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INSIDER: Imaging
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) and NASA’s Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) recently recorded an image showing three of the four inner rocky planets. The...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
IR and UV Optics
Edmund Optics (EO) (Barrington, NJ) has released Zinc Selenide (ZnSe) Wedged Windows, which are ideal for infrared (IR) applications, and TECHSPEC® Calcium Fluoride (CaF2) Aspheric Lenses, which have high...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
The pursuit of fusion as a safe, carbon-free, always-on energy source has intensified in recent years, with a number of organizations pursuing aggressive...
INSIDER: Propulsion
When SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule splashed down off the Florida coast in August following its first crewed mission, the two astronauts inside could not exit the capsule immediately....
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
“Smellicopter” uses a live moth antenna to avoid obstacles and seek out smells.
Briefs: Software
The functioning human heart pump provides a model to track and trace what happens at the cell and molecular levels in the pump structure.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
The invention can become color-changing “artificial muscle.”
Briefs: Materials
The coatings can be deposited on substrates such as glass, polymers, metals, and aerogels.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
The technology could lead to a platform for quantum computation or new types of energy-efficient data storage applications.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This method is an important step towards smaller, more advanced, environmentally friendly electronics.
NASA Spinoff: RF & Microwave Electronics
Pilots and air traffic controllers no longer will rely solely on voice communications.
Briefs: Materials
A potential boon to green manufacturing, the new glue saves on energy, time, and space.
Briefs: Aerospace
The material is designed for high-temperature applications in aircraft, building insulation, personal protective clothing, industrial, and automotive.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Equipment designers can simplify design efforts and adjust controller platforms as needed when they standardize on electronic input/output products.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This method obtains high-color-purity 3D objects using a new class of nanoparticles.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology has potential across many industries including water reclamation and treatment, and waste destruction in liquid waste streams.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
By converting CO2 into complex hydrocarbon products, a new catalyst could aid in large-scale efforts to recycle excess carbon dioxide.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The next generation of waterproof smart fabrics can be laser-printed and made in minutes.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This built-in security measure would prevent hackers from getting enough information about the circuit to reverse-engineer it.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
Hundreds of drones can recharge autonomously on unmanned ground vehicles.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Live discussions will explore electric vehicles, propulsion, advanced electronics, and more.
Briefs: Materials
A chemical process converts polyethylene plastic into a strong, valuable adhesive.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Perseverance is the first leg of a round trip to Mars.
Q&A: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Professor Shirley Meng explains why there's a demand for stretchable batteries.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The stretchable electronics are more stable as they change shape, which could lead to next-generation sensors for healthcare applications.
Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See how NASA Langley tests a variety of advanced aircraft concepts. including ways to make flying both cleaner and quieter.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The algorithms enable drones to quickly switch between hover and forward flight.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The device has applications in medical diagnostics and homeland security.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technique could have applications in diagnosing and monitoring the lungs of patients with COVID-19.
Technology Leaders: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The importance of a proactive and systematic method for collecting machine and process data within a smart manufacturing environment cannot be overstated.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Onboard cameras can be used to keep damaged quadcopters in the air and flying stably, even without GPS.
5 Ws: Imaging
With a smartphone camera, a new diagnostic test provides a positive or negative COVID-19 result in 15 to 30 minutes.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Researchers have demonstrated that they can attract, capture, and destroy perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of federally regulated substances nicknamed “the forever chemicals”...
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
By design, new 3D scanners are motionless during inspection.
Technology Leaders: Imaging
Learn about light-field candidates like camera arrays, plenoptic cameras, active cameras with depth sensor, and the newly developed focal-stack camera.
Technology Leaders: Imaging
Powerful, tiny cameras provide unique streaming-video solutions for NASA robots and defense applications.
Briefs: Lighting
Researchers are tapping into dynamically controlled LEDs to create a simple illumination system for 3D imaging.
Products: Photonics/Optics
Near-eye displays, optical inspection systems, UV glass, and more.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A novel technique for a high-brightness coherent and few-cycle duration source spans seven optical octaves.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The marking provides easy-to-see legends on plastic buttons under widely varying illumination conditions.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Any hyperspectral system needs to maintain a stable and accurate radiometric and spectral calibration.
Application Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
While ADAS has improved freeway and high-speed driving, the basic need for collision mitigation with pedestrians and bicyclists has mostly remained unaddressed.
Briefs: Imaging
Imagine being able to snap a picture of extremely fast events on the order of a picosecond.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
The virtual event offers a mix of live plenary talks, on-demand technical presentations and discussions, online networking and special events.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
See what kinds of applications require high-precision laser glass with demanding dimensional tolerances and high-power laser coatings.
Briefs: Weapons Systems
Researcher are finding ways to estimate a target location when light gets deflected by a disordered structure.
Special Reports: Aerospace
Rugged Computing - March 2021
From the battlefield to the oceans to the extremes of space, electronics and computing advances enable missions in the harshest conditions. To help you keep pace with the latest developments, we present this...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See what kinds of sensors are supporting self-driving vehicles.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The ability to identify hidden patterns, predict future issues, forecast usage and costs, and derive insights from IoT sensor data will reshape the industrial process forever.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The sensor monitors the oil circulation ratio in real time for heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Study shows improvements to chemical sensing chip that aims to quickly and accurately identify drugs and other trace chemicals.
