NASA's Ground Test Unit only looks like a golf course’s lawn mower; this is how NASA astronauts will practice driving the next lunar rover.

We’re also looking at test and measurement solutions, piezoelectric actuators, and the energy efficiency of robots. Other new products include control and signal cables as well as cell formation and ...

Dockworkers all along the Gulf and East Coast are striking over wages and fears of automation taking over their jobs. Most manufacturers didn’t take a break during the COVID-19 lockdown. They used ...

The Tire Lector Array (TLA) from SICK is a sophisticated tire code-reading system designed to identify green and finished tires reliably, regardless of size, position, and alignment of barcodes. This ...

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With the automotive industry in a state of flux, one way to hedge against uncertainty and change is to lean on outsourced contract manufacturing to provide components, modules, or to assemble entire ...

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins chauffeurs Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison "Jack" Schmitt in the Lunar Test Unit at Johnson Space Center. Engineers have consistently predicted that cars would shift from ...

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Spencer Chin is a Senior Editor for Design News, covering the electronics beat, which includes semiconductors, components, power, embedded systems, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual ...

Computerized numerical control (CNC) machining is a preferred manufacturing method for prototyping and producing specific automobile parts. Nowadays, many automotive supply chains rely on CNC ...

While battery-electric vehicles are getting attention as carmakers and nations announce plans for a combustion-free future, combustion-powered vehicles with an electric assist will represent the ...

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