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Cat 14M3 'Most Technologically Advanced' Motor Grader for Construction
Caterpillar plans to showcase 40 machines at ConExpo-Con/Agg 2017 in March, one being its new 14M3 motor grader that features a larger engine, increased power to ground,...
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SAE Level 3 "Hand Off" Is Challenging AI Researchers
When Gill Pratt, the CEO of Toyota Research Institute, the carmaker’s artificial intelligence (AI) lab in Menlo Park, CA, mounted the CES 2017 stage earlier this month, he delivered a...
News Automotive
Simulation Squeezes More Range out of Formula-E Racers
"Range anxiety" is not just affecting electric vehicle drivers on the road—it is also a significant hurdle for Formula E teams on the track. Highly accurate energy consumption...
News Electronics & Computers
CNH Advances Driverless Tech for Tractors
Precision farming and machine automation already play a significant role in agriculture. CNH Industrial’s Innovation Group is focusing on key times of the year when farm work still requires long...
INSIDER Defense
Professor Simulates Bomb Blasts to Study How Things Break Apart
How much force does it take to shatter a Humvee, a soldier’s body armor, or a submarine?
INSIDER Unmanned Systems
High-Speed, Autonomous Surface Patrol Capability Demonstrated
After a year of internal research and development, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, recently conducted a large, at-sea demonstration...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Army Researchers Demonstrate 3-D Printed Drones
Soldiers witnessed the innovation of Army researchers recently during flight testing of 3-D printed unmanned aircraft systems that were created on-demand for specific missions.
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NAIAS 2017: Lightweight Door Module Aims to Trim Vehicle Weight
A new ultralight door architecture nets a 42.5% weight savings compared to a current production door—and that’s enough to put this lightweight concept in an enviable position.
News Transportation
NAIAS 2017: I.D. Buzz Could Be VW's Microbus of the Future
It’s a VW Microbus for future generations, an electric van capable of fully autonomous driving. But at this point, it’s only a concept.
Articles Software
CES 2017: Car as Close Companion
Let’s face it. For you (and everybody else), it’s all about you, you—and by the way, you. You know, me, the big "I."
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NAIAS 2017: Yanfeng Shows Concept Interior for Autonomous Driving
The driver's experience of being in a vehicle—but not driving—means opportunities for working or relaxing as envisioned in a vehicle cabin concept from the world's...
News Propulsion
NAIAS 2017: Power and More Underscore 2018 Toyota Camry
The best-selling car in America for the past 15 years breaks its mold with a new platform and powertrains. Things have changed with Toyota’s 8th-generation flagship sedan and the...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
150V Power MOSFETs
Targeting high-efficiency designs and applications, Infineon Technologies’ (Munich, Germany) OptiMOS 5 150V portfolio product family further expands the OptiMOS 5 generation of power MOSFETs. The new product family is...
News Propulsion
Electric Drive Module
GKN Driveline’s (Auburn Hills, MI) complete electric-drive system for plug-in hybrid vehicles will help automakers more easily incorporate eDrive systems into their vehicle lines and eliminates the integration of...
News Propulsion
NAIAS 2017: The 2018 Lexus LS Gets Twin-Turbo V6, 10-Speed and Shiatsu
The flagship sedan that inaugurated the Lexus brand in 1990 ups the power and luxury quotient for its fifth-generation iteration with an all-new turbocharged V6, a...
Articles Automotive
NAIAS 2017: Stinger Gives Kia a Fast, Nimble Sedan
Kia’s racy GT concept sports sedan shown at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show becomes production reality with the 2018 Stinger.
News Software
Waymo’s End Game: Beat Conti, Delphi and Valeo in Self-Driving Tech?
What does Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving car project and now a standalone company, want to be when it grows up?
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
CES 2017: Schaeffler Surprises CES with 'Bio-Hybrid' Minicar for Urban Use
By 2050, urban populations worldwide will have risen by 2.5 billion, according to the United Nations. But “infrastructure expansion is not keeping pace with...
News Software
Combating Motion Sickness in Autonomous-Driving Simulators
Motion sickness has become a very real issue for engineers developing and testing autonomous vehicle technologies. Automotive simulators can reach such high levels of realism that...
Road Ready Propulsion
2018 Ford F-150 Diesel Aims to Beat 30 Mpg
With two key 30-mpg enablers for F-150 already in production—an aluminum body structure and 10-speed transmission—Ford Truck Engineering now brings the final piece of the technology puzzle: a...
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F-150 and Mustang Hybrids Part of Ford's Global Electrified Vehicles Plan
Ford Motor Co. plans to introduce hybrid versions of its iconic F-150 and Mustang in the U.S. by 2020, the company announced at a press conference at its Flat Rock,...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
CES 2017: Honda Partners with VocalZoom to Advance Speech-Recognition Technology
Speech recognition as a distraction-mitigation solution for automotive features has emerged as the classic love-hate situation for new technology....
News Automotive
Glowing Aerodynamic Add-Ons Could Boost Big-Rig Fuel Economy by 7-10%
“Headlight white” and “stoplight red,” the characteristic colors of the highway at night, could soon get a companion: “plasma purple”—that is, if a new...
Product Briefs Manned Systems
Operator Chair System
The Merritt Synergy system from J.R. Merritt Controls, Inc. (Stratford, CT) is engineered for continuous use in a variety of machine and industrial cabin applications from cab-operated cranes and mining dredges to drills...
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Fully Embedded CFD
Mentor Graphics Corp. (Wilsonville, OR) offers the only fully embedded computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution for Solid Edge software, a mainstream computer-aided design (CAD) solution developed by Siemens’ product...
INSIDER Aerospace
Computer Model More Accurately Predicts Flight Delays
Researchers at Binghamton University have devised a new computer model that can more accurately predict delays faster than anything currently in use. The multilevel input layer...
INSIDER Aerospace
Cockpit Display Shows Precise Locations of Sonic Booms
NASA pilots flying supersonic aircraft now have a display that tells them exactly where sonic booms are hitting the ground. The display provided NASA research pilots the ability to...
News Aerospace
Elastomers and Thermoplastics Portfolio
Qultimax proprietary elastomers and thermoplastics portfolio developed by Minnesota Rubber and Plastics (Minneapolis, MN) is suitable for application in custom-molded parts greater than 3 in (76 mm) in...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
CES 2017: Faraday Future Shows Its First Vehicle—the FF 91
After teasing the media and consumers with a racecar concept at the 2016 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, and then with a series of detailed close-up images and...
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How Airbus is Using w-DED to 3D Print Larger Titanium Airplane Parts
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Microvision Aquires Luminar, Plans Relationship Restoration, Multi-industry Push
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A Next Generation Helmet System for Navy Pilots
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New Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Agreements Expand Missile Defense Production
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CES 2026: Bosch is Ready to Bring AI to Your (Likely ICE-powered) Vehicle
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Semiconductors & ICs
Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive...
Unmanned Systems
Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design...
Electronics & Computers
Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded...
Power
Battery Abuse Testing: Pushing to Failure
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