Form, fit, and function, the engineering mantra made public in the 1990s, is usually applied in reference to consumer goods such as cars and cell phones.But the concept also holds in the design of ...

A reciprocating linear-motion assembly includes a means of automatically lengthening or shortening the travel distance on-the-fly without programming or electronic controls.

Neural networks work with multiple layers of computational units that function as neurons. “Each neuron can take an input, and those inputs can be, let’s say, numbers,” says Bandyopadhyay.