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Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Mechatronics, Additive Fabrication and Medical Devices

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/additivefab.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" border="0" />As engineering research surges forward, providing manufacturers with an increasingly comprehensive toolkit to keep them on the leading edge, many disciplines ...Full Article

All Aboard? Not on This Autonomous Ship

<img style="float: left;" src="http://www.usna.edu/Users/naome/phmiller/SailBot/SailBot2009%20028.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />At SailBot 2013, 16 high school and collegiate teams competed against one another to see which team's sailboat would lead the ...Full Article

Ford Unveils Freeform Tool for Rapid Prototyping

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/fordf3t.png" alt="" width="95" height="52" border="0" />If we look back at some of the growing trends in manufacturing innovation, from additive manufacturing to virtual reality tools like ...Full Article

Broken Bone? 3D Printing Can Help

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/cortex.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="67" border="0" />We’ve already seen 3D printing make its grand entrance in the biomedical field with a polymer-based trachea, skull plate, and 3D-printed ...Full Article

Sandia Labs Finds Energy-Efficient Method for Powering Ships

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-Line0534.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="61" border="0" />Automakers are busy at work developing a hydrogen fuel cell specifically for cars. But researchers at Sandia National Laboratories may have ...Full Article

Nine Teams Break into the Next Round of the DARPA Robotics Challenge

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/VRCATLAS.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="52" border="0" />Last week marked the DARPA Robotics Challenge’s first major test: the Virtual Robotics Challenge (VRC). From June 17-21, 26 teams from ...Full Article

Solar Panels Slim Down

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-20110420-RD-LSC-0880_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Researchers at MIT have recently discovered a way to create solar panels that are thousands of times thinner than previous models, ...Full Article

Materials Upstage the Human Genome Project

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/MGI.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />New materials may drive new technologies both for their manufacture as well as their applications, but births of these so-called “game-changing” ...Full Article

Miniature Robots and More Come to Life with 3D-Printed Microbattery

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/microbattery.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="74" border="0" />When you think of taking something with “a grain of salt,” you might be taking it lightly, but you shouldn’t be ...Full Article