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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...

FailureNet: Detecting and Preventing AV Failures

Intelligent intersection managers can improve safety by detecting dangerous drivers or failure modes in autonomous vehicles, warning oncoming vehicles as they approach an intersection. Enter...

Experiment 3: DARPA RACER Highlights

DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program conducted in March its third experiment to assess the performance of off-road unmanned vehicles. The multiple courses were...

Developing Truly Autonomous (and Safe) Vehicles

The push toward truly autonomous vehicles has been hindered by the cost and time associated with safety testing, but a new system developed at the University of Michigan shows that AI can reduce...

Meet ARTEMIS — The World’s Fastest Walking Humanoid Robot

A soccer-playing, full-sized humanoid robot — ARTEMIS — with first-of-its-kind technology.

WCX 2023: Can You Drive like SAE J3300

A valid driver’s license from any country put attendees in the driver’s seat at SAE WCX 2023, allowing them to test their driving skills using SAE J3300, the driving skills standard used to...

GAO Recommends Changes to Army's Future Vertical Lift Acquisition Process

The U.S. Army is developing several aircraft systems to supplement and replace its aging fleet of helicopters. Aircraft in this portfolio, known as Future Vertical...

Air Force Forecasts 2040 Operating Environments in Global Futures Report

The Air Force published its Global Futures Report April 12, assessing four potential operating environments Airmen may have to navigate in before the turn of the...

Lockheed Martin CubeSats Demonstrate Essential Maneuvers for On-Orbit Servicing

Lockheed Martin’s In-space Upgrade Satellite System (LM LINUSS™) accomplished a successful on-orbit demonstration, proving how small satellites can serve an...

Battery-Free Smart Tags

Professor Patrick Mercier and his team at the University of California, San Diego, have developed an RFID smart tag that uses the signals generated by a smartphone to both read and power it.

WCX 2023: Biomimicry Inspires Product Development

Nature has always served as a giant classroom where problem-solving lessons are taught — a “storehouse of inspiration for new and different ideas,” noted Trisha Brown, co-director of...

Smart Bandage Aims to Facilitate Recovery

A Caltech-developed new kind of smart bandage aims to treat lingering wounds and help those who have trouble recuperating.

Powertrain, Electronics Lead Tech-Paper Topics at SAE’s WCX 2023

With engineers converging in mid-April for the 2023 WCX conference in Detroit, technical-paper presentations continue as the backbone of SAE’s annual congress.

Handicapping the ‘Race Toward Zero’

Kelly Senecal did not set out to champion the multi-modal approach to vehicle carbon reduction. He’s the CEO of Covergent Science, a company specializing in computational fluid dynamics. A...

NASA Supercomputer Has Theory on Moon’s Formation

In one of the highest resolution simulations of the Moon’s formation, a new NASA and Durham University supercomputer tells a different story of its origin: the Lunar surface may have formed...

Meet FRIDA — An AI-Powered Robot Creating Art

Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute has a new artist-in-residence: FRIDA, a robotic arm with a paintbrush taped to it. FRIDA — named after Frida Kahlo, stands for Framework and...

Fully Recyclable Printed Electronics Eschew Toxic Chemicals

Duke University engineers have produced the world’s first fully recyclable printed electronics that replace the use of chemicals with water in the fabrication process. The work...

How Much Do You Know About Computer Processors?

Test your knowledge about the facts, history, and individual elements of computer processors.

Robot Caterpillar Demonstrates New Locomotion Approach

Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a caterpillar-like soft robot that can move forward, backward, and dip under narrow spaces.

Tomahawk to Develop Common Control System for U.K. Human Machine Teaming Project

Tomahawk Robotics is developing new universal command and control technology.

Leonardo to Provide Electric Propulsion Components for Columbia-Class Submarine

Leonardo DRS, Inc. has been awarded contracts valued at over $1 billion to provide the integrated electric propulsion components for the U.S. Navy’s...

AFRL Conducts First Flight Experiments for Communications in Terahertz Band

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) researchers recently conducted flight experiments in Rome, New York to prove the viability of communications at radio...

Defense Leaders Receive First Intel SHIP Multi-Chip Prototype

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) last week celebrated a milestone achievement for the State-of-the-Art (SOTA) Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging (SHIP) Program with the...