Category: Engineering

An Austin-based robotics firm has accelerated the development of giant robots to automate industrial tasks beyond the limits of the human form. Apptronik has created Elevate Robotics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, to reshape the future of…

Two San Diego State University aerospace engineering researchers developed a new model in computational mathematics that could have widespread implications for hypersonic military aircraft.

The model predicts how fuel droplets and gas…

Solid-state battery developer QuantumScape announced today it has integrated a new manufacturing process called “Cobra” into its production line. 

The company has reported that the system increases the speed of a critical heat-treatment…

A team at the University of Tartu’s Institute of Computer Science has shown that obsolete mobile phones can be wired together to do the sort of heavy data processing normally reserved for expensive server farms while keeping thousands of…

Washington-based company New Frontier Aerospace (NFA) has completed an important round of fire tests on its Mjölnir rocket engine, marking a major step forward in the race to redefine propulsion for next-generation hypersonic vehicles and space…

Hard drives made from a novel molecule developed by researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Manchester could revolutionize data storage shortly. A postage-sized drive that works at temperatures seen on the…

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a new type of amplifier that reduces power consumption by 90% compared to current models, a step that could help develop larger and more stable quantum computers. 

The…

While fossil trackways are widely used to estimate the speed of extinct animals, especially dinosaurs, new research suggests these calculations might be inaccurate. It turns out dinosaurs were much slower.

It was long believed that dinosaurs…

A San Diego-based firm has achieved a breakthrough in the development and testing of a new type of nuclear fuel cladding technology.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) confirmed that it reached another significant milestone in…

A US company specializing in advanced water and resource recovery has announced the launch of the world’s first fully integrated lithium facility that extracts the metal from oilfield produced water.

Set in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale…