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Briefs: Motion Control
A new robot developed by Caltech researchers LEO carves out a new type of locomotion somewhere between walking and flying.
Question of the Week: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Will ‘Ocean Batteries’ Catch On?
Our lead story today highlights an innovative energy approach from a Netherlands-based company called Ocean Grazer. Tied to existing wind farms, the team’s “Ocean Battery” pumps water from solid subsea reservoirs into flexible bladders located just above the seabed. When there is a demand for power, the...
Articles: Energy
As light-duty and commercial-purpose battery electric vehicles (EVs) catch on, better, faster, and smarter battery recharging is on the way.
Articles: Automotive
A "Blade" battery has significant market potential in energy storage applications.
Briefs: Energy
Two-dimensional MXene provides fast redox and high-rate energy storage.
Briefs: Energy
A highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery generates, stores, and redelivers renewable electricity from the Sun in one device.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology has potential as a portable power supply in several applications, including electric vehicles, cellphones, and wearable technology.
Briefs: Energy
The discovery could enable lightweight, low-cost, long-lasting energy storage for electric vehicles, houses, and more.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The material could pave the way for better, safer solid-state batteries.
Articles: Energy
A new model visualizes the relationship between hydrodynamic and electrochemical phenomena.
Articles: Software
Create systems that efficiently and accurately complete testing cycles.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A software makes industrial robots nimbler and almost as sensitive as human hands.
Briefs: AR/AI
The software can be integrated with existing hardware to aid people using robotic prosthetics or exoskeletons.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These “living machines” hold potential for applications from medical treatments to improving the environment.
Briefs: Motion Control
Synthesized micro-robots can convert their mechanical motion into a means of self-propulsion in water.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A remotely controlled microswimmer could navigate the human body and aid in drug delivery.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A new fabrication technique helps improve the performance of flying micro-robots.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Learn how design engineers are making better gas meters.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The DPV concept matches the unique needs of electric vehicle cooling and energy management systems.
Application Briefs: Aerospace
OPTIMISM, the full-scale engineering model of Perseverance, is helping NASA assess the risk of potential driving hazards on Mars.
5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Imagine a tablet or Kindle that can display braille on command for the visually impaired.
Q&A: Materials
Professor Jiwoong Park and his team have made a material that is crystalline in the X-Y direction, but amorphous in the Z direction.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Four industry experts explore the future outlook for smart sensors and IIoT.
Briefs: Materials
A new fabrication methodology addresses the need for a thin, double-sided circuitry board.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Vibrating transducers create tunnels in a thin layer of oil to transport droplets across a chip without leaving a trace behind.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The sulfolane-additive process yields easy fabrication, low cost, and long operating life.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A 3D-printable elastomer yields soft, elastic objects that feel like human tissue.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Sensing is incorporated directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
Briefs: Materials
Parts remain crack-free and defect-resistant, making them conducive for use in metal-based 3D-printing applications.
Briefs: Materials
Inspired by barnacles, the paste provides an effective way to treat traumatic injuries and help control bleeding during surgery.
Briefs: Energy
The synthetic material is soft but can withstand heavy loading with minimum wear and tear for engineering applications.
Briefs: Materials
The carbon fiber reinforced material can be repeatedly healed with heat.
Briefs: Energy
Textiles and items of clothing can be converted into e-textiles without affecting their original properties.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This combination of technologies could enable developments for many optical applications.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include aircraft-mounted and space-based interferometers, electronics fabrication, and military optics.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This new design overcomes a long-standing LED efficiency problem and can also transform it into a laser.
Briefs: Materials
Fano Resonance Optical Coatings can both transmit and reflect the same color simultaneously.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Mechanical control and modulation of light on a silicon chip could enhance LiDAR.
Briefs: Imaging
Using ambient light, the reflective screen keeps energy consumption to a minimum.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The camera captures pulse and respiration signals from a video of a person’s face.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The camera could have uses in faster disease diagnosis and thinner cellphones.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In an airport, the scanner could eliminate the need for passengers to remove shoes at the checkpoint, speeding the screening process.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
This system enables fast analysis of hyperspectral images in disaster response or target detection scenarios.
Briefs: Imaging
The technology shines through fabrics to show notifications for email messages, time, weather, or other forms of basic information.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
A machine learning method promises to predict battery health with 10 times higher accuracy than the current industry standard.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The biofuel cells can power wearable electronics purely by using human sweat.
Briefs: Wearables
The device is stretchy enough to wear like a ring, a bracelet, or any other accessory that touches the skin.
Briefs: Energy
The battery charges faster than a lithium-ion battery and is fire-safe and eco-friendly.
Briefs: Energy
A new design could extend the shelf-life of single-use metal-air batteries for electric vehicles, off-grid storage, and other applications.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Activated carbon made from corn stover filters 98 percent of a pollutant from water.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This approach could result in developing chemical sensors that are sensitive at a very low level to a specific chemical in the environment.
Briefs: Energy
The method replenishes lithium in electrodes while keeping the existing structure intact.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
An optimized flash process could reduce carbon emissions.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Liquid-cooled workstations, universal amplifiers, hydrogen sensors, and more.
Facility Focus: RF & Microwave Electronics
Learn about the aviation, space, cybersecurity, and engineering achievements happening at Embry-Riddle.
