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Drivers Wanted: Why Engineers Want To Climb Into The Cockpits Of Tiny Robot...
Sci-fi writers love to scare readers with tales of robots becoming sentient and taking over the world. The reality is a little more comical. Consider the self-driving Las Vegas bus that 2 hours into...
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Uncharted: How 3D Printing Experiments Delivered A Better Power Plant
Many of Kassy Hart’s first attempts at 3D printing didn’t end well.Back in 2015, Hart was trying to print a special metal probe from a cobalt-chrome alloy at GE Power’s Advanced Manufacturing Works in...
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How Thailand Can Become A Power Hub For ASEAN
Closer trade, economic, political, military, and education ties among ASEAN nations are some of the main benefits touted by supporters of regional integration.Cross-country energy partnership is one of...
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Innovation in 2018: GE Ventures Experts Look Ahead
With an array of technologies poised to converge in 2018, this year is likely to be one of transformation — for consumers, for individual companies and for entire industries. The Internet of Things,...
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Tour De Force: This Slovak Company Is 3D-Printing Bespoke Electric Mountain...
Patrik Paul loved riding his bike everywhere growing up in the Slovak capital Bratislava. He dreamed of the perfect mountain bike — one that exactly matched his center of gravity and perfectly gripped...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A robot in California is acting like a total baby, researchers in the U.K. smuggled a tumor-tracing virus into patients’ brains, and plants in Australia are breeding like rabbits. We’d say 2018 is off...
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The Fix Is In: AI Is Solving The Riddle Of Smarter, Faster Maintenance
It might seem like a cushy job to be the man or woman who works out of the carpeted offices of a power plant, coordinating field service crews who traipse out into the elements to fix, say, an idled...
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Added Value: New GE Center Helps Companies Catch Up On 3D Printing
3D printing is taking off. Literally.Just a few weeks ago, GE Aviation fired up for the first time the Advanced Turboprop engine. The company 3D printed 35 percent of the engine, combining 855 parts...
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The GE Brief – January 9, 2018
“We call it intelligent dispatching.”– Scott Berg, chief executive of GE’s ServiceMax1. THE FIXERDon’t be too surprised if calling for maintenance gets a lot more efficient soon. Starting this year,...
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Batteries Included: Hybrid Power Plants Let Californians Breathe Easy
As Hollywood’s awards season continues and film studios jockey for their Oscars, one Los Angeles entity has racked up enough trophies to make Warner Brothers green with envy. Southern California Edison...
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Change Of Heart: This Augmented Reality System Could Help Ultrasound Trainees...
Human hearts, as most schoolchildren know, are located in the upper left side of the chest. But under the skin, things get murkier. In fact, medical workers occasionally confuse the heart with another...
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Comeback Kid: Will Bolick Has Been Fighting His Entire Life, And He’s Only 5...
Every minute, approximately 255 babies are born around the world. Most of them arrive full-term at 37 to 40 weeks’ gestation. However, 10 percent are born prematurely and need additional care to...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists at Duke University flexed human muscles grown from stem cells for the first time, a thumbnail-sized sensor connected to a smartphone app can track your sun exposure, and another device can...
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Just What The Software Ordered: This AI Could Help Finnish Doctors Spot Cancer
In 2014, three young men from far-flung parts of the world teamed up in Finland with an audacious plan that could soon help doctors save more lives, not to mention money, and chart a new course for...
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Trial And Error: Could This App Help Drug Development For Alzheimer’s Disease...
When a drug trial fails, many factors could be involved, including the way the study was designed, the treatment’s efficacy or safety risks. Some of these are easier to fix than others. Innovative...
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Seeing With Sound: From Bats and Submarines to AI-Powered Medical Imaging
The Italian priest and scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani ran a series of experiments in the 1790s and discovered that blindfolded bats were able to find their way around and catch flies. Yet, when he took...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists in Pennsylvania are planning to re-engineer human immune cells to sniff out and kill cancer, a drone saved swimmers caught in rough surf in Australia, and an AI robot assistant in England...
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Meet GE’s Brangelina: For These Two Moms, Job-Sharing Was The Ultimate Power...
When Bobbi Eldrid and Lynda Kaufman discovered they were both expecting their first children, they began chatting about an age-old struggle. “We were asking ourselves, ‘How do you balance being a mom...
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Heart To Heart: Two Innovators Reveal What’s Next For 3D-Printing In Healthcare
Jimmie Beacham, who runs GE Healthcare’s Advanced Manufacturing Lab in Waukesha, Wisconsin, received an unusual request a year ago. One of his colleagues asked him whether he could 3D print his heart....
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GE’s Fourth-Quarter Results: Focusing For The Future
Today, GE released its fourth-quarter results for 2017, reporting $0.27 of adjusted earnings per share. Significant one-time charges in the quarter—including an insurance charge, U.S. tax reform, and...
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