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3D printing expedites coral reef restoration
Support structures printed with calcium carbonate photo-initiated ink speed reef colonization.
Automate farm inventory management with AgriView
A software-as-a-service web application is designed for the needs of agricultural cooperatives, seed companies, and suppliers of fertilizers and agricultural chemicals.
Icon, Lennar will bring 3D-printed community to Texas
The 3D-printed community will reportedly feature roughly 100 homes of various designs and is expected to break ground in 2022.
Successful demonstration of world’s highest-current water electrolyzer
Operation of a 50,000 A unipolar electrolyzer represents a breakthrough in large-scale green hydrogen production technology.
Transform ordinary pipe into a powerful conveyer for abrasive and heavy materials
The conveying rate is typically twice that of ordinary air powered conveyors.
Watch a demonstration of this interior painting robot
MYRO was designed to automate certain aspects of the construction industry and is reportedly 10 times faster at interior painting tasks than manual labor and is designed for 24 hours of operation.
Fluid vs. electric actuators: What's the better technology?
Are new electric actuators better than proven hydraulic or pneumatic designs?
Meeting the challenge of long-distance, heavy-duty material handling
The TKHD Series Cable Carrier is Tsubaki-KabelSchlepp’s proven long-distance, heavy-load specialist.
Grocery stores in Europe to employ disinfecting robots
Grocery stores feature a number of high traffic surfaces — refrigerator door handles, shopping cart handles and produce among others — that harbor potentially harmful bacteria and even antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Can zinc-based hydraulic fluids improve system performance?
Zinc-based hydraulic fluid has always produced more sludge and varnish than their counterparts. Shell has created a new fluid that goes against this stereotype.
Video: New robot arm launched by Geek+
According to Geek+, the robot arm is compatible with 8 m high racks, and can handle totes, cartons and boxes of various shapes.
Video: Fabric-covered wind turbine blades are set to soar
The tensioned textile-covered rotor blades feature a shape that can be actively changed to control loads.
Microextraction probe speeds safeguards analysis
Faster measurement of isotopic ratios of uranium and plutonium will help analysts detect the presence of undeclared nuclear activities or material.
More sophisticated voice-copying algorithms successfully fool voice-recognition devices
According to the University of Chicago team, the algorithms tricked the Resemblyzer nearly 50% of the time and Amazon Alexa roughly 62% of the time
Back to the basics for calculating fluid flow through an orifice plate
Orifice plates are vital in industries that handle liquid and gaseous products as they form the basis of fluid flow measurement in orifice flow meters.
Tech firm develops so-called smart dog tags for military personnel
The Multi-Domain Operations wearable device developed by NextFlex serves as what the company describes a sort of smart dog tag that is expected to improve the connectedness of soldiers.
Flippy Wings the chicken wing flipping robot developed by Miso Robotics
The Flippy Wings robot is an autonomous robot designed to fry chicken wings in restaurants, thereby freeing up staff to take on higher value, customer facing tasks.
Video: Autonomous drone re-supplies deployed military personnel
Autonomous electric-powered drones from Bell promise to keep deployed military personnel safe and concealed with drone deliveries of food, medical supplies and ammunition.
University turns sulfur into plastic
Sulfur promises to make plastic flame retardant.
Process automation control made simple
Panelicity Series 36 is a powerful process panel controller in a small package with pre-defined displays, alarms, trends, and standard industrial control strategy templates.