medical robotics.

DarkSky One Wants to Make the World a Darker Place

A Q&A with the CEO and executive director of DarkSky International, Ruskin Hartley, about the DarkSky One concept car.

CES 2026: Bosch is Ready to Bring AI to Your (Likely ICE-powered) Vehicle

Bosch’s efforts to connect the digital and physical worlds can be seen in a meaningful update to its Vehicle Motion Management system.

A Proactive Approach to Hydraulic Health in Class 8 Trucks

Doubling the life of hydraulic oil and components is an achievable outcome of a well-executed program.

First Drive: 2027 Mercedes-Benz CLA Hybrid

The 2027 CLA hybrid uses one of two powertrains coming to the German sedan, alongside an electric version. Both will be available in the second half of 2026, according to Mercedes, and both are built on the new MMA (Mercedes Modular Architecture) platform. Read on to learn more.

Accelerating Down the Road to Autonomy

Commercial success of the autonomous truck may be closer than we think.

A Re-regionalized Industry

Any supply issues upstream will reverberate exponentially.

H2-ICE Is Heating Up

Zero-carbon fuels are gaining momentum for hard-to-electrify mobility sectors as well as for stationary power generation. Hydrogen internal combustion engines are staking their claim as a future pathway for long-haul trucking, heavy off-highway machines, maritime vessels, and gensets. Test your knowledge about hydrogen combustion engines in this quiz.

SAE Media Group Acquires Aviation Carbon Event to Expand Aerospace Portfolio

SAE Media Group®, an SAE International company and a leading global provider of conferences and publications for aerospace, defense, and other critical industries, has announced its acquisition of Aviation Carbon, the specialist event platform dedicated to carbon reduction, sustainability, and decarbonization across the aviation industry.

Biogenic Ashes Offer a Low-Carbon Future for Concrete

ETH Zurich researchers are developing cement substitutes from biogenic waste, such as crop residues and other organic by-products, by converting them into reactive ashes or biochar. These...

Forging the Future of Sustainable Materials

New York City is launching Gotham Foundry, a $45 million, first-of-its-kind sustainable materials innovation hub aimed at redefining the circular materials economy at the intersection of nature,...

Breaking Down the NB Rotary Ball Spline

NB’s rotary ball splines are ideal for applications requiring linear and/or rotational motion. The product line’s unique design features a spline nut with a rotating portion that moves via cross...

NB’s Award Winning BG Linear Actuator

BG linear actuators combine the functionality of a linear slide guide and precision ball screw in a single component. A U-shaped guide rail and interior slide block enables the actuator to double as both...

Turning Edible Fungi into Organic Memristors

Researchers from The Ohio State University recently discovered that common edible fungi, such as shiitake mushrooms, can be grown and trained to act as organic memristors, a type of data processor that can remember past electrical states.

Oxygen Scavenger Doubles Biosensor Performance

Researchers have developed an oxygen scavenger that consumes excess oxygen by converting it into water. Crucially, this alcohol oxidase does not react with the actual target substances —...

CES 2026: Caterpillar Launches AI Assistant for Jobsites and Machines

Caterpillar used the CES 2026 venue to unveil Cat AI Assistant.

Digital Tech a Las Vegas Headliner

SAE Media interviewed Erik Neandross, president of the Clean Transportation Solutions group at TRC, about the upcoming ACT Expo.

Rapidly Evaluating Heat Shield Materials

A team of engineers at Sandia National Laboratories has developed ways to rapidly evaluate new thermal protection (heat shield) materials for hypersonic vehicles.

Stanford Researchers Develop Flexible Color-Changing Material

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential applications in camouflage, art, robotics, and...

A New Tool for Measuring Femtosecond Lasers

Ultrashort laser pulses — that are shorter than a millionth of a millionth of a second — have transformed fundamental science, engineering and medicine. Despite this, their ultrashort duration...

NVIDIA Includes Ethernet Photonics in New Six-Chip AI Rubin Platform

NVIDIA is bringing Ethernet networking with co-packaged optics to artificial intelligence (AI) factories, enabling scale-out and scale-across on the NVIDIA Rubin platform...

GM’s Barra: Electric Vehicles Are Still the Future

GM CEO Mary Barra says the future of the company is still electric, but that it must remain flexible in a changing regulatory and customer-demand environment.