Automation and Control

HEADLINES ARCHIVE

  • Watch: Water quality sensors styled with human hair waste

    A carbon dot sensor synthesized from human hair biowaste provides real-time detection of chlorination disinfection by-products.

  • Wearable medical sensors drawn with pencil and paper

    A variety of medical sensors drawn on paper with a common graphite pencil can be applied to skin in a do-it-yourself approach to device design.

  • Aircraft hydraulic subsystems work together for redundancy

    Hydraulic systems on aircraft employ unique technologies to ensure passenger safety during hydraulic problems.

  • Coalition designs an autonomous vessel to keep offshore oil and gas platforms, wind farms safe

    A collective of maritime companies has designed an autonomous surveillance vessel to keep offshore structures safe from collisions.

  • Watch sound waves move droplets in a microfluidic platform

    A new rewritable and programmable microfluidic lab-on-a-chip system taps sound waves to create tunnels in oil to efficiently manipulate and transport droplets.

  • 2D solution for next-generation semiconductors

    Researchers from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) have developed a next-generation memory device using a two-dimensional layered-structure material.

  • Open data access for fair justice gets a boost from AI

    Researchers are developing an AI platform that allows users to access the information and insights within federal court records. Those records are currently behind a paywall and often require data and analytic expertise to find and analyze.

  • Watch: Shape-shifting implant materials are 3D printed

    A reactive 3D-printing method decouples printing and shape-programming steps, enabling a broad range of complex architectures and virtually any arbitrary shape changes.

  • Team answers mystery surrounding high-performance data storage

    The volume of the invar materials barely expands when heated and now researchers know why.

  • Video: A simple DIY ventilator for COVID-19 patients

    The do-it-yourself (DIY) emergency ventilator is based on the automation of the manually operated bag valve mask widely used to deliver air into a patient’s lungs.

  • Is the hyperloop about to go mainstream?

    U.S. House of Representatives includes Virgin Hyperloop in its future of transportation act.

  • Watch: A longer life for legacy robots

    Old robots do not have to die and fade away: they can be refurbished to extend and expand service life in a bid to improve the environmental sustainability of robotics technology.

  • Clippard debuts new high pressure control system

    Electronic valve manufacturer Clippard announces its Cordis HP500 high pressure controls featuring Clippard's EV line of electronic valves to allow for steady, repeatable downstream pressure under static conditions. The result is precise, linear pressure control within a closed-loop system.

  • Bringing self-driving car technology to space satellites

    AImotive and C3S are collaborating on a new platform for space observation, docking support, asteroid mining and more.

  • Novel machine learning produces 50 times higher-resolution climate data...fast!

    Researchers at NREL have developed a faster, more accurate way to enhance climate data by incorporating adversarial training into machine learning.

  • Valve manufacturer offers two valves in one

    Industrial control valve manufacturer Regeltechnik Kornwestheim (RTK) has introduced the RTK Discharge and Pump Protection Control Valve.

  • New valve tech company begins operations in China

    Neles’ new valve technology center in Jiaxing, China, has started its operations.

  • Watch the 3D printing of sensors onto a moving lung

    The 3D-printing system uses motion capture technology, similar to that associated with moviemaking, to print functional devices on and inside the human body.

  • Fleet of robotic birds developed by German company

    A team from a Germany-based robotics firm has developed a fleet of robotic birds.

  • Researchers develop specimen-taking robot

    In an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, a team of researchers from the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) has built a robot capable of collecting specimens from patients in healthcare settings.

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