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Question of the Week: Imaging
Would You Use ‘PocketView?’
Ever need your phone but your hands are full? A new display being developed at the University of Waterloo uses LEDs to display phone messages through fabrics. The “PocketView” shows notifications for email or messages, time, weather, or other forms of basic information.
Videos: Medical
What controller is best for your application? Learn about the different controllers and how to choose the right one in this short video.
Videos: Medical
There are multiple steps to selecting a drive system. We need to know what the application is and what it is going to do so we can start to develop a drive system that will meet your needs. Learn how to select...
Videos: Medical
maxon's precision drive systems are not only present on Mars, but everywhere else on Earth. To understand the different markets and our customers' needs, the maxon group has established four...
Videos: Medical
Learn about the latest in drive technology from maxon in this short video.
Videos: Medical
Joe Martino - Sales Engineer for maxon precision motors, discusses the key differences between brushed and brushless DC motors.
Blog: Materials
A plastic known as 2DPA-1 is super-strong and super-light.
Trivia: Test & Measurement
In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, this month’s question hails from Ireland. What Irish-born medical device changed the face of esophageal function testing?
News: Electronics & Computers
Two new players on the hardware and software side of advanced high-resolution automotive radars have announced a partnership. Austin, Texas-based Uhnder, which lays claim to the first digital...
INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
This new advance could pave the way for smaller, lighter, and more effective micro flying robots for environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and deployment in hazardous...
INSIDER: AR/AI
Engineers at Caltech, ETH Zurich, and Harvard are developing artificial intelligence (AI) that will allow autonomous drones to use ocean currents to aid their navigation, rather than...
INSIDER: Design
In the fifteenth century, artist and engineer Leonardo da Vinci envisioned a craft that flew using a single helix-shaped propeller — the aerial screw — viewed by many as...
Podcasts: Green Design & Manufacturing
Canadian battery recycling company Li-Cycle is leveraging its sustainable process to provide an end-of-life solution for lithium-ion batteries.
Blog: Energy
A reader asks: Is the design approach for electric vehicles similar to a vehicle with an internal combustion engine?
Videos: Motion Control
Looking for a lead screw for your automotive application? dryspin® lead screws and nuts are ideal for actuating various automotive applications, such as windows, seats and air...
News: Power
When I look at our ‘toolbox,’ we’ve got one cell chemistry that delivers high energy density, is low cost, but it doesn’t have optimum cycle life,” veteran battery engineer Mujeeb Ijaz noted. “And...
INSIDER: Motion Control
For those onboard a commercial jet, the lowering of the landing gear is a familiar sound signaling the home stretch of the flight. Then comes the sound of wheels on the tarmac, and...
INSIDER: Imaging
Through a Small Business Innovative Research contract awarded to MetroLaser, Inc., by the U.S. Navy, a system is being developed to measure the gas velocity of engine exhaust to...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, and Boeing announced Honeywell as the engine provider for DEFIANT X®, the advanced helicopter for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
Accessories come in all shapes and sizes, and it’s important to have those additional components that ease installation, provide extra stability, and enable a cleaner connection for your designs....
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Do You See Valuable Applications for ‘Meta-Sense?’
A Tech Brief this month highlighted a manufacturing method from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that integrates sensing capabilities into 3D-printed objects.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
A new technology uses nanoscale sensors and fiber optics to measure water status just inside a leaf’s surface, where water in plants is most actively managed.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new control mechanism may prove useful in devices that make use of optical signals.
News: Electronics & Computers
It’s happening – the transition to EVs is undeniably underway. Recent launches such as Ford’s Mustang Mach-E, versatile-body-style EVs from mainstream brands Hyundai and Kia and forthcoming...
Application Briefs: Energy
Hybrid-electric propulsion systems hold clear potential to reduce aircraft carbon dioxide emissions and support the goal of greater sustainability in aviation.
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
With a new kind of artificial muscle, a team at MIT can build diminutive drones that zip around with a bug-like agility and resilience.
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
A “farmHand” robotic manipulator takes its inspiration from one of nature’s most fascinating wall crawlers.
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
Engineers from North Carolina State University tasked a robotic gripper with its toughest challenge to date: a raw egg yolk.
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A pioneering project is aiming to develop a new capability for real-time, remote ultrasonic imaging that can be used for nondestructive evaluation. The project will examine how...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
Brain Implant Enables Safer Drug Delivery
Features: Medical
Built to Adapt: Rethinking Contract Manufacturing for a New Era
Features: Materials
OEM Toll Processing Advances High-Value Products
From the Editor: Medical
From The Editor: Charting the Technologies That Will Shape Medtech in 2026
INSIDER: Medical
Oxygen Scavenger Doubles Biosensor Performance
Features: AR/AI
Engineering for the Future: The Trends Transforming Medtech in 2026
Ask the Expert
Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Medical
Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices
Podcasts: Design
Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless Medical Devices
Podcasts: AR/AI
Personalized Medicine and Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Green Design & Manufacturing
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.