Articles: Power
The custom simulation app developed by the LaserBATMAN consortium can be used to help produce more robust battery designs with ranges that can support highway travel over longer distances with fewer failures — all while promoting the use of green energy. Read on to learn more.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Ultimately, the success of the battery industry will not be determined solely by breakthroughs in chemistry or capacity. It will be judged by its ability to manufacture at scale, safely, sustainably, and affordably. And that only hinges on quality assurance. Read on to learn more.
Application Briefs: Software
ABB Robotics is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries into ABB Robotics’ RobotStudio® to help manufacturers deploy physical AI in real-world robotics applications. Read on to learn more.
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
For a variety of industries, helping hands are often hard to find, and it’s an issue that’s been consistent in recent years. Given this, many companies are considering transitioning to automation, including through the use of collaborative robots or cobots, for short. Read on to learn more about them.
Products: Motion Control
See the new products, including Amada Weld Tech's next-generation UB Series Linear DC Resistance Weld Controls; Igus' ReBelMove Pro modular, customizable autonomous mobile robot; Logic's Octopus, an overhead industrial picking robot; and more.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Through a technology partnership that breaks new ground in the machine tool industry, Siemens offers an automation solution for the busy, multi-tasking, small to mid-sized machine shop, as it combines a digital twin of the software and programming of its popular SINUMERIK 828 CNC, working in tandem with a KUKA robot, to simplify the operation and programming in part handling for the machine tool operator. Read on to learn more.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
If you are building a high-accuracy gantry system inhouse, understand that the tolerance for error is measured in microns, while the number of interacting failure modes is vast. Read on for more tips.
Articles: Software
See the products of the month, including a new method that automatically keeps a fleet of robots moving smoothly; inspiration for a new class of materials built on interlocking particles; and a new chip design that could improve how GPUs convert and manage power.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In this interview, Argonne Scientist Jie Xu, also an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, discusses the results of her research and more. Read now!
Articles: Manned Systems
Powering momentum in the space sector is a new generation of commercial startups designing, building, and flight-testing breakthrough technologies that will enable sustained human presence in low-Earth orbit, on the Moon, and fuel deep-space missions. Read on for a look at eight emerging startups.
Products: Photonics/Optics
See what's new on the market, including SPIROL's newest machined aluminum threaded Inserts, designed for heat or ultrasonic installation into straight plastic holes; Mitutoyo America Corporation's CRYSTA-Apex V PLUS Series, a next-generation CNC coordinate measuring machine; Airmar Technology Corporation's next generation of its WeatherStation instruments; and more.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
SBQuantum’s diamond quantum magnetometer (SBQDM) represents a significant leap forward in addressing the challenge of magnetic navigation.
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Developed in part by NASA, the Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (SARSAT) technology carried by multiple satellites in middle- and low-Earth orbit, is now helping save lives in sea and on land.
5 Ws: Robotics, Automation & Control
A new robotic platform developed by Aithon Robotics enables safe, efficient work at height by combining drone mobility with human capability.
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Early LiDAR sensors, built on legacy mechanical architectures, proved the possibility of 3D perception but struggled to meet the demands of production. As the industry matures, the focus has shifted from simply detecting objects to doing so reliably, at scale, and at a price point suitable for commercial deployment. Read on to learn more.
Articles: Software
Edge software provides the controlled, secure interface manufacturers need to comply with the 2024 EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and other security mandates. Read on to learn more.
Application Briefs: Information Technology
Smart factories, smart buildings, smart grids, smart cars, make things run better, more productively, more sustainably, more accurately, more safely, and unfortunately, more vulnerable to attack. The more things are automated and interconnected, the more attention has to be given to protecting these systems from outside interference. Read on to learn how to combat cyberattacks.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Wide-scale applications for Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) became practical in the 1980s when they started being fabricated with the same silicon wafer processes as semiconductor chips. Once they could be mass produced, they found a major market in automobile safety systems as inertial sensors for airbag deployment. Then came the introduction of smart phones in the late 2000s. Read on to learn where they're heading.
Products: Electronics & Computers
See the new products, including EBE Elektro Bau Elemente GmbH's capacitive level sensor technology based on corTEC® technology for applications where conventional level sensors reach their limits; Abaco Systems' VP241, a SOSA-aligned 3U VPX FPGA carrier card designed to deliver unmatched flexibility for next-generation embedded computing applications; Emerson's Rosemount™ QX1000 Continuous Gas Analyzer; and more.
Articles: Materials
See the products of tomorrow, including a new material that can use sunlight and water to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide; a novel design for solar-powered data centers that will orbit the Earth and could realistically scale to meet the growing demand for AI computing while reducing the environmental impact of data centers; and more.
Products: Imaging
See what's new on the market, including The Imaging Source's Aptiris, USB 3.1 autofocus cameras designed for dynamic machine vision applications; Würth Elektronik's Proteus-IV and Ophelia-IV components, two new high-performance RF modules based on the latest Nordic nRF54L15-SoC semiconductor; Novotechnik U.S.'s Vert-X 13E Series of touchless rotary sensors; and much more.
Articles: Software
Edge AI is beginning to incorporate compact generative approaches to support greater autonomy. This shift is accelerating the adoption of COTS edge AI accelerators as an alternative to centralized processing and legacy radiation-hardened compute architectures. Read on to learn more.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Replacing an outdated solution with a next-generation MES can radically improve user experience and eliminate obsolete IT languages, operating systems, and hardware platforms. It can expand functionality in a single system and keep pace with change, supporting the entire processing lifecycle. Read on to learn more.
Products: Software
See the product of the month: Pickering Interfaces' Test System Architect, a free online graphical toolset designed to simplify signal path design for electronic test systems.
Articles: Transportation
In November 2023, technology development company Ganaio’s regenerative damper won the Automotive/Transportation category at the Create the Future contest. Find out what they’ve been up to since then.
Application Briefs: Energy
U.K.-based Pulsar Fusion has tested the physical architecture of a nuclear fusion exhaust system for space travel.
NASA Spinoff: Robotics, Automation & Control
With funding from NASA, PickNik Robotics developed and refined its robotic automation software and then worked with roboticists in Johnson Center to prove the software’s functionality.
5 Ws: Software
Buildings researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have released Building Energy Model AI (BEM-AI) is an open-source bot that can help energy modelers save time and money.
Articles: Energy
In the evolution of fast charging, success will not be measured solely by how quickly a new standard is adopted, but by how responsibly the industry manages the journey there. Read on to learn more.
