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This Design is Inspired by the Lion's Claws, with the Purpose of Reducing Biological Solid Waste such as: Trunks, Branches, Splinters, Dry Leaves; to Create a Complement that will be integrated into the Ageoecological Fertilizer.
In such a way that this Mechanical Design will be used in Multiple Tasks in the Agroindustrial, Domestic Field, among other applications.
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One of the main reasons mechanical failure occurs in any kind of machinery is due to failure of the gear especially when the gear tooth beaks suddenly due to different reasons. The only way to deal with gear tooth breakage that is considered unfillable is replacement of the gear and disposal, but what if this is not the case?
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Our proposed small cargo drone delivery system is an innovative and cost-effective solution for short intercity distances. The system consists of two types of drones, Balto and Togo, which work together to optimize the delivery process. Balto is an electric quadcopter that picks up cargo from a user-specified location and delivers it to a sorting buffer.
2023 Entries
>> All
>> Aerospace & Defense
>> Automotive/Transportation
>> Bio-Medical
>> Electronics
>> Manufacturing & Materials
>> Robotics & Automation
>> Sustainable Technology
2023 Participants
>> Entrants
2023 Results
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Kevin Alderman
Heat Treat Engineer
Malath Arar
Staff Engineer
James Becker
Chief Innovation Officer
Richard Berger
Lead Program Engineer Aero & Thermal - Trucks
Nate Bernklau
Product System Design Partner
Mantosh Bhattacharya
Gregory Blackwell
Principal Scientist II
Angelo Bonfieti
Mergers & Acquisitions IT Integrator
Leonid Bunegin
Chief Innovation Officer
Sabin Carpiuc
Senior Physical Modeling Engineer
Miguel Castillo
VP Technology Development
ChiehMin Cheng
Research Fellow / Area Manager
Federico Cindolo
Director of Research
Chris Cook
Sr. Engineering Manager
Jeff Crompton
Chief Technology Officer
Michael Cukier
Principal Engineer, Advanced Manufacturing
Fernando Da Mota Lopes Junior
Mechanical Engineer
Monica de Andrade
Global Product Manager
Adrian Draghici
R&D Manager
David Ferguson
Global Technology Leader
Francesco Ferretti
Product Design Engineer
Jon Fifield
Chief Engineer
Mitch Finne
Engineering Director
Inmaculada Galvez
Supply Chain Quality Manager
Lee Gates
Technical Pathfinder
Jim Hathaway
Manager, Advanced Technologies Programs
Robert Holzhauer
Electrical Cost Engineer
David Hosey
Engineering Manager
Vivek Jain
Lead Expert
Farhan Jangda
Product Manager
Tomasz Kawala
Technical Specialist, Electronics Design
Boris Khusid
Professor
Wonoh Kim
Principal Software Engineer
Andreas Klemm
Compliance Program Manager
Ozgur Kocaturk
VP of MRI Guided Therapies
Bharath Konda
Product Marketing Manager
Patrick Krueger
Manager, Manufacturing Engineering
Deepak Kulkarni
Rick Langkamp
Manager of New Product Development (Retired)
Christopher Lewis
Senior Staff Product Manager
Joseph Lipman
Director of Device Development
Lorena Lopez
Clinical Specialist - Head of Clinical Affairs
Reggie Lund
Design Engineer
William Mazzara
Global Cybersecurity Technical Fellow
Jose Mercado Rojas
Scott Moore
Chief Engineer
Kevin Moore
Sr. Principal Engineer
Arunachalam Nagarajan
Engineering Senior Manager
Paul Nussbaum
Professor
Michael O'Connor
Senior Research Program Director
Stephen Osborne
Director of Engineering
Kapil Panchal
Aerodynamics Engineer
Anilkumar Pandit
Senior Consulting Engineer
Jay Paster
Electronics Engineer
Marek Piechocinski
MEMS Design Engineer
Peter Piechocniski
Manager Electrical Applications
Ron Pietrowski
Steam Engineering Manager
Antonio Quintieri
Principal Engineer
John Radke
Mgr. Integrated Technologies Product Support
Fayaz Rasheed
Senior Mechanical System and Design Analysis Engineer
Robert Render
Business Development Manager, Sustainability
Scott Rishell
Director of Application Development
Edgar Rodriguez
Director, Smart Interactions Design Group
Marc Rosenmayr
Advisor
Alex Selvarathinam
LM Fellow
Gary Sera
Director Emiritus
Abiraman Srinivasan
Chief Technology Officer
Mike Stokes
Principal Design Engineer
Samson Stoll
Systems Engineer
John Trevino
Lead Staff Engineer
Wladimiro Villarroel
Associate Professor
Torbjorn Virdung
Technical Expert, Complete Vehicle CFD
William Wells
Control System Engineer
Rich Wells
Associate Professor
Stephen Wilson
Director of Engineering
Puck Yan
Principal Professional Staff
Nan Zhang
Scientist, Senior Key Expert, R&D
The following entries received the highest overall scores from the panel of judges.
