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At the Vincent A. Stabile Laboratory at NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering, a companion robotics laboratory features 10 experimental stations, the Festo System, which gives students “hands-on” training in solving practical problems using robotics for...
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Som Mitra, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and environmental science at New Jersey Institute of Technology, is experimenting with polymers that when dissolved in a solvent become like a paint, and thus can be used as a coating. Solar cells can be inexpensively...
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Developing organic solar cells from polymers is a cheap and potentially simple alternative energy. New Jersey Institute of Technology's Dr. Somenath Mitra has developed solar cells that use a carbon nanotube complex. Nanotubes are 50,000 times smaller...
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MIRTHE is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center headquartered at Princeton University, with partners City College New York, Johns Hopkins University, Rice, Texas A&M, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The center...
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QC lasers are a rapidly evolving class of high-performamce, mid-infrared, semiconductor light sources. They offer considerable wavelength tunability, high output power, high-speed modulation capabilities and may be fabricated in several different materials...
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Hernon Manufacturing has developed military grade sealants for ammunition, as well as a rapid dispensing system to increase the speed of production. (1290 Views, 2 Comments)
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Army testing has shown that Chatten Associates' Head-Aimed Remote Viewer (HARV) more than doubles the mission performance of remote operations. It can be controlled by either a joystick or the operator's head motions. Both of these gimbals are...
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Major Pottratz discusses EOD robots in use today. TALON EOD robots were the first military robots taken into Afghanistan during action against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden in February 2002. They initially accompanied the Special Forces on a Classified...
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Military robots are widely used for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), reconnaissance, communications, hazmat, security, defense and rescue. TALON SWORDS robots can be configured with M240 or M249 machine guns or Barrett .50 caliber rifles for armed reconnaissance...
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AFS Trinity Power has developed two fully operational XH-150 SUV prototypes using off-the-shelf components that make it possible for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to achieve 150 MPG, go 40 miles in all-electric mode, and use gasoline for additional...
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This premium sports sedan's Q DRIVE configuration consists of a small gasoline engine that turns the generator, which charges the lithium ion battery pack, powering the electric motor and turning the rear wheels. This proprietary design allows consumers...
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The Jeep Renegade combines a lithium-ion battery pack with a small-displacement BLUETEC diesel engine, which together help it achieve a fuel economy of more than 110 miles per gallon. (4302 Views, 7 Comments)
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E-Flex is GM's platform for electrically driven vehicles, using multiple propulsion systems that fit into a common chassis. The Saturn Flextreme Concept is one such iteration. (1056 Views, 0 Comments)
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Mercedes featured two new models with ground-breaking drive technologies at the 2008 NAIAS: the S 300 BLUETEC Hybrid, as well as the ML 450 Hybrid with gasoline engine and innovative two-mode hybrid system for purely electrical operation. (1248 Views...
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Stefan Sielaff, Head of Design at Audi, talks about the design decisions that went into their newest sports car, the R8 V12 TDI concept. The 12-cylinder diesel engine generates a huge 500 hp and 1,000 Newton-meters (737.56 lb-ft) of torque. (916 Views...