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APRIL 23, 2025

Category descriptions Aerospace : These companies develop and manufacture commercial airplanes, spacecraft, and military aircraft. Biomedical Devices : Firms that manufacture or design systems for medical and health care applications, such as prosthetics, imaging systems, and drug-delivery systems are included in biomedical devices.

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MAY 12, 2025

It had its origins in an interdisciplinary feasibility study that considered whether individuals like Jeremy could tolerate a commercial AR headset. We knew we wanted to design a typing system that would allow users to convey anything they wanted. Our journey to this point was not smooth.

IDEA

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JUNE 26, 2025

And yet commercial applications have been elusive. Now, though, a couple of developments could finally push high-temperature superconductors into commercial use. Among that latter group of startups is Hinetics , formed in 2017 to commercialize research led by Kiruba Haran at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Motoring

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MARCH 5, 2025

Supernova explosions, the catastrophic self-destruction of certain types of worn-out stars, are intimately tied to life on Earth because they are the birthplaces of heavy elements across the universe. Plenty of pundits suggested that the technology could never be commercialized. The first turns the droplet into a pancake-shaped disk.

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JUNE 2, 2025

Naveen Verma s lab at Princeton University is like a museum of all the ways engineers have tried to make AI ultra-efficient by using analog phenomena instead of digital computing. Neither has a commercial future, according to Verma. Its designed into a single processor card that adds 200 trillion operations per second at 8.25

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

For a machine that’s designed to replicate a star, the world’s newest stellarator is a surprisingly humble-looking apparatus. We’re seeing new optimized designs that we weren’t capable of coming up with even 10 years ago. Many magnetic-confinement designs—including the $24.5 its parts hand-labeled in marker.

IDEA

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MAY 13, 2025

Alkaline electrolysis is less capital intensive and more established at larger scales, but it lacks efficiency and its harsh, basic solution complicates system design. Saerbeck, Germany-based Enapter and Austin, Texas-based Agastya offer commercial megawatt-scale AEM electrolyzers used in industry for chemical reactions and heating.

Hydrogen

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APRIL 20, 2025

If you do, the odds are that the chips inside the modem will have been designed by Broadcom Corp., Eight years ago, Samueli, then a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who had been pushing the state of the art of digital broadband communications for more than a decade, joined with his Ph.D.

Atlanta

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APRIL 21, 2025

In 1985, he had established a multidisciplinary research program at the University of California, Los Angeles, to develop chips for digital broadband. to commercialize the technology. But the cable modems required to implement such a digital broadband network were not on the mass market. Enter Henry Samueli. student.

Atlanta

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MAY 29, 2025

When the platform for a prototype floating offshore wind turbine arrived at a dock in Searsport, Maine, on April 11, engineers at the University of Maine were ready to add a tower and a turbine and set it afloat in the Gulf of Maine. But on the very same day, university officials received a letter from the U.S. million grant.

Wind

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MARCH 6, 2025

He is being recognized for his pioneering research and commercialization of broadband communication and networking technologies, and promotion of STEM education. While an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , in the late 1980s, Samueli and one of his Ph.D. campus as a member of the technical staff.

San Jose

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FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had offered a US $1 million prize for the team that could design an autonomous ground vehicle capable of completing an off-road course through sometimes flat, sometimes winding and mountainous desert terrain. The 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge was a spectacular failure.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

AC (alternating current) is whats supplied to your home or what flows through a commercial electrical outletor the destination chargers that you might plug into for a few hours, or overnight. Most AC charging comes via the round J1772 charge portthe J plug thats become near-universal over the past 15 years in EVs and plug-in hybrids.

Charging

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MARCH 30, 2025

And thousands of health care providers are burdened with costly, poorly designed, and insecure EHR systems that have exacerbated clinician burnout, led to hundreds of millions of medical records lost in data breaches, and created new sources of medical errors.

United States

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JULY 24, 2025

According to Lucia, the C -programmable processor is delivering between 10- and 100-fold better efficiency than commercial ultralow-power CPUs on typical embedded systems tasks, like performing a fast Fourier transform on sensor data or doing convolutions for machine learning. It’s like a switch track in a railroad,” says Lucia.

Illinois

EV Central

AUGUST 11, 2025

It will be the first of as many as eight EVs that will be built on what’s called the Ford Universal EV Platform using the Ford Universal Production System. Ford Universal EV platform. Ford Universal EV platform. The Ford Universal EV Platform is designed to dramatically reduce the cost of electric vehicle engineering.

Ford

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JULY 30, 2025

When it comes to learning digital system design, hobbyists and students have a lot of options, whether it’s tinkering with field-programmable gate arrays or working up chip submission for a Tiny Tapeout run. But similar tools for analog design have been harder to come by.

Design

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MAY 2, 2025

Featuring lightweight design with extreme-environment endurance, it conquers rugged mountain trails, muddy wetlands and debris-strewn ruinspioneering embodied intelligence in power inspection, emergency response, logistics, and scientific exploration. And heres a bit more on how it was done, mostly with arms from Universal Robots. [

Environment

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AUGUST 11, 2025

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University led by Rongming Chu , a professor of electrical engineering, have designed a gallium nitride chip capable of operating at 800°C —hot enough to melt table salt. But gallium nitride, which possesses unique features that make it more functional at high temperatures, has now surpassed SiC.

