Mechanical/​Mechatronics

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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Square trusses replace round for enhanced strength and robotics compatibility.
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Briefs: Automotive
This technology could help control driverless cars and automated warehouses.
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INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A small, inexpensive, and highly accurate gyroscope, developed at the University of Michigan, navigates without GPS. The key to making the gyroscope is a nearly symmetrical mechanical resonator...
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Blog: Transportation
As autonomous cars collect data on passing pedestrians, cyclists, and license plates, what privacy measures are in place? A reader asks.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D printing is being used to quickly create life-saving parts and prototypes like masks, shields, and ventilator valves.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
A reader asks, "What market drivers need to occur for electric vehicles to be considered an acceptable replacement for vehicles with internal combustion engines?"
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This framework can be used by commercial and military aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles.
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5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learn about the Pedestrian Audio Wearable System (PAWS), a low-cost, headset-based, wearable platform.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
We spoke with five women who lead their fields in engineering and science
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The sensor makes it easier to detect and manage ice accumulation on aircraft wings.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This system protects workers on lightning and telecommunications towers, and on oil and gas platforms.
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Briefs: Energy
This technology could impact new directions in robotics design.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Mary Hardgrove spearheads an entire assembly department that provides next-generation mechanical cable innovations
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Applications include valves, tubes, and other gas and fluid system components.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The device retrains patients with spinal cord injury to sit more stably and gain an expanded active sitting workspace.
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Briefs: Aerospace
These actuators provide active flow control for airfoil surfaces and supersonic inlets of wing-borne vehicles.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The additive creates fuel from biomass while improving engine performance.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Dr. Beth Holloway has been the Director of the Women in Engineering Program at Purdue University since 2001 and serves as...
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Briefs: Aerospace
This trailing edge flap device reduces noise without compromising cruise efficiency or landing lift and stall characteristics.
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Articles: Regulations/Standards
In the past 15 years, Renee Bernstein doubled the growth of her company by focusing her attention to research and product development.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This cost-saving piping insulation has uses in refrigerated containers that protect food, medicine, and other perishables.
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Articles: Energy
Your preview of one of the largest technical mobility events of the year.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The bus is designed for high-frequency, high-temperature operation in electric drive systems and next-generation power electronics.
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Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
Beta Technologies is putting their Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) prototype through the wringer.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Drones, smartphones, and sensors could provide a lifeline to the world’s growing elderly population at risk of falls.
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Articles: Connectivity
To clear up some of the confusion about what the industry means when it says 5G, here’s a guide to what it’s all about.
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Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An interview with Mike Horton, CTO of ACEINNA, Inc. (Boston, MA).
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