A private space exploration company recently launched a rocket that was carrying a giant ball that could interfere with the work of other astronomers. Satellite Humanity Star, (image via Rocket Lab) There is a joke that refers to buying real est...
A few scientists and engineers from UC Berkeley are building the next generation of robots with some biomimicry. A prototype of DASH (black box up with the legs), (Image via U.C. Berkeley) Hitting a wall appears to be something that not just ru...
The medical field has seen considerable changes in the last twenty years. But, with the numerous breakthrough in technology, healthcare has reached new heights. Last year, one way technology helped medicine is through the Augmented Reality which was ...
UPS collaborated with Workhorse to put some electric truck on the roads, as part of UPS’ eco-friendly goal. (UPS electric car via UPS) Recently, UPS, a leading company in logistics, announced that it will shortly put fifty trucks electrically po...
With all the data, can all failures be predicted? Even with all the data, is it worth the trouble? When all this data is analyzed and processed, a set of potential points of failure can be predicted. In a loose sense, this is what Condition Mon...
Elon Musk’ Space X executed a successful test flight of its Falcon Heavy with a special payload inside. Falcon Heavy launch. (via Space X) Space X, the space exploration company founded by Elon Musk succeeded in launching its Falcon Heavy rocket...
www.youtube.com/watchAt the Winter Olympic games, Intel presented a history-making light show using drones. Intel's Shooting Stars in snowboarder formation (via Olympic games) South Korea was determined to make the 2018 Winter Olympic Games ...
(Image credit: Pixabay) AI has been developed for a wide range of applications- assisting doctors in treating cancer, is used to prevent fraud and financial crimes, and can be found in nearly every autonomous vehicle. We can now add film and mu...
GM will put a few of its self-driving cars on the roads as soon as the law makers in Washington approve of a few changes. (All images via GM) At a time when the world is barely adhering to the concept of renewable and sustainable energy, the au...
Smog on a typical day in Xi’an, located in Shaanxi province. (Image credit: Shwangtianyuan via Wikipedia) It’s no secret China has cities shrouded in smog, so much so that pollution from mainland China has forced western cities in Japan to issu...
Boeings new aircraft vehicle has the ability to carry heavy loads up to 500 pounds. This is nothing like the drone you got for Christmas (Photo from Boeing) In the future, expect to see more autonomous vehicles, and we’re not just talking about...
The new telematics will allow autonomous vehicles to communicate and share data with each other. (Image credit: LG Electronics) LG knows that it would be beneficial for self-driving vehicles to communicate with one another- traffic, road condit...
A Japanese company made a car with the transformers toys in mind. The car might be road ready by March 2018 (Images/video via Four Link Systems) Owning a car comes at a few costs: from car payments, insurance payments, to the stress of sitting i...
The Karlovy Lazne Music Club in Prague employed a repurposed KUKA Automotive Industrial robot as a DJ. (Image credit: KUKA) They were designed and created for industrial automation, a tool to advance the human race to an elevated status beyond m...
Engineers embedded specialized nanoparticles into the leaves of a plant to induce dim light. (Image credit: MIT) MIT engineers have successfully embedded unique nanoparticles into the leaves of a watercress plant to induce a dim light that last...
Airbus recently moved the aircraft from the company’s headquarters to a new home in Pendleton, OR. This (apparently) is the future of taxis (Photo from Airbus) If you’ve ever thought those flying taxis from The Fifth Element were cool, you may b...
I have been in industrial maintenance for 35 years, working on electrical controls for over 30 years. I design, build and repair controls, build automation machinery, perform OSHA updates, retrofit existing machinery, design and build controls for ma...
Aeroscraft is updating the airship and hopes to bring major changes to freight shipping. The future of airships or a UFO? (Photo from Aeroscraft) You know what people never get nostalgic for? Blimps. At one point they were seen as the future of ...
By finely tuning the space between a single layer of nanoparticles, researchers developed a filter that changes from a mirror to a window. (Image credit Imperial College London) Researchers at Imperial College London have developed a unique fil...
John Deere will tap into AI for more efficient crop sprayers. (Image credit John Deere) AI isn’t limited to robots, computer science or education as it’s being implemented in nearly all facets of industry, including farming. Of course, its appl...
(Image credit Pexels) It’s not unheard of for Li-ion batteries to catch fire or explode when damaged or poorly designed, just look at Samsung’s recent debacle with the Galaxy Note 7, and you can see why. The problem with most catastrophic failu...
MIT’s RFly system uses autonomous drones to relay signals emitted by a standard RFID reader to track inventory. (Image credit MIT) Implementing RFID in supply chain management was supposed to make tracking inventory a whole lot easier; however...
UMD engineers develop first biocompatible ion current battery. (Image credit UMD) UMD engineers have designed a new type of ion current battery that’s completely biocompatible. The new battery produces the same ion-based energy used by humans a...
A team of researchers at Berkeley Labs have discovered a seaweed derivative can stabilize lithium-sulfur batteries. The seaweed derivative acts a binding agent for the sulfur (Photo via Berkley Lab) Our search for the most reliable battery never...
Ladder diagram is the most used PLC programming language. Main ladder logic elements work like electromechanical circuits, in other words they are virtual relays.A PLC exchanges information with the external environment through input and output termi...