They are listed in alphabetical order by title.
A Low-Cost Precise Landing Method for Drone Logistics
AI Supported Robotic Diagnostic Treatment System for Vertigo
ALIFE AIR (Zero Emission Fuel)
Arm Monkey Interactive Toy for Arm Rehabilitation of Children
Astron Omega 1 Rotary Hydrogen Engine
Automatic Identification System Heads Up Display (AISHUD)
Betterfrost Ultra-low Energy Defrost & Defog System
Bio-inspired Lightweight and Energy-efficient Planetary Drill and Sample
Biodegradable Environmental Sensors
Caldera - Electric Vehicle Charging Simulation Platform
Carbon Capture and Utilization
Celcy - the Automated Nespresso of Food
Closed Loop Control for the Reduction of Soot in Diesel Fueled Engines
Continuous Predictive Respiratory Monitoring
CRBBP Process: Cost-Effective CO2 Capture, Remediation & Bio-Products
Damage Tolerant Anticorrosion Coating for Steel
Double Sided Active Cooling for High Power Electronics
DOWSIL™ TC-4060 for Powertrain Electrification
DOWSIL™ TC-6015 Thermal Encapsulant
DURATRACK Two Component Waterborne Coating for Durable Green Bike Lane
Electric Arc Pseudoalloy Coatings
Electronically Invincible GPS and Communication Receiver
Eternium Long Range Multi-role Fuel Cell Electric Aircraft and Fuel System
First Drug to Stop Disease Progression in Heart Failure Patients
Flushable Minibots for Leak Detection and Prediction
From Waste to Energy Materials Such as Carbon Nanotubes and Hydrogen
Gaia Project Australia Leafy Green CEA Farm
Gigabot X: Recycling Plastic via Pellet 3D Printing
HCCI Fickett-Jacobs Cycle Internal Pulse Detonation Engine
High-temperature Air-cooled Hydrogen Fuel Cells — a Solution for Zero-emission Aviation
iChessOne: The First FOLDABLE Electronic Chessboard
Improving Diesel Engine Emissions with Real-Time Non-Surfactant Fuel Supply System
KUHMUTE Universal Charging Network for Anything Smaller than an Electric Car
Large Scale Spark Plasma Sintering for Silicon Carbide Armor Tiles
Large-scale 3D Printing with Tubes
Lightweight Steel for Body-in-White and Battery Enclosures of Electric Vehicles
Lionheart Biotechnology - Miniaturizing the Test Tube
Low-Cost Laboratory-Grade Refractometer for DEF Fluid Quality
LuxSense™: the World’s 1st High-end Silicone Leather for Auto
Meili Technologies: Revolutionizing Vehicle Safety with Deep Learning Medical Emergency Detection
Microrobot Device for Treating Brain Hemorrhages
Mouth-Guard: Wearable Saliva-based Biosensor for Heart Health Monitoring
Multi-Ducted Angled Rotor System
New Perovskite Glass Composite Enabling Unbreakable Screens
Passive Porous Tube Nutrient Delivery System
POWERBLoK Ultracapacitor Energy Storage Solution
Real-Time Pathogen Detection Technology
Red Series Additive Fusion Technology
RF Fingerprinting for Industrial IoT Security
RISC Camera for Hyperspectral Image Endoscopy
Seawater Electrolysis System with High-current-density Capability
Smart Molecules Act as Computer Transistors
Smart Orthopedic Implant to Enhance Bone Growth
Smartphone-Based COVID-19 Test
Solar Guardian PV Connector for Preventing Arc-Faults in Solar Arrays
SUNPave: Tomorrow’s Energy Today
Swarm Control and Extensible, Transformative, Spacecraft using CubeSats as Modular Building Blocks
Tactical Aerial Kinetic Device™ TAK-D™
Teralase Compact Excimer Laser
The Novel Squid Glaucoma microShunt
The Truly Revolutionary “Impossible” Reactionless Drive
Tracking and Mitigation of Space Debris from LEO Satellites
Universal Solder Stencil (U.S.S.)
Viewing Fiber Optic Connectors
Vision-Based High-Speed Autonomous Drone Navigation
Waterborne Paints for Automobile Application
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