7 August 2023 Scottish researchers have produced a pressure-sensitive mat containing a graphene-based material that generates power when humans walk on it. They suggest that the low-cost, energy-efficient… Read More
31 March 2023 The Chinese-American robotics developer Flexiv has announced a “revolutionary” robotic gripper that can lift almost anything that fits in its grasp, including oddly shaped items… Read More
18 October 2022 An Australian start-up company is developing a new generation of smaller, lighter and more efficient electric motors based on a new magnetic material called Aeroperm… Read More
9 August 2022 The German engineering plastics specialist igus has developed a plastic ball bearing that unusually combines two materials to make it wear-resistant and dimensionally stable and… Read More
29 March 2022 Two US companies – the material-handling automation specialist Vecna Robotics and the pedestrian lift truck manufacturer Big Joe Forklifts – have joined forces to develop… Read More
12 October 2021 Igus has developed a maintenance-free plastic material for food industry plain bearing applications, that is designed to withstand friction and high temperatures, and to dissipate… Read More
4 January 2021 Researchers at Toshiba in Japan have developed a new magnetic material that, they say, will deliver major improvements in electric motor efficiencies at low cost… Read More
22 December 2020 The German engineering plastics specialist igus claims to be the first company that can integrate sensors into plastics components to help predict the need for… Read More
28 September 2020 US scientists have created a composite material that, they say, can boost the electrical current capacity of copper wires by 14%, while improving their mechanical… Read More
5 February 2018 Two Canadian researchers have developed a new method of producing magnets for electric motors which, they claim, could lead to significant cost reductions, as well… Read More
