Tom Kevan Editorial Contributor

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• Get the Most from Advanced Materials
  January 17, 2020
  The need for composite and customized materials grows within the product engineering realm, but multiscale modeling and simulation software still needs fine tuning.
• Robots Are Going Soft
  December 1, 2019
  Materials innovations are helping create less rigid, more compliant robotic structures.
• Making Sense of Industrial Connectivity Trends
  November 1, 2019
  Today, the industry sees M2M as a set of technologies that connect machines, devices and objects in a way that helps them exchange information without human intervention.
• Will Robots Find a Place in the Smart Home?
  November 1, 2019
  For developers and engineers, emerging “social robot” applications are still a work in progress.
• Get the Most from Advanced Materials
  January 17, 2020
  The need for composite and customized materials grows within the product engineering realm, but multiscale modeling and simulation software still needs fine tuning.
• Robots Are Going Soft
  December 1, 2019
  Materials innovations are helping create less rigid, more compliant robotic structures.
• Making Sense of Industrial Connectivity Trends
  November 1, 2019
  Today, the industry sees M2M as a set of technologies that connect machines, devices and objects in a way that helps them exchange information without human intervention.
• Will Robots Find a Place in the Smart Home?
  November 1, 2019
  For developers and engineers, emerging “social robot” applications are still a work in progress.
• With UX, the User Drives Design
  October 1, 2019
  Market changes are causing engineers to redefine what UX design means.
• Designing Machines in the Age of the IIoT
  October 1, 2019
  To design equipment for the new digital age, engineers are reinventing the product design process.
• Is Mixed Reality Worth a Try?
  August 1, 2019
  The visual technology holds much promise for design review and collaboration, but still faces limitations in hardware and processing power.
• Can AR Enhance Design?
  August 1, 2019
  Though augmented reality brings benefits for collaboration and design review, hardware limitations make engineers wonder about its viability.
• NAND Flash Finds a Home in the IoT
  July 1, 2019
  Advances in the technology now let NAND flash memory offer faster throughput, greater flexibility and better price points per byte, opening the door for its use as primary storage.
• The IoT Processor Dilemma
  July 1, 2019
  Proliferation of Internet of Things connected devices has led to increased complexities in product design.
• Creating an Origami Sensor Array
  May 1, 2019
  The rise of the Internet of Things, the growing role of printed electronics and the increasing number of technologies that mimic nature have all shaped the system’s development.
• Sensors Smarten Up the Edge
  May 1, 2019
  Companies that want to bring AI to the edge face hardware and data processing challenges.
• Morphing 3D-Printed Architectures into 4D
  April 1, 2019
  No longer will designers focus solely on dimensions like height, width and depth.
• Pushing the Printed Electronics Envelope
  April 1, 2019
  The prospects are real, but we may have to wait a bit before we can experience the full benefit of additive manufacturing in electronics.
• Making Autonomous Vehicles Smarter
  March 1, 2019
  Combining real-world info and simulated conditions to build a data set.
• Connecting the Thread: IoT
  February 1, 2019
  Most designers delve into unknown territory when it comes to implementation in the commercial sector of IoT.