A tiny silica bead, just 100 nanometers across, sits suspended in a vacuum and vibrates under the grip of laser light. Those ...

Just when engineers thought they had mastered tuning parameters and torque curves, along comes AI-driven motion systems to rewrite the rules. Intelligent design tools and adaptive control algorithms ...

Component manufacturers can minimize energy use by working efficiency tactics into the design and intended operation of mechanical components. Tactics for moving an asynchronous system from IE3 to IE4 ...

What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical signaling that powers the simplest organisms? Researchers at the University ...

Researchers at the University of Birmingham, Oxford, and Bristol have synthesized a lead-free bismuth iodide compound that generates electricity from mechanical motion, offering a safer alternative to ...

Researchers in Ania Bleszynski Jayich’s lab use a mechanical resonator to enable greater entanglement for potentially more powerful sensors. Most people think of diamonds as high-end adornments. Not ...

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that arises without any mechanical contact, driven purely by collective magnetic ...

The propagation of mechanical deformations along the circular network of beads, which are shown as red, blue, green dots. Chemical waves (shown in magenta) travel in the counter-clockwise direction ...