Robots and prosthetics are becoming ever more human-like, but the electronic skins designed to enhance their usefulness do not yet have the full range of tactile senses that we have.
Robots get sensitive with hairy skin
2017 J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award Recipient Announced
ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, is pleased to announce that Dr. Gunnar Nils Eriksson, scientist, GTT Technologies, Germany, is the 2017 J. Willard Gibbs Phase Equilibria Award recipient.
How SpaceX Engineers New Designs
Elon Musk says SpaceX is exploring methods for engineers to accelerate their workflow by designing more directly in 3D.
One Minute Mentor: Distortion in Plasma-Carburized Stainless Steel
The graph shows the XRD patterns of low-temperature plasma-nitrided (PN), plasma-carburized (PC), and untreated AISI 316 stainless steel samples.
New electrochemistry ability enables Cypher ES AFM to study deposition, corrosion
Oxford Instruments, Santa Barbara, Calif., announces that electrochemistry capabilities are now available on the Cypher ES atomic force microscope, the highest resolution, fast scanning AFM with environmental control.