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INSIDER: Materials
Researchers have created a class of robots made from thin sheets of material that can snap into hundreds of stable shapes — allowing them to execute a wide variety of...
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INSIDER: Research Lab
Researchers from UMass Amherst are working to define the primary mathematical components of running. Compared to walking, much less is understood about...
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INSIDER: Imaging
Researchers have been developing computers that deploy light, or photons, rather than electricity to power storage and calculations. These light-based computers...
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
NLM Photonics has confirmed that its patented silicon organic hybrid (SOH) photonic chips, featuring Selerion-HTX™ and JRD1, have successfully arrived at the International...
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INSIDER: Design
Imagine a tiny robot, no bigger than a leaf, gliding across a pond’s surface like a water strider. One day, devices like this could track pollutants, collect water samples or scout...
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INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Berkeley alumni Todd Roberts (MEng’20 ME) and Owen Kent (B.A.’17 Film) have shown how an idea can turn into a product that makes a difference. The pair first developed Reflex,...
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude have experienced a meteoric rise in usage over the past three years because they can help you with a wide range of tasks....
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers have developed a soft robotic skin that enables vine robots a few millimeters wide to navigate convoluted paths and fragile environments. To accomplish...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A few years ago, researchers in Michal Lipson’s Columbia Engineering lab noticed something remarkable. They were working on a project to design high-power chips that could...
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INSIDER: Physical Sciences
University of Houston researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery in thermal conductivity, overturning an existing theory that boron arsenide (BAs) couldn’t compete with...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Electric vehicles (EVs) can have lower fuel costs and reduce emissions relative to cars that use gasoline, but they are only a practical option if drivers have convenient ways to charge them. For people who...
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INSIDER: Lighting
For more than 30 years, researchers have been trying to create small gears in order to construct micro-engines. But progress stalled at 0.1 millimeters, as it was not possible to build the...
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INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
Introducing X1: The world's first multirobot system that integrates a humanoid robot with a transforming drone that can launch off the humanoid's back and, later, drive away. The versatile team can...
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
From sorting objects in a warehouse to navigating furniture while vacuuming, robots today use sensors, software control systems, and moving parts to perform tasks. The harder the task or more complex the...
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INSIDER: Motion Control
The path to recovery for stroke survivors taking their first tentative steps, or individuals navigating daily challenges from balance disorders, often feels...
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INSIDER: Energy
As the mobility industry rapidly evolves, Freudenberg continues to expand its portfolio with high-performance, application-specific solutions...
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INSIDER: Design
A panel of four battery testing experts from different fields agreed that large scale fire testing, as called for in a proposed update to testing standard...
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INSIDER: Energy
Bosch Rexroth displayed new battery automation solutions at The Battery Show 2025 in Detroit this week, focusing on making batteries in a more...
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INSIDER: Energy
Prestone is exhibiting its Prestone EVX™ collection of electrified vehicle (EV and hybrid) thermal management fluids that meet newly...
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Technology Report: Energy
Engineers looking for a new way to simulate battery cells as they develop new battery management systems might be interested in the latest PXI battery simulator modules...
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Technology Report: Energy
A GM battery executive told an audience at the Battery Show North America audience Tuesday that the company would deploy a lithium manganese-rich (LMR) battery by 2028 in some of its...
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INSIDER: Design
Tal Sholklapper, cofounder and CEO of Voltaiq, a battery analytics company, made bold statements on the eve of the Battery Show in 2024 that Western and...
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INSIDER: Energy
Bel Fuse Inc., a global manufacturer of products that power, protect, and connect electronic circuits, has launched BCF19-700-8, a 19.2 kW liquid-cooled on-board...
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INSIDER: Design
As EV battery designs continue to explore new pack shapes, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has developed a new, flexible busbar sealing technology that enables...
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INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it’s a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A research team led by physicists Ming Yi and Emilia Morosan from Rice University has developed a new material with unique electronic properties that could enable more powerful and...
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INSIDER: RF & Microwave Electronics
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have designed a novel transmitter chip that significantly improves the energy efficiency of wireless communications, which could boost the...
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INSIDER: Medical
Traditionally, measuring heart rate requires some sort of wearable device, whether that be a smart watch or hospital-grade machinery. But new research from engineers at the...
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INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
Training humanoid robots to hike could accelerate development of embodied AI for tasks like autonomous search and rescue, ecological monitoring in unexplored places and...
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