Todd Zalud

There are tricks of the trade when it comes to getting an accurate measure of temperature.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) imagines an army of remote-controlled insect-cyborg scouts.

Replacing a pneumatic actuator with an intelligent lead-screw system let a company that makes shrink-bundling machinery avoid difficulties when changing product lines.

Environmental, cost, and safety issues are making leak-free hydraulics critical.

Conventional fluid-power laws often cannot adequately model hydraulic systems. They need a method that simultaneously solves for all parameters in the system.