For his PhD at the University of Michigan, [Adam] designed a Raspberry Pi-based system that controls an HCCI engine, a type of engine which combines the merits of both diesel and gasoline engines.

Several years ago, computers that could make sense of machine vision and other sensor data must have appeared to automakers like black boxes—completely inscrutable save for their applications. Now, ...

One of the most striking aspects of this week’s launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket is the number of engines the triple-core booster used to reach orbit. Each of the cores had nine Merlin rocket engines ...