Engineering Industry Insights & Trends
Engineering Industry Insights & Trends
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Explore the length and breadth of 21st century engineering, from civil engineering megaprojects to innovation at the quantum level. We speak with subject matter experts and industry watchers from every sector of the engineering discipline.
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Explores key engineering themes including advancements in semiconductor technology with episodes on gallium nitride applications, innovations in minimally invasive surgery, current trends in robotics and humanoid assistants, the role of AI in manufacturing, the potential future of computer-aided engineering, and the state-of-the-art in additive manufacturing.
Explore the length and breadth of 21st century engineering, from civil engineering megaprojects to innovation at the quantum level. We speak with subject matter experts and industry watchers from every sector of the engineering discipline.
Self-driving cars, drones, humanoid robots. They are all over the news and popular culture today and are technologies that need a critical capability: navigation. It’s been true for thousands of years, and for most of human history, dead reckoning was a rare skill, and a black art. “Shooting” stars with the sextant is still an option for sport sailors, but today, repeatability and accuracy have never been more important.
It’s been a story of rapid technological development for the last 75 years, from the gyro compass, accelerometer driven inertial navigation systems, to stellar tracking, and terrain following. GPS is of course the lowest cost method in widespread use today, but even its significant capability isn’t enough for many of today’s demanding applications.
Advanced Navigation Senior Application Engineer Matthew Suntup describes the challenges and capabilities of this critical technology in conversation with engineering.com’s Jim Anderton.
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engineering.com produces a number of video programs for the engineering professional found exclusively on engineering.com TV such as Designing the Future, Manufacturing the Future, and The Engineering Roundtable.
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