Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A metal that can move on its own will play a key role in NASA’s next voyage to Mars A metal that can move on its ...

Another Kickstarter, another opportunity for people to get mad at delayed and poorly functioning (if delivered at all) gadgets. This project aims to make airless tires for bikes and scooters using ...

You’ve likely heard of Nitinol wire before, but we suspect the common base knowledge doesn’t go much beyond repeating that it’s a shape-memory alloy. [Bill Hammack], the Engineer Guy, takes us on a ...

Any robot that moves needs actuators—motors that move parts of the robot around. While robot actuators have been around since the dawn of machines, they have some issues. For one, it is very difficult ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM) and The University of Toledo Institute of Applied Engineering Research today announced a partnership to support the development of nickel-titanium ...

As an extremely versatile product, nickel-titanium (nitinol) has been in high demand for the production of various medical devices since well before the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Today, a ...