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Software created with NASA expertise improves satellite-based search and rescue system.
Articles: Materials
Flexible electrodes, NASA sensors, and anti-corrosion compounds.
Special Reports: Manned Systems
Test & Measurement - February 2022
From space vehicles to the modern battlefield to the human body, test innovations are improving device and system reliability while speeding time to market. Read about the latest advances – including the...Special Reports: Medical
Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - February 2022
How virtual, cloud-based technologies are powering the next industrial revolution...transforming plastic parts into high-value products...designing optics for medical 3D printing. Read these...INSIDER: Medical
Demand for sensitive and selective electronic biosensors — analytical devices that monitor a target of interest in real time — is growing for a wide range of applications....
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Twisted nanoscale semiconductors manipulate light in a new way. This effect could be harnessed to accelerate the discovery and development of life-saving medicines as well as photonic...
INSIDER: Imaging
The trade-off between carrier mobility and stability in amorphous oxide semiconductor-based thin film transistors (TFTs) has been finally overcome by...
INSIDER: RF & Microwave Electronics
In efforts to limit the spread of disease while preserving privacy, an interdisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has designed and...
Blog: Energy
Are we really ready for hydrogen fuel cell trucks? An industry expert from Toyota talks about how hydrogen power is already being used in Los Angeles.
Q&A: Test & Measurement
Dr. Israel Owens and his team at Sandia National Laboratories have used a crystal smaller than a dime and a laser smaller than a shoebox to safely measure 20 million volts without making physical contact to the electrode.
5 Ws: Energy
Learn the Who, What, Where, Why, and When for an ocean battery that holds onto excess energy from offshore wind farms.
NASA Spinoff: Photonics/Optics
NASA’s lighting research gives people on Earth better rest and helps plants grow.
Question of the Week: Energy
Are Hydrogen Fuel Cells the Future?
In the summer of 2020, The Port of Los Angeles received 10 heavy-duty trucks, each having one defining component in common: a hydrogen fuel cell.
Briefs: AR/AI
An AI framework enables scientists to improve an imaging technique, enhancing the performance of electron microscopes.
Blog: Data Acquisition
Data centers have found a more efficient way of handling power. So, what led to the better power path?
Podcasts: Design
A new approach to designing luge sleds could help shave off those extra 1/1000 of a second that can be the difference between silver and gold at the Olympics.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Which machinery requires constant monitoring? According to one industry expert, the answer boils down to “Criticality.”
Question of the Week: Design
Would You Luge?
Could You Go 90 Miles an Hour in a Luge?
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new technique for measuring the performance of lithium batteries uses thermal waves to measure local lithium concentration as a function of depth inside battery electrodes.
Articles: Software
SAE WCX 2022 will convene the engineering community to connect, learn, and collaborate on the biggest issues facing the mobility industry.
Blog: Energy
The two components offer predictable responses that support new robots and new energy-absorbing materials.
Application Briefs: Aerospace
Hybrid-electric propulsion systems hold clear potential to reduce aircraft carbon dioxide emissions and support the goal of greater sustainability in aviation.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new control mechanism may prove useful in devices that make use of optical signals.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new technology uses nanoscale sensors and fiber optics to measure water status just inside a leaf’s surface, where water in plants is most actively managed.
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Do You See Valuable Applications for ‘Meta-Sense?’
A Tech Brief this month highlighted a manufacturing method from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that integrates sensing capabilities into 3D-printed objects.
Blog: Software
A reader asks: Is the design approach for electric vehicles similar to a vehicle with an internal combustion engine?
Podcasts: Energy
Canadian battery recycling company Li-Cycle is leveraging its sustainable process to provide an end-of-life solution for lithium-ion batteries.
INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
In the fifteenth century, artist and engineer Leonardo da Vinci envisioned a craft that flew using a single helix-shaped propeller — the aerial screw — viewed by many as...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Engineers at Caltech, ETH Zurich, and Harvard are developing artificial intelligence (AI) that will allow autonomous drones to use ocean currents to aid their navigation, rather than...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
This new advance could pave the way for smaller, lighter, and more effective micro flying robots for environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and deployment in hazardous...
Blog: Materials
A plastic known as 2DPA-1 is super-strong and super-light.
Top Stories
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Aya Durbin of Boston Dynamics on Why Humanoids Are the Future of...
Podcasts: Propulsion
Engineering Spacecraft Components at Scale for Commercial Space Growth
INSIDER: Motion Control
NVIDIA Announces Industry’s First Full-Stack Safety System for Physical...
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Blog: Aerospace
NASA Marches Toward Artemis III Mission in 2027
Blog: Energy
Clean Water, No Chemicals: The New Solar Desalination Process from...
Webcasts
Webinars: AR/AI
From Grid to GPU: Validating Next-Gen AI Data Center Power...
Summits: Energy
Hydrogen & Alternative Fuels Summit 2026
Webinars: Manned Systems
Engineering Extended-Range Hybrid Systems
Editorial Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Design for Miniaturization: Meeting the Demand for Smaller,...
Webinars: AR/AI
Why Your Integration Stack Is Blocking Your AI Roadmap
Editorial Webinars: Automotive
