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Advanced entry level machining centers have flooded the market, providing equal opportunity between custom manufacturers to win profitable bids in response to a customer request for quotation (RFQ). For the advantage, machine shops now need to focus on estimation accuracy and response rate.

Nanobots have been designed to penetrate dense tissue — specifically the vitreous body of the eye.

The Bluefin-9 Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) from Bluefin Robotics (part of General Dynamics Mission Systems) is equipped with a variety of sensors to carry out survey, mapping and detection missions autonomously.

The fully automated process modernizes ancient blacksmith techniques, using furnaces, robots and lasers to craft car parts that help keep drivers and passengers safe.

The intelligent way to get standards, codes, specs and more – Engineering Workbench by IHS Markit.

GE Aviation’s single-spool turboshaft architecture is facing off against a dual-spool design by Advanced Turbine Engine Company in the U.S. Army’s competition to upgrade the T700 engines that power its Apache and Black Hawk helicopters.

The video shows life onboard the station as well as experiments undertaken by astronauts.

Characterized ball valves provide enhanced flow control along with several additional advantages compared to globe valves.

A new open-source numerical toolkit simulates the response of floating energy structures under realistic marine conditions in order to optimize system design.

A new modular robot from Cornell University can autonomously change shape based on its surroundings and the task at hand.

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a global navigation satellite system continuously broadcasting signals that allow receivers anywhere in the world to determine their location through a process of trilateration.

A new coating technology offers a way to keep oil from clogging filter membranes and other equipment used in the oil and gas industry.

A recent aerial survey of polar ice conducted by NASA’s Operation IceBridge team documented a peculiar iceberg formation in the northern Antarctic Peninsula.

Commercial activity on New York’s Erie and Champlain canals, two of America’s original superhighways, is on the rise.

The renewable resource-based sponge demonstrated high mechanical compressibility and excellent oil/water absorption selectivity.

A Greek merchant ship dating back more than 2,400 years has been found lying on its side off the Bulgarian coast.

FlyCroTug is a miniature flying robot that can move objects 40 times its own weight.

The system sends a deluge of water 100 feet into the air in under a minute.