In some factories, computers called cell controllers provide coordination among individual workstations and computer-controlled machines. In some factories, computers called cell controllers provide ...

Apple has recently secured a patent for a neural interface technology that promises to revolutionize how users interact with ...

When Asst. Teaching Prof. Jonathan Perez de Alderete took the Introduction to Mechanical Engineering course at UMass Lowell as an undergraduate student 13 years ago, he learned how to build a windmill ...

Computer vision has the ability to transform production and quality control and allow for greater efficiency and flexibility. While computer vision is implemented in the manufacturing and automation ...

The last time I saw my friend James was at the townie bar near our old high school. He had been working in roofing for a few years, no longer a rail-thin teenager with lank hippie hair. I had just ...

IN A FACTORY on the Carolinas’ border, Stanley Black & Decker is assembling cordless electric drills. As part-finished drills travel in boxes along a conveyor belt, a robotic arm photographs and scans ...

Every so often a news article appears that shows a disabled person directing movement of a computer cursor or a prosthetic hand with thought alone. But why would anyone choose to have a hole drilled ...

The team reported that their AI copilot solution improved performance by a factor of 3.9 times for the paralyzed participant ...

The company performs specialized parts grinding for global aerospace and defense companies such as Honeywell, Boeing, GE, Rolls Royce and Pratt & Whitney. Anmark LLC, which has specialized in grinding ...

The origin story of software takes us back past punch card computers and Babbage’s Difference Engine to a French weaver called Joseph Marie Jacquard. Jacquard created a way to automate mechanical ...