Today's Engineering Newswire looks at the world’s smallest reed switch, flying atom planes that are stronger than graphene, and doing karate with the Atlas robot.
The World’s Smallest Reed Switch: HSI Sensing has spent over a DECADE developing the world’s smallest Form B reed switch – the HSR-376. According to the company, it’s not a modified SPDT Form C switch or a magnetically-biased Form A switch. It’s a true Form B.
Unlike traditional reed blades that close in the presence of a magnet or magnetic force, this true Form B has reed blades that open in the presence of a magnet or magnetic force.
Atom Planes Stronger Than Graphene: Drexel University researchers working with the Dalian University of Technology in China have chemically engineered a new, electrically conductive nanomaterial that is flexible enough to fold into this tiny little airplane, strong enough to support many times its own weight, and have a significantly higher volumetric capacitance than graphene.
This conductive polymer nanocomposite is the latest iteration from a family of composite two-dimensional materials called MXenes, which could improve everything from electrical energy storage and water filtration to radio frequency shielding in portable electronics and co-ax cables.
Atlas Robot Preforms Karate: The Atlas robot is a high mobility robot designed to negotiate outdoor terrain, and includes 28 hydraulically-actuated degrees of freedom, and it can also do Karate.
These moves demonstrate the software developments made by the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, who are preparing for the DARPA Robotics Challenge finals in June 2015.
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