Pennsylvania

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JUNE 10, 2025

Their creativity has been made possible through the affordability of commercial drones, spare parts, 3D printers, and the availability of open-source software and hardware. The word “engineer” was coined in the Middle Ages to describe “a designer and constructor of fortifications and weapons.”

Boston

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JUNE 30, 2025

While working as an architect and designer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1971 from Auburn University , in Alabama. By contrast, digital designs used racks of components well beyond commercial feasibility. following a long illness.

San Antonio

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JULY 11, 2025

Reachy Mini is an expressive, open-source robot designed for human-robot interaction, creative coding, and AI experimentation. As a result, progress in algorithm and dataset design is often guided by intuition rather than evidence, hampering progress. University of Tokyo ] Thanks, Kento! Our work aims to change that.

San Francisco

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AUGUST 6, 2025

Nigeria’s big telecom operators continue to build long-distance, high-capacity fiber-optic networks from the cables to the important commercial nodes in the cities. Nigerians trust each other so little that a university guesthouse I stayed in had its name printed on the wall-mounted air conditioner units to discourage theft.

Nigeria

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JULY 25, 2025

The first-generation networks that launched in the late 1970s and early 1980s were largely country-specific, designed for making only domestic or regional calls. The medal is designed to commemorate contributions to wireless communications technologies with a global impact. “It Basic text messages became possible.

Connect

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JULY 22, 2021

Deutsche Aircraft, the new purpose-driven German aircraft Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) ( earlier post ), and Universal Hydrogen Co. earlier post ) announced a technical collaboration to complete a design study to incorporate Universal Hydrogen’s modular capsule technology into the Dornier 328 program. Earlier post.)

Hydrogen

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AUGUST 5, 2025

Department of Energy to designate, within 90 days, at least one site on DOE-controlled land for the deployment of an advanced nuclear reactor—a nearly impossible deadline that’s coming up August 21. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). One particularly eager provision instructs the U.S.

Tennessee

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2021

In a perspective piece in the journal Joule , researchers at the University of Michigan lay out the main questions facing lithium-metal, solid-state batteries. However, several challenges remain on the path to commercializing the technology, especially for EVs. —Jeff Sakamoto, co-corresponding author. —Wang et al.

Michigan

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Universal Hydrogen closed a $62-million new funding round; the oversubscribed round was completed less than six months after the company’s Series A ( earlier post ), bringing total raised to $85 million. Full-scale prototype of Universal Hydrogen's gaseous hydrogen module, with one capsule removed.

Hydrogen

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JULY 30, 2021

The Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Volta Energy Technologies join existing investors Anzu Partners and the University of Minnesota. Niron will begin sampling in limited quantity to selected partners, who can collaborate closely with Niron to design the magnets into suitable high-volume applications. million in new financing. Background.

Minnesota

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

Michigan State University officially has deployed its full-size autonomous electric bus ( earlier post ) and is accepting passengers on the 2.5-mile mile campus route. The autonomous bus is one of the largest of its kind to be deployed on US roadways to date. from the MSU Commuter Lot (#89) at the intersection of Farm Lane and Mt.

Michigan

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Westinghouse Electric Company has signed a service agreement with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to bring its eVinci microreactor closer to commercialization. The agreement initiates a Vendor Design Review (VDR) which is a pre-licensing technical assessment of the eVinci small modular reactor design.

Commercial

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Universal Hydrogen was granted a special airworthiness certificate in the experimental category by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to proceed with the first flight of its hydrogen-powered regional aircraft. —Paul Eremenko, co-founder and CEO of Universal Hydrogen Air New Zealand.

New Zealand

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MARCH 15, 2020

In an open-access review paper published in Nature Nanotechnology , researchers at the University of California San Diego offer a research roadmap that includes four challenges that need to be addressed in order to advance all-solid-state batteries to commercialization. Batteries designed for recyclability.

San Diego

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Hyundai Motor Company won its first Luminary honor at Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2022 with its Trailer Drone fully autonomous hydrogen mobility concept. Overall, Hyundai won three awards, including Luminary, Best of the Best and Winner honors, at the annual event hosted by Germany’s Design Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen. Earlier post.)

Concept

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JULY 8, 2021

Having grown out of a partnership between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the University of Ulm, H2FLY has demonstrated innovative hydrogen fuel cell technology in aviation. The project is designed to complement the German Federal Government’s Aviation Strategy. Martin Nüßeler, CTO at Deutsche Aircraft and Prof.

Hydrogen

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MARCH 19, 2021

Achates Power was awarded a $5-million cooperative agreement from the US Department of Energy in 2020 for a new two-cylinder prototype demonstration and concept design of a next-generation medium-duty commercial vehicle opposed-piston engine. Demonstration vehicles will be on the road in 2021 in a commercial fleet application.

Commercial

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2023

Much of the focus is on how to effectively decarbonise commercial and working vehicles including vans, buses, HGVs, and zero-emission emergency vehicles. Project partners include: University of Bristol, Customer Interconnect Ltd, API Capacitors Ltd. Project partners include: University of Bath, Equipmake, Aeristech.

Commercial