HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Flying car startup Volocopter raises $55 million
The funding will be used to produce a commercially viable VTOL aircraft in the next three years.
First ABB electric propulsion to be installed on board a bulk carrier
Two self-unloading dry cargo transshipment units will be the first bulk carriers in the industry to feature ABB’s Azipod electric propulsion.
5 cybersecurity resources for small manufacturers
Attacks can affect production and compromise data integrity. NIST estimates that the median cost of a data breach is around $60,000, a potentially significant sum for small manufacturers in competitive markets.
Surgeon performs cardiovascular procedures on patients 20 miles away
A surgeon in India has conducted what is being touted as the first ever long-distance heart surgery on patients in an operating room roughly 20 miles away.
New sensors on Florida bridges will measure hurricane impacts
A team of researchers from the University of Florida is attaching sensors to concrete bridges in Florida togather real-time data about rising water and wave impact on bridges during hurricanes.
Leech-like robot can climb up and down vertical walls
Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT) in Japan and the University of Cambridge in the U.K. have developed a leech-like robot that can climb vertical walls.
E-glove offers hand prosthetics life-like human hand qualities
Researchers at Purdue University have developed an electronic glove (or e-glove) to enhance hand prosthetics, giving them more human-like qualities and offering the wearer sensory perception.
Indian robot automatically finds and collects litter
AGDC detects and locates waste, and then collects it using an attached robotic gripper.
Efficient and intelligent feeders featuring power savings of 80%
Deprag offers efficient and intelligent feeders that have a reduced power consumption of up to 80%.
When and how to introduce factory automation
In an industrial environment, manufacturing engineers are faced with myriad choices for new and emerging robotic products and technologies that provide various degrees of automation.
Isolating acoustic noise to improve sand monitoring capabilities
SMS Oilfield in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde is developing an acoustic Sand Monitoring System (SMS).
Researchers develop pen-like device for improving cancer surgery outcomes
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a pen-like device to help surgeons distinguish between where a tumor begins and where it ends — a possible marker of a successful cancer surgery.
How smart devices and the IIoT are driving predictive maintenance programs
The rise of smart devices ushered in by Industry 4.0 has led to an increase in the practice of predictive maintenance (PdM).
Rising MRO trend: Industrial vending
The devices, which dispense industrial supplies, offer a host of benefits including automated supply management and inventory control, reduced labor costs and lower operational downtime.
This camera can see deep into the universe
The digital sensor array includes roughly 200 16-megapixel sensors, divided into 21 modules that will view an area of sky that can fit more than 40 full moons in a single image.
Video: Battery-free piezoelectric sensor could enable an underwater IoT
The sensor could study marine life, track climate change or investigate water on other worlds.
Russian robot and rocket destined for the International Space Station
This week, Russia launched an unmanned rocket along with a life-sized humanoid robot on board destined for the International Space Station.
How does a jet engine work? Brayton thermodynamic cycle and efficiencies
Learn how a jet engine manages energy and work to achieve jet propulsion as well as about measures of efficiency that describe how efficiently jet engines convert energy to work.
NASA plans mission to explore Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter
The Clipper space probe will look for the potential for life.
Researchers developing an app to prevent workplace injuries
A team of researchers from the University of Washington are using machine learning to devise a new system for monitoring factory and warehouse workers for risky behaviors that have the potential to result in work-related injury.