June 2023 – Page 11 – ENGGtalks®

05 Jun 23

Microscopic Pillars Can Recycle Waste Heat as Energy

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

About US $100 billion each year of energy produced in the United States each year is wasted as heat. Now a new study finds that microscopic pillars built into thermoelectric materials could dramatically boost the conversion of heat into electricity to recycle that energy that would otherwise be lost.Thermoelectric materials…

05 Jun 23

Artificial Leaf Brews Liquid Fuel From Carbon Dioxide

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The idea of artificial photosynthesis is an enticing one: Devices that could soak up sunlight and carbon dioxide, and then, in the presence of water, produce fuels. The designs have evolved from systems in 2011 that split water to produce hydrogen fuels to more recent, more complex ones that aimed…

05 Jun 23

Caltech team achieve wireless energy transfer in space

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The achievement was made by MAPLE (Microwave Array for Power-transfer Low-orbit Experiment), an array of flexible lightweight microwave power transmitters with precise timing control. MAPLE is one of the three experiments carried out by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as part of its Space Solar Power Project (SSPP), an…

03 Jun 23

Machine Learning Turns Up COVID Surprise

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

A hospital visit can be boiled down to an initial ailment and an outcome. But health records tell a different story, full of doctors’ notes and patient histories, vital signs and test results, potentially spanning weeks of a stay. In health studies, all of that data is multiplied by hundreds…

02 Jun 23

EV Startups, Running Out Of Juice

Civil, Structural & Architecture

Imagine an automotive marketplace where one company can build an electric car for $10,000 less than Ford, the company that merely invented the assembly line and mass production. That company is of course Tesla, as Ford CEO Jim Farley humbly acknowledged in his recent, public pas de deux with Elon…

02 Jun 23

Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

Metallurgy & Material Science

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. This week, we’re featuring a special selection of videos from ICRA 2023! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events…

02 Jun 23

Green hydrogen production costs could be lowered with new method

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

By reducing the amount of platinum and iridium used in water electrolysis devices, scientists believe they could bridge one of the largest barriers to green hydrogen production. Hydrogen is a versatile, storable, potentially zero-carbon fuel source, that has been hailed as one of the solutions that will enable countries to reach their net-zero…

02 Jun 23

IoT Sentinels Poised for Cardio Emergencies

Computer & Information Technology

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Heart disease and stroke are the world’s two leading causes of death. And yet both can be agonizingly difficult to detect, leading to their notorious reputation as silent killers. Early diagnosis of heart disease–which includes…

02 Jun 23

Geothermal power could provide boost to deprived UK areas

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Deep geothermal technology uses the heat from naturally occurring water sources deep underground to generate a large amount of usable heat and energy. Carried out in conjunction with backbench Conservative MP Dr Kieran Mullan and experts at the University of Durham’s Energy Institute, the report finds “strong overlaps” between areas…

02 Jun 23

MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Does your robot know where it is right now? Does it? Are you sure? And what about all of its robot friends, do they know where they are too? This is important. So important,…

Month: June 2023

Microscopic Pillars Can Recycle Waste Heat as Energy

Artificial Leaf Brews Liquid Fuel From Carbon Dioxide

Caltech team achieve wireless energy transfer in space

Machine Learning Turns Up COVID Surprise

EV Startups, Running Out Of Juice

Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot

Green hydrogen production costs could be lowered with new method

Geothermal power could provide boost to deprived UK areas

MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law