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Port of Los Angeles: Data for April suggest that container ship bookings are down by 60%, and 30% of Pacific Ocean bookings to the U.S. have been canceled.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, trade with our three largest partners—Canada, China, and Mexico—accounted for more than $1.32 trillion in imports and $0.82 trillion in exports in calendar year 2024.
Metamaterials are synthetic materials with microscopic structures that give the overall material exceptional properties.
In metamaterials design, the name of the game has long been “stronger is better.”
Welcome to the prelaunch page for The Quality Digest Roadshow, a regular series dedicated to manufacturing, metrology, and the technology use in the pursuit of making stuff that’s cool, useful, or boring but essential.
Beehive Industries leverages cutting-edge additive manufacturing to create precision components for jet engines in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility.
When Jonaaron Jones started his master’s degree at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UT), his mentor invited him to visit the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, or MDF, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
What’s the hottest thing in electronics and high-performance computing? In a word, it’s “cool.”
One of the key findings in Greenlight Guru’s 2025 Medical Device Industry Re
Using a novel relevance framework developed at MIT, the robot identifies and prioritizes objects in the scene to autonomously assist humans in a seamless, intelligent, and safe manner.
For a robot, the real world is a lot to take in. Making sense of every data point in a scene can take a huge amount of computational effort and time. Using that information to then decide how to best help a human is an even thornier exercise.
In a professional kitchen, no chef prepares a steak, a cake, and a casserole simultaneously with all the ingredients scattered across the counter. There’s a method: one recipe at a time, with only the ingredients needed for that specific dish.
A few months ago I visited a potential customer, a high-tech startup, which like many Boston-area tech companies is developing astounding products that would have been considered science fiction only 10 years ago.