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Since robots are afforded more and more capabilities these days, a team of researchers from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) wanted to make sure they could handle common tasks delicately, not in their typical harsh and clunky…

Amphenol Industrial Products Group has enhanced its standard shell plating from standard cadmium to gray zinc over electroless nickel (Gray ZnNi) to be used for use in the harshest environments. Initially designed for use in marine…

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the TPS25810 USB Type-C downstream-facing port (DFP) controller from Texas Instruments (TI). The highly integrated TPS25810 controller provides all the functionality necessary to support a USB Type-C DFP…

The DMHC10H170SFJ introduced by Diodes Incorporated is a 100V full H-bridge incorporating dual N-channel and P-channel MOSFETs into a tiny DFN5045 package (5mm x 4.5mm). This configuration reduces component count and board space, which is…

MaxLite releases its third generation of Small LED Flood Lights as energy-saving replacements for quartz halogen and metal halide fixtures in commercial and residential outdoor lighting applications. Listed by DesignLights Consortium…

If you thought selfies were just a fad for humans, you were wrong. Mars' Curiosity Rover, which has been exploring the Red Planet since 2012, just sent back its latest selfie. The photo combines 57 images taken mid-January to display…

Researchers from the University of St Andrews and Harvard Medical School have developed a new fiber-optic technology capable of delivering light deeper into human tissue than ever before. The new method could help heal wounds faster and…

New York Times journalist and developer, Jeremy Merrill, lives under New York's LaGuardia Airport and was inspired to learn more about the planes flying overhead when he created this Raspberry Pi gadget. In an effort to determine where…

If you're in the London area this summer, do not be surprised to see driverless pods scurrying around the streets. Three British companies, Westfield Sportscars, Heathrow Enterprises and Oxbotica, are leveraging British engineering and…

If you thought NASA would leave the assembly of the James Webb Space Telescope to mere humans, you were wrong. NASA recruited the help of a giant robotic arm at its Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to piece together segments of…

With renewable energy sources on the rise, companies are constantly looking for ways create a consistent flow of energy since, typically, renewables rely on nature to work. A start-up called Orison has proposed a method for storing…

Mitsubishi Electric has been on a mission to develop new antennas that offer new functions and superior performance. Currently, the company is investigating conductive and transmutative liquids as new materials for antennas. One such highly…

Will drone races ever be as popular as NASCAR races? It's quite possible now that there's an official Drone Racing League commencing its first season next month. This isn't the first we've heard of the Drone Racing League either.…

Researchers are developing all kinds of sock technology these days. If you remember, just a while back, a team of researchers created a pair of socks that generated energy from urine. Now researchers are working with socks again. This…

While digital imagery has been especially helpful in microscopy, sometimes the images result in blurry and pixilated images. A team of researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has created a new technique that greatly…