Modular, Full-Body Exoskeleton MAX
21.11.2016 | SuitX | www.suitx.com
The MAX system is designed to provide a flexible exoskeleton solution that can be adapted for a variety of different workplace tasks.
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Glow-in-the-dark dye could fuel liquid-based batteries
18.11.2016 | University at Buffalo | www.buffalo.edu
Scientists at the University at Buffalo identified a fluorescent dye called BODIPY as an ideal material for stockpiling energy in rechargeable, liquid-based batteries that could one day power cars…
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Enabling Wireless Virtual Reality
16.11.2016 | MIT CSAIL | www.csail.mit.edu
One of the limits of today’s virtual reality (VR) headsets is that they have to be tethered to computers in order to process data well enough to deliver high-resolution visuals. But wearing an HDMI…
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First supercapacitor that can be charged by human body heat
14.11.2016 | Texas A&M University | engineering.tamu.edu
Engineers from Texas A&M University have developed a new concept of electrical energy storage: Thermally Chargeable Solid-state Supercapacitor.
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A step toward biodegradable plastics
11.11.2016 | MIT News | news.mit.edu
MIT chemists have determined the structure of a bacterial enzyme that can produce biodegradable plastics, an advance that could help chemical engineers tweak the enzyme to make it even more…
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Semiconductor-free Microelectronics Are Now Possible, Thanks to Metamaterials
09.11.2016 | University of California San Diego | ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have fabricated the first semiconductor-free, optically-controlled microelectronic device. Using metamaterials, engineers were able to build a…
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GM starts producing 200-mile electric Chevrolet Bolt
07.11.2016 | Phys.org | www.phys.org
General Motors has started making Bolt hatchbacks on a slow assembly line at a factory in Orion Township, Michigan, north of Detroit.
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A new twist on airplane wing design
04.11.2016 | MIT | news.mit.edu
The new wing architecture, which could greatly simplify the manufacturing process and reduce fuel consumption by improving the wing’s aerodynamics, as well as improving its agility, is based on a…
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NASA Completes Webb Telescope Center of Curvature Pre-test
02.11.2016 | NASA | www.nasa.gov
Engineers and technicians working on the James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed the first important optical measurement of Webb’s fully assembled primary mirror, called a Center of…
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HERL's MEBot Competes in Cybathlon
31.10.2016 | University of Pittsburgh | www.herl.pitt.edu
On October 2016, HERL's MEBot robotic wheelchair took part in the first Cybathlon for Robot-Assisted Parathletes in Geneva, Switzerland.
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New Method Increases Energy Density in Lithium Batteries
29.10.2016 | Columbia Engineering | engineering.columbia.edu
Yuan Yang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a new method to increase the energy density of lithium (Li-ion) batteries.
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Fluorescent holography - Upending the world of biological imaging
26.10.2016 | Colorado State University | source.colostate.edu
Optical microscopy experts at Colorado State University are once again pushing the envelope of biological imaging. They have designed and built a fluorescence-detection microscope that combines three…
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3D-printed heart-on-a-chip with integrated sensors
24.10.2016 | Harvard University | www.seas.harvard.edu
Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a…
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UVA physicists paving way for wider use of new solar cell materials
22.10.2016 | University of Virginia | news.virginia.edu
Despite the potential for powering the world with energy from the sun – the most abundant source of renewable energy – only about 1 percent of the world’s energy production currently comes through…
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Making new functional polymers for 3-D printers
19.10.2016 | Phys.org | www.phys.org
Chemical engineers at the University of Melbourne have found a way to 3-D print smart polymers (or plastics) that can perform a function, in a way that is cheaper, cleaner and more accessible than…
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