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Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...
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Hello, Is Anybody Out There? Scientists Make The Berlin Wall Talk
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a steel foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things. But then, he never had the...
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Don’t Try This At Home: How To Catch A Lightning In A Bottle
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things. But then, he never had the...
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GE Makes Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List
Fast Company included GE in its annual list of the most innovative companies. GE is the top-ranked industrial company on the list, which includes many digital darlings like BuzzFeed (ranked at the very...
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Ready For Prime Time: Intel Joins GE As It Opens Predix, Its Digital Platform...
Few people can fathom the sheer size of the World Wide Web, the most visible part of the Internet where we shop, meet friends, read news and watch movies. But the Web will soon be a minnow when...
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The Electron’s Digital Journey: Do You Know Where Your Power Comes From?
The electrons that brew your first cup of coffee in the morning have many different parents. Some were born on a wind farm, while others came from a gas-fired power plant or a water turbine buried deep...
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Flying Light: Getting Fast Power To Faraway Places
Christmas comes in the summer in sub-Saharan Africa, and for months leading up to the 2014 holiday season, homes and businesses in Cabinda, Angola, were often hot and dark. The old power grid that had...
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Deep Learning: New Subsea Service Model Helps Oil Drillers Limit Costs
When Marc Edwards joined Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. as chief executive in 2014, he already knew how dependent offshore drilling rigs were on blowout preventers — valve assemblies designed to...
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What’s Inside A Jet Engine? These Scientists Are On A...
Dr. Waseem Faidi’s research playground looks an awful lot like a high-tech hospital room. There’s the large white doughnut of a computed tomography scanner and a medical bed surrounded by digital dials...
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And The UAV Goes To: The Making Of The Trophy Drone At The New York City...
The footage captured by drones used to be the stuff of stunt pilots or computer-generated effects: a bird’s-eye view of a scientist standing disconcertingly close to a lake of bubbling lava; an...
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This Machine Can Cut Titanium Like A Hot Knife Slicing Through Butter
Metal-cutting technology hasn’t changed a great deal in the last 60 years. Operators still clamp metal parts to the support bench and use drill bits or some other tools to achieve the desired shape....
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GE Is Building America’s 1st Offshore Wind Farm
New wind farms added more than a quarter of total new power generation capacity in the United States between 2010 and 2014, reaching 75,000 megawatts at the end of last year. No other country with the...
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This MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his...
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Digital Energy: How The Cloud Is Helping This Desert Utility Keep The Lights On
GE Healthcare engineers in Finland have recently started working on a predictive software system that could one day collect human vital signs like blood pressure, temperature and breathing rate, and...
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Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...
View ArticleThe LEDs Have Ears: The Company Edison Founded Seeks Interactive Lights In A...
How many inventors does it take to change the future of a lightbulb? GE Lighting partnered with the maker movement magazine Make: and the hardware-hacking community Hackster to find out. Their...
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Where Jet Engines Take a Licking But Keep On Ticking
Every day is a bad day for flying if you hang out with Brian DeBruin. DeBruin runs GE Aviation’s jet engine test operations site in Peebles, Ohio, and his job is to make sure that GE engines keep...
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Jeff Immelt: Preparing for What’s Next
On May 20th, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt delivered the keynote at New York University’s Stern Business School convocation. Here are excerpts from his message to the graduates. We’re in a volatile,...
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Are You Ready For The 18-Hour Flight?
The oil embargo of 1973 was a miserable period when American towns banned Christmas lights to save electricity, billboards urged citizens to “turn off the damn lights” and filling stations dispensed...
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Space Age Ceramics Are Aviation’s New Cup Of Tea
People have been making things from iron and steel for more than 3,000 years. Machines built from their alloys have landed on the moon and reached the very bottom of the ocean. But engineers such as GE...
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