Learning Objectives Review motor communication types with Ethernet experts. View archived webcast about optimizing motor drive communications prior to Aug. 4, 2023. Motor communication insights Review motor communication types with Ethernet experts, Michael Bowne, executive director from PI North America; Bob Trask, the North American representative of EtherCAT Technology Group; and Paul Brooks, ODVA […]
Nobel Prize laureates and other esteemed experts and leaders will gather at “Truth, Trust and Hope” for a global dialogue on how to stop misinformation from eroding public trust in science. Hosted by NAS and the Nobel Foundation, the summit takes place May 24-26 in Washington, D.C., and virtually.
138 KC-46A aerial refuelers are on order globally.
Position sensor insights While many vehicles are already equipped with autonomous technologies such as assisted parking and automatic braking, fully autonomous driving requiring no driver interaction is still some time off. Inertial measurement sensors, or IMUs, using an accelerometers and gyroscopes, will expedite the development of fully autonomous driving. IMUs help lower risk for vehicle […]
PackEXPO Insights Students from the Virginia Tech were given an opportunity to make real-time connections with professional and researchers while participating in PackExpo 2022. The Virginia Tech booth depicted the future of packaging from a range of perspectives, emphasizing both the use of sustainable materials to solve tangible packaging demands amd the wider challenges of […]
While Americans were reckoning with sky-high gas prices at the pump last year, the country’s biggest oil giant was raking in more money than ever. Exxon Mobil, one of the world’s largest oil companies, reported on Tuesday that it made $56 billion in profits in 2022. That’s the most a Western oil company has ever […]
The Control Engineering Product of the Year program (previously called Engineers’ Choice Awards) highlights some of the best new control, instrumentation, and automation products as chosen by Control Engineering‘s print and online subscribers. Qualified subscribers are asked to select products based on technological advancement, service to the industry, and market impact. Voting is now open for the 2023 […]
Why Putting Solar Canopies on Parking Lots Is a Smart Green Move A typical Walmart supercenter, for instance, has a five-acre parking lot, and it’s a wasteland, especially if you have to sweat your way across it under an asphalt-bubbling sun. Put a canopy over it, though, and it could support a three-megawatt solar array… […]
OpenAI has launched a tool for detecting text generated using services like its own ChatGPT. Generative AI models used for services like ChatGPT have raised many societal and ethical questions: Could they be used to generate misinformation on an unprecedented scale? What if students cheat using them? Should an AI be credited where excerpts are […]
Artificial intelligence has already shaved years off research into protein engineering. Now, for the first time, scientists have synthesized proteins predicted by an AI model in the lab, and found them to work just as well as their natural counterparts. The research used a deep learning language model for protein engineering called ProGen, which was […]