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Why Car Factories Now Have High-Quality Electron Microscopes
Powerful electron microscopes are extremely valuable in science laboratories. However, they are used elsewhere as well. For example, SEAT, a Spanish automotive manufacturer, decided to show how this powerful tool is used in the automotive industry.
Jumping Droplets Whisk Away Hotspots in Electronics
Engineers have developed a technology to cool hotspots in high-performance electronics using the same physical phenomenon that cleans the wings of cicadas.
Climate Change to Increase Severe Aircraft Turbulence
The study is the first ever to examine the future of severe turbulence, which causes planes to undergo random up-and-down motions that are stronger than gravity.
Innovative Sensor Can Screen Toxic Drugs, Help Develop Biomaterials and Much More
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found an innovative new use for a simple piece of glass tubing: weighing things.
Boeing’s Deep Space Gateway Concept Unveiled
Boeing revealed its concepts for a deep space gateway and transport system that could serve as a platform to send humans into deep space, near the moon and beyond.
Mapping the Origins of Stars and Galaxies
A powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths is under development.
Steam Turbine Control Made Easy
The system covers almost all standard control applications on steam turbines and is pre-engineered with software for simple parameter-setting and commissioning.
Festo Corporation Introduces New Sanitary Valves
Festo Corporation introduced new sanitary ball, angle seat, and pinch valves at Interphex 2017. With this introduction, Festo claims to offer seamless automation from control cabinet to pipe for steam, inert gases, water, cleaning solutions and powders applications.
Robot Connectivity Boosts GM Productivity
General Motors Co. has connected about a quarter of its 30,000 factory robots to the Internet and says that it is benefiting from less down time.
Groundwater Management with Smart Hand Pumps
University of Oxford researchers are using low-cost mobile sensors fitted to existing hand pumps to provide water resource data.
Floating Sensor Fingerprints Spilled Oil
A low-cost, floating fluorometer incorporating an array of four photodiode detectors detects and distinguishes among different types of crude and refined oil.
Video: Robots have an impact on jobs and pay. GE deploys advanced analytics to cut drilling rig costs. An ATV goes the distance with a practical fuel cell.
Video: Robots have an impact on jobs and pay. GE is deploying advanced analytics on drilling rigs to cut costs. An ATV goes the distance with a practical fuel cell.
Mini Medical Agents: Self-Propelled Nanojets
Nanorobots under development for medical diagnostics or drug delivery are propelled by enzyme-triggered biocatalytic reactions or bubble oscillations.
Designing Low Earth Orbit Satellites
Remote sensing satellites that can operate at 200-450 km (124-280 miles) above the Earth’s surface are being developed under a European Union research initiative.
Mapping Nuclear Sites with NASA Robot Tech
A UK consortium will develop sensor-equipped advanced robotic platforms for the characterization of radioactive waste and nuclear storage sites.
WAMI Sensor Takes First Flight
A wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) system has been carried in the internal payload bay of a small unmanned aircraft system for the first time.
University Team Unfolds Space Tug Design
A NASA initiative challenged universities to design a solar electric propulsion-powered space tug using autonomous robotic assembly.
Autonomous Crack Detection in Nuclear Power Plants
An advanced algorithm and a powerful machine learning technique to detect cracks based on the changing texture surrounding cracks on steel surfaces.
PolyU Develops Accurate Contactless 3-D Fingerprint Identification System
The minutiae features from the fingerprint ridges — such as ridge ending and bifurcation — are universally considered to be the most reliable of fingerprint details, ensuring that each fingerprint is unique.
Fewer Malfunctions and Lower Costs Thanks to Smarter Maintenance Model
Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a mathematical model for improving the maintenance schedule for trains, rails, aircraft, self-driving cars, robots and nuclear power plants.