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Scientists design solar cell that pushes toward 50 percent efficiency 'Near-zero-power' temperature sensor could make wearables, smart home devices less power hungry Navy Research Lab issued patent for solar microbial fuel cell |
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Cloud-connected UR3 cobot increases production five-fold at Miami startup See how Universal Robots' multitasking UR3 cobot at Creating Revolutions in Miami now deftly handles soldering, drilling, silicone dispensing and light assembly while being controlled and monitored in a cloud-connected system, reducing rejects to near zero while increasing production efficiency almost five-fold. Get the free "Get Started with Cobots" ebook: Request an on-site cobot demo:
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| Army vehicle-mounted laser shoots drones from sky | |
A Stryker combat vehicle equipped with a 5-kW laser and an array of sensors spent several minutes scanning the horizon for a wayward "enemy" drone. After a few attempts to destroy the drone with the laser, the drone fell from the sky, crashing to the ground. Not a bullet was fired, and no sounds were made by the system that accomplished the kill -- an experimental project called the Mobile High-Energy Laser.
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| Electroluminescent paint lights up the design world | |
It's great to have a really bright idea, but if you have one that can be spread around and lit up it's even better. Case in point is LumiLor, a light-emitting coating system from Darkside Scientific that allows anything coated with it and wired up to be illuminated. Besides providing the technology to create amazing "Tron" cars, the product's creators recently scored Airbus as a customer. Simply put, anything you paint with LumiLor can be turned on and off as easily as a light bulb.
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New electrode materials enable super fast-charging batteries Can you imagine fully charging your cell phone in just a few seconds? Researchers in Drexel University's College of Engineering can, and they took a big step toward making it a reality with their recent work unveiling a new battery electrode design in the journal Nature Energy.
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Wings: Hypersonic travel heats up with new materials discovery Researchers at The University of Manchester in the U.K., in collaboration with Central South University (CSU), China, have created a new kind of ceramic coating that could revolutionize hypersonic travel for air, space, and defense purposes. The new carbide coating is vastly superior in resisting temperatures up to 3,000 C, when compared to existing ultra-high temperature ceramics.
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Mike Likes: Unit Conversion Tool Convert popular spring units such as force or retaining ring thrust capacities into metric units with Smalley's engineering tools. Convert units such as mass and weight, angular measurements, velocities, temperatures, pressures and densities, and more. Click here to learn more. You should bookmark this one.
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Injection Molding: 9 tips for designing multipart assemblies Finding creative solutions to multipart assemblies can be tricky, but fortunately there are many different ways to approach product designs that involve multiple components. To keep things cost-effective and efficient, simplify your design, don't make what you can buy off of the shelf, explore all of your manufacturing options, and understand the rules of each part of the process. But like most design challenges, it's not as easy as it sounds.
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High-traction robot goes underground Recent developments in motion control and engineering make it possible to inspect and perform maintenance in compact sewers from the inside. The underground sewer robot is equipped with a swiveling camera and an air-powered milling machine driven by FAULHABER miniature DC motors from MICROMO.
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Great Resources: Smart Guide to Designing for Manufacturability Not all mold makers were created equal. Follow the guide of the most advanced: Xcentric Mold & Engineering. Learn how to incorporate things like draft, threads, hinges, and overmolding by taking advantage of the most advanced injection molding process engine and mold-making system in the industry. Download our Smart Guide to Designing for Manufacturability.
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Updated: New full line catalog of thousands of fasteners Micro Plastics, Inc., a manufacturer of industrial-quality plastic components, has unveiled its latest product catalog containing thousands of fastening solutions for engineers and product designers. In addition to hundreds of new problem-solving products, the catalog features several new complete product lines with improved product and material explanations. Micro Plastics manufactures 10 million fasteners daily, offers over 30,000 items, and maintains an inventory of over 300 million parts. See their 300-page full line catalog #41 for a complete list of plastic fasteners currently available.
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OEMS and Motion Control: Optimized Performance vs. 'Good Enough' OEMs have to balance a lot of competing factors -- cost, precision, safety, performance -- in order to build a superior machine. The motion experts at Kollmorgen discuss in depth the considerations, processes, and challenges machine engineers face when making motion-related decisions. Learn how flexibility, connectivity, modularity, changeover time, and costs can converge to create a total system approach that takes machines from 'good enough' to best in class.
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Proto Labs launches on-demand molded production parts service, opens metrology lab Digital manufacturing company Proto Labs has always been known for its rapid injection molding prototyping services. Now, the company has added a suite of capabilities designed specifically to address the on-demand manufacturing needs of the low-volume, high-mix product segment. And in another company first, they've built a new metrology lab that provides enhanced inspection reporting on end-use production parts.
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