Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Product of the Month: March 2019 Tech Briefs

Boothroyd Dewhurst, Wakefield, RI, announced Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA®) 2019 software for analyzing parts and assemblies. DFMA utilizes a question-and-answer interface that...

Blog: Software

Answering Your Questions: What Areas of Study Are Desirable for the Autonomous Industry?

With self-driving vehicles poised to take the road, how can today’s engineers prepare themselves to support an autonomous future?

Briefs: Software

Speedy Motor Modeling

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have created open source software that scales up analysis of motor designs to run on the fastest computers available.

Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control

Walking Robot Moves Without GPS

Ants are able to use polarized light and ultraviolet radiation to locate themselves in space. AntBot mimics this ability to explore its environment randomly and go home automatically, without GPS or...

Blog: Energy

Porous Carbon Fibers: How a Car Could Someday Store Its Energy 'Everywhere'

Tesla uses batteries to store energy underneath the car seats. What if we could store energy everywhere on the vehicle?

News: Materials

Inside Story: Low Outgassing Adhesives from Master Bond

Master Bond (Hackensack, NJ) focuses on developing the best in epoxies, silicones, UV cures, and other specialty adhesive systems including compounds that have passed NASA...

Blog: Materials

Graphene Breakthrough Puts Nanolithography ‘Back in the Toolbox’

Graphene may play a greater role in tomorrow electronics, thanks to an achievement from the Technical University of Denmark.

Technology Leaders: Communications

Accelerating SENT Troubleshooting and Debug Using an Oscilloscope

The SENT (Single Edge Nibble Transmission) bus continues to gain acceptance across the automotive industry and is widely used to transmit high-resolution readings from...

Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Answering Your Questions: Are There Regulations for Machine Learning in Vehicles?

How do you regulate a system that, in effect, is learning as it goes?

Blog: Aerospace

A Morphing Soft Actuator Expands the Motion Options

Even a shape-morphing plane is possible, says Harvard's Ehsan Hajiesmaili.

Blog: Materials

3D-Printed Rubber Repairs Itself

A new material development from USC brings us a step closer to self-healing sneakers.

INSIDER: Electronics & Computers

Computer Chip Vulnerabilities Discovered

A Washington State University research team has uncovered significant and previously unknown vulnerabilities in high-performance computer chips that could lead to failures in modern electronics....

INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

A Wireless, Battery-Free, Biodegradable Blood Flow Sensor

A new device developed by Stanford University researchers could make it easier for doctors to monitor the success of blood vessel surgery. The sensor monitors the flow of blood...

INSIDER: Electronics & Computers

Innovative Technique Could Pave the Way for New Generation of Flexible Electronic Components

The quest to develop microelectronic devices with increasingly smaller size, which underpins the progress of the global semiconductor industry...

Briefs: Photonics/Optics

Artificial Intelligence Device Identifies Objects at the Speed of Light

Numerous devices in everyday life use computerized cameras to identify objects — think of automated teller machines that can “read” handwritten dollar amounts when...

Products: Materials

New on the Market: February 2019

Nozzles

The Lee Company, Westbrook, CT, offers single- and multi-orifice lube nozzles in a variety of configurations. The nozzles may include HI-BAR^® safety screens for additional...

5 Ws: Medical

5 Ws of My Skin Track UV

Who

The device can optimize treatment of neonatal jaundice, skin diseases, and seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and reduce risk of sunburn and skin cancer.

Briefs: Energy

Material Removes Ice Buildup Without Power or Chemicals

From airplane wings, to overhead power lines, to the giant blades of wind turbines, a buildup of ice can cause problems ranging from impaired performance all the way to catastrophic...

Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Interactive Software Simplifies Complex Mold Design

Molding is a popular method for the mass production of objects. Essentially, two (or more) mold pieces are fit together, leaving the shape of the desired object as a hole. During...

Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition

Facility Focus: Savannah River National Laboratory

The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) — located in Aiken, SC — is the applied research and development laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River Site...