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Space Qualified Piezoelectric Transducers on the Mars Rover

High performance piezoelectric transducers were sent to Mars after testing their reliability for 100 Billion cycles. They help to find out if there once was life on Mars. For more...

Voice Coil Z-Autofocus Motor Improves Performance of Laser Processing, Wafer Surface Metrology

Fast Nanopositioning stages are crucial for semiconductor surface metrology and laser machining applications. For more information click here.

Hexapod 6-DOF Motion System for Gyroscopic Platform Stabilization with Matlab

There are many optics and metrology related applications which require a stable work surface in an unstable environment, whether that environment is vibrating, in an...

6-Axis Active Photonics Alignment Systems Explained

Introduction to fast 6DOF active alignment of silicon photonics components, arrays, and wafer level probing. PI at Photonics West. Solutions include advanced alignment algorithms, parallel...

AI Advances at Hannover Messe 2023

Hannover Messe 2023 brought together over 130,000 attendees from around the globe to experience the latest technologies and AI trends transforming industrial production.

Model Simulates Variable Flap Stiffness for the Best Lift

There is extensive research on how a fixed-position flap affects lift in the realm of fluid-structure interaction. However, taking the conversation in a new direction, researchers at...

Autonomous Bus Sounds: It’s All About When, Not How

The town of Linköping, Sweden, has a small fleet of autonomous electric buses that carry riders along a predetermined route. The bright vehicles, emblazoned with the tagline, “Ride...

Self-Navigating Catamaran Can Carry Cargo into War Zones

A self-navigating, cargo-carrying sailboat designed by a team of Rice University engineering students could be a sustaining link for Marines hunkered down on shore during war. The...

Self-Powered Devices Provide Thermal Management for Ground Equipment and Aircraft

Paraffin-wax thermostatic actuators are used in various heating, cooling, or control/activation applications to keep systems operating at peak performance since...

Delivering mRNA Therapeutics to the Pancreas

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are one step closer to unlocking the potential of gene therapeutics to treat incurable pancreatic diseases, as they’ve created technology that delivers to...

Rice Tech Could Deliver Time-Released Drugs, Vaccines

It’s estimated that 50 percent of people don’t take their medications correctly. New technology developed at Rice University would give patients one shot and they’d be set for the...

Studying Bones and Seashells for Breast Cancer Research

A Cornell University interdisciplinary collaboration used a materials science approach to fingerprint the calcium mineral deposits, microcalcifications, that reveal pathological clues to...

How Risky is AI?

When AI is used for making health decisions, hiring decisions, financial credit decisions, or automobile-driving decisions, riskiness is a big deal — some people are working to reduce the risks.

Scaling the Solid-State Battery FEST

Start-up battery developer Factorial Energy’s workforce of engineers, chemists and other technology specialists has topped 100 with recent hirings in the Asia-Pacific region. A pilot manufacturing...

High-Speed Imaging for Combustion and Explosives Research

With speeds of over 1 million frames per second, high speed imaging is an invaluable research tool capable of capturing the most fleeting events in scientific and engineering...

Light-Based Optical Computing for Ultrafast Electronics

Physicists achieved optical switching of a light signal at attosecond speeds to reach previously unattainable data transfer speeds.

Vaccinations

What device, invented by a Scottish Physician, has made today's mass vaccinations possible?

WCX 2023: Making the ‘Smart Cockpit’ and UX Safer

The in-vehicle experience, also known as user experience (UX), is changing as technology evolves. “Everyone talks about AI for autonomy and ADAS, but I think it [artificial...

DARPA Seeks New Antenna Designs From Nontraditional Defense Contractors

DARPA is soliciting disruptive ideas from small businesses and nontraditional defense contractors for novel antenna designs, materials, manufacturing, or processing as...

Embraer Launches A-29N Super Tucano in NATO Configuration

Embraer recently launched the A-29 Super Tucano aircraft in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) configuration with an initial focus on meeting the needs of nations in...

Tomahawk Robotics to Develop Flexible Cyber-Secure Radio Systems for US Navy

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $55 million full-rate production contract for its Flexible Cyber Secure Radio (FlexCSR) program to Tomahawk Robotics.

Raytheon to Develop Counter UAS Sensors, Effectors for US Army

Raytheon Technologies was awarded a $237 million U.S. Army contract for Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensors (KuRFS) and Coyote® effectors to detect and defeat unmanned aircraft...

New Defense Department Contract to Expand Domestic Rocket Motor Manufacturing

The Department of Defense's (DoD) Office of Manufacturing Capability Expansion and Investment Prioritization (MCEIP) has entered into a $215.6 million agreement...

Behold: The Oxygen-Ion Battery

The oxygen-ion battery can be extremely durable, does not require rare elements, and thwarts fire hazards.

Fully Recyclable Printed Electronics Use Water, Avoid Toxic Chemicals

By avoiding hazardous chemicals, the work points down a path industry could follow to reduce its environmental footprint.

WCX 2023: Software-Defined Vehicle Development an Ongoing Headache for Industry

An auto industry wedded to its ingrained methods needs to adapt its engineering processes to develop the software that is increasingly central to nearly every...

How Well Do You Know Microgrids?

Do you know what microgrids are and how they work? Find out with this quiz.

Smart Helmets Prevent Head Trauma

Bearmind, an EPFL spin-off, has developed a smart helmet that provide a series of metrics enabling coaches to monitor the neurological effects of head impacts suffered by their players. The helmet is...

Thread-Like Pumps Power Next-Gen Wearables

A fiber-like pump allows high-pressure fluidic circuits to be woven into textiles without an external pump. Soft supportive exoskeletons, thermoregulatory clothing, and immersive haptics can...