The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a showcase for how very large, very expensive robots could potentially be useful in disaster recovery and high-risk environments. Humanoids are particularly capable in some very specific situations, but the rest of the time ...
The team’s concept could lead to more broad nanofabrication platforms, and even be used to create complex optical nanostructures for biomedical, computation, MEMS/NEMS, and sensing devices. Discuss this story, and other 3D printing topics, at ...
A new class of flat, ultrathin optical devices on a chip was developed by scientists from the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory and Harvard University. The new design uses a microscopic electromechanical device (MEMS ...
To support more sophisticated and compact tablets, phones, watches and other wearables, the shrinking of semiconductor dies and packaged devices is proving as critical to microelectronics development as the relentless miniaturization defined by Moore’s Law.
Today, its lasers are used in 3D printing, for guidance systems in the aerospace and defense industries, and in microfabrication, where short laser pulses can vaporize materials or make holes with precision, a practice used by makers of semiconductors and ...
