When people think of the way new technologies are developed, they often think of the end product that people see on the shelf or showroom. This is true of any product, but it is most prominent in the ...

Thanks to a team of mechanical engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, design engineers now have Web access to 3D design-optimization software that will help them more quickly create parts ...

Mechanical engineers utilize simulation software to create and scrutinize designs before they are manufactured. This specific software allows them to replicate the product’s performance under an ...

The software team, led by Stelian Coros and Bernhard Thomaszewski in Disney Research’s Zurich lab, sought to create a way to make the design and fabrication of automata as easy as dorking around with ...

Remember when assembly was a predominately manual process? We still have pictures from installations in the 1980s showcasing this method of assembly operations. Lines of manual production systems with ...