HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Flying car startup Pal-V begins European Road Admission testing
But vehicles won’t be ready for the road until at least 2021.
Team creates single motor aquatic robot
A team from the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab has developed a single motor aquatic robot.
Johns Hopkins engineers develop snake robot for search and rescue
Engineers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a snake robot that can navigate difficult terrain to potentially perform functions associated with search and rescue missions.
MIT CSAIL develops technology to help autonomous vehicles navigate snow, rain
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a technique to enable autonomous vehicles to navigate through rain and snow.
Tesla crash: NTSB faults an "overreliance on technology"
“This tragic crash clearly demonstrates the limitations of advanced driver assistance systems available to consumers today,” said the NTSB chairman. “There is not a vehicle currently available to U.S. consumers that is self-driving."
Algorithm enables driverless cars to avoid bottlenecks, collisions
Researchers from Northwestern University have created a decentralized algorithm to enable autonomous vehicles to avoid traffic jams and collisions.
AI-equipped robots could inspect and repair power plant boilers
The robots would also allow automated live inspection, reduce risk to human operators during maintenance or unplanned outages and enable smart collection of well-organized data.
Smart factory expansion is completed for appliance production
The expansion is intended to boost production capacity by 25% and enables compliance with 2022 refrigerant changes.
Air New Zealand joins NASA climate science mission
An Air New Zealand Q300 domestic aircraft is being fitted with special receivers developed by NASA to collect data for environmental and climate monitoring.
US military eyeing facial recognition tech that can identify people 11 football fields away
The United States military is funding the development of facial recognition technology that can identify people from as far as roughly 11 football fields, or 1 kilometer (km), away.
New hydraulic hose from Gates
Fluid power and power transmission solutions manufacturer Gates has announced the availability of its new hydraulic hose.
New safety valves from Atos
Italian electrohydraulics company Atos has announced its new Atos SpA hydraulic safety valves.
Mitsubishi tapped to design Mars moon lander
The MMX's mission is to determine the origins of Mars and its two moons, as well as learn how water and organic substances became part of the primordial solar system.
Daimler and Torc expand public road testing for self-driving trucks
The goal is to collect more data on different roads to further Level 4 autonomous driving development.
Watch: WellConnect app for pump system installers and water well contractors
The app offers a single platform for the digitization of installation records, including drilling logs, completion and downhole data, pump history and maintenance history.
Artificial skin may pave way for empathetic robot caregivers
A team of researchers from Japan’s Osaka University has developed artificial skin that enables robots to feel pain, which may eventually encourage robots to show and feel empathy for humans, making such robots potentially appropriate for future caregiving applications.
Scientists to study gamers' brainwaves to improve robot swarms
With funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), scientists from the University of Buffalo are turning to gamers to help improve and enhance the capabilities of robot swarms.
High-performance, small-frame BLDC motors
The trend toward miniaturization continues to reduce size, weight and, ultimately, cost. This trend is also driving the need for highly efficient brushless DC (BLDC) motor solutions.
Watch: Yamaha accepting orders for high-performance electric motor prototype
Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. is accepting orders for a high-performance electric motor prototype capable of producing industry-leading high power density for automobiles and other types of vehicles.
Social robot teaches students cybersecurity lessons through storytelling
Researchers from the University of Delaware have programmed a social robot to teach young students about cybersecurity.