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Utilities are scrambling to install smart grid technologies with the hopes that greater visibility into their networks will help reduce costs and prevent disasters like the 2003 Northeast blackout. But...
View ArticleFrom Engineering.com: Self-Assembling Cube Robots
In this week's episode of This Week in Engineering, hosts Vince Penman and Dan Hedges discuss DARPA's galloping robot, self-assembling cube robots, jellyfish-killing robots, neutron microscope, an...
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For energy-intensive manufacturers, the microgrid can prevent lost production time caused by outages from weather or cyber-attacks. But the complexity of the business model makes securing financing...
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The chemical and product tanker market, which had been in a slump recent years, is rebounding as a result of the boom in U.S. natural gas production. But long lead times for tanker manufacturing...
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