25/10/2015

Industry 4.0

The Newest Technology from Worldwide

Electricity for the Internet of Things

Thermoelectric materials can convert heat into electrical energy. This is due to the so-called Seebeck effect: If there is a ...

Drones collisions tests

The rapid rise in the number of drones worldwide has been accompanied by increasing reports of near misses with commercial ...

The captured CO2 can be converted into useful organic materials

A new material that can selectively capture carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules and efficiently convert them into useful organic materials has ...

The strongest silver ever beat the world record

A team of scientists has made the strongest silver ever–42 percent stronger than the previous world record. But that’s not ...
agriculture irrigation

New technology responds to the global need to regulate water consumption in agriculture

A team of University of Connecticut researchers engineered a soil moisture sensor that is more cost effective than anything currently ...

Using satellite observations to track oil and gas industry flaring

A new study by San Francisco State University Assistant Professor of Health Education Lara Cushing and colleagues at the University ...

An ultrathin, artificial muscle for haptic robotics

Researchers from KAIST have developed an ultrathin, artificial muscle for soft robotics. The advancement, recently reported in the journal Science Robotics, ...

New formula to recreate different sensations of softness for haptic interfaces

What factors affect how human touch perceives softness, like the feel of pressing your fingertip against a marshmallow, a piece ...

New technology that senses, computes and responds without any centralized processing

Inspired by octopuses, researchers have developed a structure that senses, computes and responds without any centralized processing – creating a ...

Drones will become more reliable with a development platform for image processing components

Whether for the car or the drone: Developing image processing software for embedded systems takes a lot of time and ...

NEXT-GENERATION PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT PREVENTION SYSTEM

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT, President Seung Heon Han) has announced the development of its ...

E-textiles embedded with energy storage devices

The next generation of waterproof smart fabrics will be laser printed and made in minutes. That’s the future imagined by ...

A novel nanofiber filter demonstrates better performance in terms of breathability and filtration efficiency

The Department of Mechanical Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has recently developed an electrostatically charged nanofiber filter ...

A self-diagnosing, self-reporting “smart” bridge

Engineers at the University of New Hampshire have designed a unique living laboratory on a heavily traveled iconic bridge which ...

A new energy map for energetic losses

A new spectroscopic method now makes it possible to measure and visualise the energetic landscape inside solar cells based on ...