Application Briefs: Transportation
With new vehicles, automotive manufacturers will need to closely monitor the current flowing to the motor.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A patch of needles connected to a paper sensor diagnoses conditions such as prediabetes.
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
A "smart building" platform incorporates hardware, software, and cloud analytics to form a digital "backbone."
Briefs: Wearables
Real-time health monitoring and sensing abilities of robots require soft electronics, but a challenge of using such materials lies in their reliability.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
A mathematical framework can help engineers make informed decisions about which sensors to use and where they must be positioned in aircraft and other machines.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Is "SPE" the future of industrial automation and automotive? It certainly has the potential, says Mike Anderson.
Briefs: Materials
Sensors need to be flexible, stretchable, biodegradable, safe, and stable for use in the body.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In-air UAV docking, digital communication via touch, and a computer-vision monitor for diabetes.
Briefs: Materials
The material can be recycled, making renewable energy more sustainable while lowering costs in the process.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The technology could continuously monitor fluid flow in pipes on the International Space Station and prevent satellites from colliding.
Products: Test & Measurement
Vision software, thermal sensors, ceramic pastes, and more.
Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
Unmanned Systems - March 2021
Drones that swarm and change shape mid-flight... autonomous combat vehicles on the battlefield...the latest in counter-UAS technology. Read about new advances in air and ground unmanned systems in this report from...Articles: Imaging
Learn about a variety of holographic 3D immersive displays.
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Do You See Applications for Electronics-Free Robots?
In our lead INSIDER story today, UCSD researcher Dylan Drotman talked to Tech Briefs about his team’s air-powered robot.
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A robot being developed at Tel Aviv University "hears" electrical signals, thanks to a natural sensor: the ear of a dead locust.
Blog: Transportation
Software and electrical engineering is converging in today’s vehicles. A reader asks our expert: “How do you decide which items to test first?”
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The 2021 “Create the Future” Design Contest is open, and we want to hear your big ideas.
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Will Technology Increasingly Integrate with Nature?
“Nature is much more advanced than we are, so we should use it,” said Dr. Ben Maoz, one of a team of Tel Aviv University researchers who created a robot that uses a dead locust’s ear to “hear” electrical signals and respond to them with movement. (Read our lead story to learn more.)
INSIDER: Energy
Range anxiety, the fear of running out of power before being able to recharge an electric vehicle, may be a thing of the past, according to a team of Penn State engineers who are...
INSIDER: Physical Sciences
Scientists at University of California, Davis, have proposed a solution to dendrite growth in rechargeable lithium metal batteries using microfluidics. The group proved that flowing ions near...
INSIDER: Energy
Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new, low-cost, wearable device that transforms the human body into a biological battery. The device is stretchy enough that you can wear it like a...
INSIDER: Energy
Rice University engineers have suggested a colorful solution to next-generation energy collection: Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) in your windows. The team designed and built...
Blog: Electronics & Computers
You have the power. That's the idea behind a "wearable microgrid" from the University of California San Diego that harvest and stores energy from your body to power electronics.
Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
Long-range radar is used in air-traffic control. Short-range radar supports automotive applications like collision avoidance. How do you know what range you need for your application?
Question of the Week: Propulsion
Will Turboelectric Aircraft Take Off?
A recent video on Tech Briefs TV highlighted NASA’s new idea for aircraft: the STARC-ABL. The concept under development aims to bridge the gap between current jet fuel-powered aircraft and future all-electric vehicles.
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In this episode of our Here's an Idea podcast, we speak to engineers who are building a variety of wearables. And some sensors blend in more than others.
Blog: Motion Control
Robotics researchers are developing exoskeleton legs capable of thinking and making control decisions on their own using sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
INSIDER: Software
There are some tasks that traditional rigid robots aren’t cut out for. Soft-bodied robots, on the other hand, may be able to interact with people more safely or slip into tight spaces with ease. But...
INSIDER: Motion Control
Army-funded researchers created nanosized robots that could enable locomotion, novel metamaterial design, and high-fidelity sensors. Cornell University researchers created micron-sized shape memory actuators that...
Blog: Test & Measurement
This year's winners included industrial-automation software, simulation tech, and digital storage oscilloscopes.
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This month’s Here’s an Idea episode highlighted a number of on-body sensors. Penn State professor Larry Cheng, for example, found a way to 3D-print a sensor directly on the skin (shown in the above image),...
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
Blog: Power
Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Materials
This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Blog: Software
Quiz: Power
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: AR/AI
The Real Impact of AR and AI in the Industrial Equipment Industry
Upcoming Webinars: Motion Control
Next-Generation Linear and Rotary Stages: When Ultra Precision...
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
SAE Automotive Engineering Podcast: Additive Manufacturing
Podcasts: Defense
A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Streamlining Manufacturing with Integrated Digital Planning and Simulation
On-Demand Webinars: Automotive
