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INSIDER: Transportation
Imagine simply telling your vehicle, “I’m in a hurry,” and it automatically takes you on the most efficient route to your destination.
INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Inventors and researchers have been developing robots for almost 70 years. To date, all the machines they have built have had one thing in common: they are powered by motors. Even...
INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have for the first time succeeded in combining two major research fields in photonics by creating a nanoobject with...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A new type of OLED (organic light emitting diode) could replace bulky night vision goggles with lightweight glasses, making them cheaper and more practical for prolonged use, according to...
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
Researchers in Purdue University’s College of Engineering have developed a patent-pending optical counterfeit detection method for chips used in semiconductor devices.
INSIDER: Energy
When cars, planes, ships, or computers are built from a material that functions as both a battery and a load-bearing structure, the weight and energy consumption are...
INSIDER: Automotive
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully demonstrated the first 270-kW wireless power transfer to a light-duty electric vehicle. The demonstration...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
To electrify everything from vehicles to heating systems to stovetops, the U.S. grid must expand by about 57% and get more flexible, too. Solar and wind energy are the renewables most...
INSIDER: Medical
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed microscopic robots, known as microrobots, capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver...
INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
An estimated 100 earthquakes worldwide cause damage each year. This damage includes collapsed buildings, downed electrical lines and more. For first responders, assessing...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, organized locations. These machines are used for a variety of applications — from...
INSIDER: Internet of Things
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are attempting to make a motion sensor so precise it could minimize the nation’s reliance on global positioning satellites. Until recently, such a sensor — a...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A new algorithm may make robots safer by making them more aware of human inattentiveness.
INSIDER: Connectivity
Communities could reduce costs and cut vehicle emissions — all in the name of shortening your trip.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
When electronic devices like laptops or smartphones overheat, they are fundamentally suffering from a nanoscale heat transfer problem. Pinpointing the source of that problem...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The Defense Department’s largest research organization has partnered with a Princeton University-led effort to develop advanced microchips for artificial...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The safety and efficiency of a large, complex nuclear reactor can be enhanced by hardware as simple as a tiny sensor that monitors a cooling system....
INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
Have you ever wondered how insects are able to go so far beyond their home and still find their way home? The answer to this question is not only relevant to biology but also to making the...
INSIDER: Design
Neural networks have made a seismic impact on how engineers design controllers for robots, catalyzing more adaptive and efficient machines. Still, these brain-like machine-learning...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers have developed a lightweight fluidic engine to power muscle-mimicking soft robots for use in assistive devices. What sets the new engine apart is its ability to...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
It’s not hard to imagine the potential value of a self-healing grid, one able to adapt and bounce back to life, ensuring uninterrupted power even when assailed by a hurricane or a group of bad...
INSIDER: Power
Purdue University engineers and the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) are working to make it possible for electric vehicles ranging from tractor-trailers to passenger cars to wirelessly...
INSIDER: Design
A study led by Nagoya University in Japan revealed that a simple thermal reaction of gallium nitride (GaN) with metallic magnesium (Mg) results in the formation of a distinctive...
INSIDER: AR/AI
Researchers who develop social robots — ones that people interact with — focus too much on design features and not enough on sociological factors, like human-to-human interactions, the...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Because they can go where humans can’t, robots are especially suited for safely working with hazardous nuclear waste. But first, those robots need to become like the humans...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Before a robot can grab dishes off a shelf to set the table, it must ensure its gripper and arm won’t crash into anything and potentially shatter the fine china. As part of its...
INSIDER: Motion Control
Researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated miniature soft hydraulic actuators that can be used to control the deformation and motion of...
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
Scientists have created innovative soft robots equipped with electronic skins and artificial muscles, allowing them to sense their surroundings and adapt their...
INSIDER: Medical
At first glance, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi’s molecular motors look like the microscopic worms you’d see in a drop of pond water. But these wriggling ribbons are not alive;...
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