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Articles: Communications
Automation can crumble, even when only one cog is loose, says Brad Walters from Monnit.
INSIDER: Propulsion
This new advance could pave the way for smaller, lighter, and more effective micro flying robots for environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and deployment in hazardous...
INSIDER: Software
Engineers at Caltech, ETH Zurich, and Harvard are developing artificial intelligence (AI) that will allow autonomous drones to use ocean currents to aid their navigation, rather than...
INSIDER: Aerospace
In the fifteenth century, artist and engineer Leonardo da Vinci envisioned a craft that flew using a single helix-shaped propeller — the aerial screw — viewed by many as...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, is helping NASA assess the risk of potential driving hazards on Mars.
Articles: Motion Control
The DPV concept matches the unique needs of electric vehicle cooling and energy management systems.
Articles: Motion Control
Learn how design engineers are making better gas meters.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Test servo drives, robot monitors, AC motors, and more
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
A new fabrication technique helps improve the performance of flying micro-robots.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A remotely controlled microswimmer could navigate the human body and aid in drug delivery.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Synthesized micro-robots can convert their mechanical motion into a means of self-propulsion in water.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
These “living machines” hold potential for applications from medical treatments to improving the environment.
Briefs: AR/AI
The software can be integrated with existing hardware to aid people using robotic prosthetics or exoskeletons.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A software makes industrial robots nimbler and almost as sensitive as human hands.
Articles: Motion Control
Create systems that efficiently and accurately complete testing cycles.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A new robot developed by Caltech researchers LEO carves out a new type of locomotion somewhere between walking and flying.
INSIDER: Design
It might be tiny, but Peter Ryseck’s Mini QBIT offers hobbyists some serious fun — and could help foster new innovations in the field of unmanned aviation.
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A pair of University of Houston engineers has discovered that they can create upward fountains in water by shining laser beams on the water’s surface. Jiming Bao, professor of...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Like snowflakes, no two branches are alike. They can differ in size, shape, and texture; some might be wet or moss-covered or bursting with offshoots. And yet birds can land on just about...
Special Reports: Test & Measurement
Vehicle Electrification - January 2022
Innovation is happening at a rapid pace in the e-mobility space. Read this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Automotive Engineering and Truck & Off-Highway Engineering to learn about...Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Breath-regulating garments, humidity sensors, thin-film antennas, and more.
INSIDER: Motion Control
Carnegie Mellon University's Iris rover is bolted in and ready for its journey to the moon.
INSIDER: Medical
People rarely walk at a constant speed and a single incline. We change speed when rushing to the next appointment, catching a crosswalk signal, or going for a casual stroll in the park. Slopes...
INSIDER: Motion Control
Modern agricultural tractors contain so much cutting-edge technology, they rival even the latest spacecraft. But the back end is still old-school, relying largely on fossil fuels....
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers at Caltech have built a bipedal robot that combines walking with flying to create a new type of locomotion, making it exceptionally nimble and capable of...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A mobile robot will go to the South Pole of the Moon — with help from radiation-hardened avionics.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
It can also find the nearest electric wall outlet to recharge without human assistance.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The model allows robots to ask clarifying questions to soldiers.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This mechanism improves rotordynamic stability in turbomachinery.
Top Stories
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Going for Gold in Winter Olympic Curling
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
INSIDER: Design
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Design
Blog: Materials
Making Tungsten Carbide a More Viable Alternative
INSIDER: Power
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