Product Development

The Honda Koraidon motorcycle.
Automation
It Took 40 Engineers to Build Honda's Pokémon Koraidon Motorcycle
Its hands, legs, neck, and facial movements change as the motorcycle increases speed.
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Ep320
Video
World’s Largest Tire Manufacturer Turns to Recycled Materials
The tires include repurposed ropes and nets combined with recycled engine oil.
March 18, 2025
A display shows how the dual-mode electric S6DM sport utility vehicle from Chinese automaker BYD can be plugged into a charging station to recharge its onboard batteries, at the North American International Auto Show on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in Detroit.
Product Development
China's BYD Launches EV Charging System, Says It Works Nearly As Fast As A Fill Up
It plans to build more than 4,000 of the new charging stations across China.
March 18, 2025
People listen to Griffin Gowdy, a PhD student at Columbia University, speak during a 'Stand Up for Science' rally in New York, Friday, March 7, 2025.
Product Development
Young Scientists See Career Pathways Vanish as Schools Adapt to Federal Funding Cuts
Universities are cutting back offers of admission for graduate students due to the uncertainty.
March 17, 2025
Cobots
Product Development
How to Integrate Cobots Without Cutting Corners on Safety
A cobot market expansion looks to normalize the idea of industrial robots working alongside humans.
March 14, 2025
Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system.
Product Development
Inside the 'Nuclear Batteries' That Power Faraway Spacecraft
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators were developed in the 1960s based on 200-year-old scientific principles.
March 14, 2025
Top Headlines
XRP Robotics Kits.
DigiKey Partners with SparkFun to Equip Next Generation of Engineers with XRP Robotics Kits
March 18, 2025
This image made from video by NASA shows astronauts greeting each other after a SpaceX capsule docked with the International Space Station, Sunday, March 16, 2025. Top row from left: Nick Hague, Alexander Gorbunov, Suni Williams, Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Bottom row from left: Butch Wilmore, Takuya Onishi, Anne McClain, Kirill Peskov, Nichole Ayers and Don Pettit.
NASA's Stuck Astronauts Welcome Their Newly Arrived Replacements To the Space Station
March 17, 2025
Studying a drone, addressing safety in autonomous aviation.
NASA Taps UTA To Shape Future Of Autonomous Aviation
March 14, 2025
From within the Mare Crisium impact basin, the SwRI-led Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) is making the first geophysical measurements representative of the bulk of the Moon. Most of the Apollo missions landed in the region of linked maria to the west (left image), whose crust was later shown to be compositionally distinct (right image) as exemplified by the concentration of the element thorium. Mare Crisium provides a smooth landing site on the near side of the Moon outside of this anomalous region.
SwRI-led Sounder Instrument Deploys Across Lunar Surface
March 14, 2025
Ep317
Customized Bentleys Now Come in 46 Billion Different Configurations
March 13, 2025
Dolphin Labs logo and the xNode prototype.
Q&A: Dolphin Labs Captures Energy One Wave at a Time
March 13, 2025
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of four aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft scrubbed prior to liftoff for a mission to the International Space Station from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
SpaceX Delays Flight to Replace Stuck Astronauts After Launch Pad Problem
March 13, 2025
Tesla vehicles are displayed at the AutoMobility LA Auto Show, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, in Los Angeles.
Trump is Buying a Tesla. Here Are Some Harsh Things He's Said About EVs
March 12, 2025
A 2003 Ford Model T-100, a replica of a 1914 Model T and part of Ford Motor Co.’s Heritage Fleet, is on display Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Dearborn, Mich.
Ford Shows Off Treasure Trove of Rarely Seen Vehicles
March 12, 2025
This image provided by Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the broken mast from the Western Reserve, a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1892 off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Explorers Discover Wreckage of Cargo Ship That Sank in Lake Superior Storm More Than 130 Years Ago
March 12, 2025
Ep316
VW Bringing Back Physical Buttons in All Models
March 12, 2025
Ep315
Lawsuit Targets Ford Mustang Mach-E’s Unconventional Doors
March 11, 2025
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February 26, 2025
HuMod BioTech lab and Tormach printer.
Product Development
How HuMod BioTech and Tormach Are Advancing Prosthetic Technology
Improving efficiency, cost-effectiveness and engineering progress in the development of prosthetic solutions.
March 10, 2025
This photo provided by Intuitive Machines on Friday, March 7, 2025, shows the Athena, a private lunar lander, after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole.
Product Development
Private Lunar Lander Declared Dead After Landing Sideways in a Crater
The lander missed its mark by more than 800 feet.
March 10, 2025
Two amplifiers side by side.
Product Development
DARPA Accelerating Critical Component Manufacturing From Years to Weeks
DARPA's startup support enables high-production amplifier production breakthrough.
March 10, 2025
In this photo released by Nissan Motor Corp., its driverless vehicle, center, drives along a street in Yokohama, near Tokyo in February 2025.
Product Development
Japan's Nissan Tests Driverless Vehicles in City Streets Filled With Cars and People
The driverless technology uses uses 14 cameras, nine radars and six LiDar sensors.
March 10, 2025
Ep313
Video
Aptera Tests Exotic Solar Car in Mojave Desert
The car promises more than 10,000 miles of solar-powered driving annually.
March 7, 2025
Quick Jet Machine5
Product Development
Machine Maker Showcases 250-Pound Aluminum Hand at Taiwan Trade Show
WATCH: Inspired by a 3D scan of the CEO giving a "thumbs up."
March 7, 2025
Telo Trucks drives across the 4th Street Bridge in Los Angeles, California.
Product Development
Telo Trucks Unveils Mini Pickup Truck
The company has more than 5,000 pre-orders.
March 7, 2025
Rendering of the JetZero aircraft.
Product Development
Delta, JetZero Partner to Design Sustainable Aircraft
JetZero’s design is expected to be up to 50% more fuel-efficient than traditional aircraft.
March 6, 2025
Indy Autonomous Challenge Maserati MC20 with AI-Driver from Politecnico di Milano setting the autonomous land speed record at the Kennedy Space Center.
Product Development
Driverless Maserati Reaches Nearly 200 MPH
The vehicle set a new autonomous speed record.
March 6, 2025
Pratt & Whitney's Positive rotating detonation engine.
Product Development
RTX's Pratt & Whitney Completes Series of Rotating Detonation Engine Testing
Continued investment will accelerate path to integrated vehicle test.
March 5, 2025
This photo provided by Hyundai shows a 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5. The all-electric Ioniq 5 is one of the first vehicles to come with a Tesla-style charge port, allowing owners to charge at Tesla's nationwide network of Supercharger stations.
Product Development
Edmunds: What To Know About Buying An EV in 2025
Buyers will have more factors to face buying EVs in 2025.
March 5, 2025
Anduril's Barracuda-500.
Product Development
Anduril's Barracuda-500 Selected for Enterprise Test Vehicle Prototype Project
The program aims to create a highly-producible, modular, and affordable air vehicle.
March 4, 2025
In this Feb 2025 photo provided by Colossal Biosciences a genetically edited mouse with long, thick, woolly hair at a lab in Dallas, Texas.
Product Development
Scientists Genetically Engineer Mice with Thick Hair Like Extinct Woolly Mammoth
This biotech company wants to revive the woolly mammoth and the dodo bird.
March 4, 2025
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Finishing World
AkzoNobel Initiative Uses Industrial Residue to Make Paint
Nearly a third of the total residue generated during industrial effluent treatment at the plant goes into the manufacture of the paint.
March 4, 2025