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Improving the sleeve bearing in an internal combustion engine by rollerizing the bearing can improve the rpm and horsepower. Timken has designed an engine doing just that and has improved efficiency 3 times that of a conventional engine. (7974 Views,...
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Hybrid cars use a combination of electric and gasoline engine power to get you where you're going. The Chevy Volt uses only electricity. The companion gasoline engine is to dynamically recharge the lithium-ion batteries as the vehicle is in use. ...
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Personal mobility was changed with balancing vehicles, however most personal transports require you to stand. Toyota now introduces the iSwing, a sit-in personal transport that is design to move among people or go on the road. (4892 Views, 4 Comments...
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Water striding robots weigh only 10 grams, use Teflon coated legs to repel water and two servo motors for direction. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing payload carrying aquatic robotics. (4850 Views, 3 Comments)
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How animals change their leg stiffness when running from one surface to another is a key element to creating a robot that can walk or run. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are studying this with actuator experiments. (2950 Views, 0 Comments)
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Using servo motors, magnetic encoders for monitoring and differential force on springs to create torque, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are creating robotic legs that can walk, run, jump; something we don't even think about when we do these...
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Basing a robot off a gecko's feet, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have designed a small robot that can go across the floor, up a wall and continue across the ceiling. Attach a payload, like a camera and you've got a perfect inspection...
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A magnetic levitating device could save newborns. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on very small pumps that could save a life; we'll see how they're doing it in this episode. (2513 Views, 1 Comments)
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on pumps that produce very low turbulence to be used as medical blood pumps. Low turbulence means no clotting inside the pump. Using flow meters and lasers, they get a real time look at how they're...