SICT SA

08/05/2024

Exciting announcement!

We're thrilled to share some great news with you! Over the past year, our team has been hard at work, and the results are nothing short of amazing.

With an impressive 20% growth, we've expanded our team by 25 talented individuals and tripled our office space!

But that's not all…

As part of our journey to reflect these amazing changes and our commitment to innovation, we're undergoing a major rebranding.

🎨 To kick things off, take a first look at our new logo! 🎨

Stay tuned as we continue to reveal more about our exciting transformation story.

There's much more to come!

01/05/2024

How small a wireless robot can be in a millimetre-scale?

Robots have already proved to be promising tools to complete complex and demanding maintenance tasks. While engineers have developed a wide range of robots that could help to maintain and repair infrastructure, many of these robots need to be plugged into external power sources, which limits their r...

20/04/2024

New engineering solutions aid aircraft electrification:
https://www.edn.com/actuation-gear-aids-aircraft-electrification/

Microchip pairs gate driver boards with Hybrid Power Drive modules to ease the aviation industry’s transition to electric actuation systems.

12/04/2024

Boeing: a focus to profit at the expense of quality engineering? What's the story?
https://theconversation.com/should-you-be-concerned-about-flying-on-boeing-planes-225675

The American aerospace company Boeing has been synonymous with safe air travel for decades, but recent weeks have seen it plagued by a series of issues.

11/04/2024

Innovation doesn't necessarily come in a form of a new product or new technology. Often it's about a new way to solve an old problem.

05/04/2024

Researchers are creating new privacy preserving cameras to install in robotic devices to avoid the privacy surrounding images from hospitals, homes and other facilities leaking to the web.

From robotic vacuum cleaners and smart fridges to baby monitors and delivery drones, the smart devices being increasingly welcomed into our homes and workplaces use vision to take in their surroundings, taking videos and images of our lives in the process.

28/03/2024

Researchers found the way how AI can help engineers predict catastrophic failure by finding the absence of pattern.

Humans are very good at spotting patterns, or repeating features people can recognize. For instance, ancient Polynesians navigated across the Pacific by recognizing many patterns, from the stars' constellations to more subtle ones such as the directions and sizes of ocean swells.

20/03/2024

This secret coating of insects can allow the development of bioinspired optical materials with possible applications ranging from invisible cloaking devices to coatings to more efficiently harvest solar energy.
The unique, tiny particles called brochosomes have an unusual soccer ball-like geometry with cavities, and their exact purpose for the insects has been something of a mystery to scientists since the 1950s... as this coating becomes like invisible cloak.

Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers.

12/03/2024

Robotics researchers came up with Softness Rendering Interface (SORI), which recreates the softness of a range of real materials, filling a gap in the robotics field and enabling many applications where softness sensation is critical: from deep-sea exploration to robot-assisted surgery.

The perception of softness can be taken for granted, but it plays a crucial role in many actions and interactions—from judging the ripeness of an avocado to conducting a medical exam, or holding the hand of a loved one. But understanding and reproducing softness perception is chall...

01/03/2024

What if humans could have a biohybrid robotic jellyfish to help us explore the oceans on our behalf, reporting back what they find? Caltech aims to make that a reality.



Jellyfish can't do much besides swim, sting, eat, and breed. They don't even have brains. Yet, these simple creatures can easily journey to the depths of the oceans in a way that humans, despite all our sophistication, cannot.

19/02/2024

How can the soft robot fingers feel something like whether the fruit is ripe enough during automated harvesting? Are we still in need of built-in sensors?

With a brief squeeze, you know whether an avocado, peach or tomato is ripe. This is what a soft robot hand also does, for example, during automated harvesting. However, up until now, such a gripper needed sensors in its 'fingers' to determine whether the fruit was ripe enough.

12/02/2024

Stay always in search of innovative ideas and new solutions.

05/02/2024

A West Virginia University mechanical engineer has developed a way to predict the neuron and muscle patterns controlling locomotion for animals of any size, moving at any speed.
Will this inspire a biology thinking to build better robotics?

A West Virginia University mechanical engineer has developed a way to predict the neuron and muscle patterns controlling locomotion for animals of any size, moving at any speed.

30/01/2024

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts
on the table!

26/01/2024

Is there a way to calculate a collapsing point for the fruit stand? Physicists and mechanical engineers from Chile, have found a way to find the stability points of granularly arranged monolayers in a single pile with tilted slopes. With this research, can we prevent some other more important collapses?

A small team of physicists and mechanical engineers from Universidad de Antofagasta, Universidad Autónoma de Chile and Universidad de O'Higgins, all in Chile, has found a way to find the stability points of granularly arranged monolayers in a single pile with tilted slopes.

18/01/2024

Is hydrogen in automotive alive? Or how truck and energy company Nikola showed off one of its first hydrogen cell electric trucks last week at CES.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/hydrogen-powered-evs/

Why now—and what would it take to get there?