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Special Reports: Materials
Aerospace & Defense Sensing - April 2023
NASA is applying sensor technologies to create a state-of-the-art dexterous humanoid robot, to monitor the structural health of inflatable habitats designed for Mars, and to test the first all-electric...Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
Power Electronics - April 2023
This compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology looks at the latest advances in power electronics and energy storage for applications ranging from drones...Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Automation vendors are looking for the latest technology that will give them a competitive advantage.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
As manufacturing automation rapidly advances, conveyors are not only being used for transportation but also accurate material (or product) placement.
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Automate, to be held from May 22-25 in Detroit, MI, will provide attendees the latest in cutting-edge robotics, vision, artificial intelligence, motion control, and more.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
As battery manufacturers work to rapidly add new production capacity, they face a challenge in compressing the time it takes to build new production lines.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers have developed a quadrupedal robot control technology that can walk robustly with agility even in deformable terrain such as sandy beach.
Briefs: Design
A Terminator-style shape-shifting robot able to LIQUEFY and reform has been developed by engineers inspired by sea cucumbers.
Briefs: Motion Control
A Data-Driven Framework for Testing the Safety of Legged Robots
When it comes to the evolution of mobile robots, it may be a long time before legged robots are able to safely interact in the real world, according to a new study.
Briefs: Motion Control
MIT engineers have come up with an innovative approach to building deformable underwater robots, using simple repeating substructures instead of unique components.
Products: Design
See the new products for April 2023, including combustion valves, a linear motion system, an autonomous mobile robot, and more.
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Incorporating AI into a cobot-based application using a standard teach pendant or graphical user tool has been challenging and time-consuming, even for the most dedicated engineers.
Articles: Automotive
AV development will only become more important in the marketplace as the competition to produce new and advanced vehicle features continues to mount.
Articles: AR/AI
This year's CES provided a glimpse at whiz-bang technology and gadgets, as well as what might be the first in a whole new generation of premium VR headsets.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Building 3D-Printed Materials with Liquids
A research team has been tinkering with the use of 3D printing with liquids to create spongy materials for use in myriad industries.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Purdue University researchers have developed a method to add particles to filament and disperse them evenly through a traditional fused deposition modeling 3D printer.
Briefs: Medical
Researchers have developed a highly specialized 3D-printing technique that allows microfluidic channels to be fabricated on chips at a precise microscale.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
New research shows the glittering, serpentine structures that power wearable electronics can be created with the same technology used to print concert t-shirts.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The piezoelectric “meta-bot” is capable of propulsion, movement, sensing, and decision-making.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
New research suggests that laser-based devices are poised to become a lot smaller.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optical Signals can be retrieved from inherent background noise using Talbot effect to amplify them.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
NASA's NEID tool delivered its first batch of data on the nearest and best-studied star, our Sun.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
3D nanometer-scale metamaterial structures hold promise for advanced optical isolators.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
NASA’s Langley Research Center has developed a Beam Crossing Optical System for use in two-point Focused Laser Differential Interferometers.
Briefs: Materials
The commercially relevant approach opens a potential pathway to improve charging speeds for electric vehicles.
Briefs: Energy
Scientists created a zinc battery with a biodegradable electrolyte from an unexpected source — crab shells.
Briefs: Energy
An international research collaboration led by UCLA has developed a way to use perovskite in solar cells while protecting it from the conditions that cause it to deteriorate.
Briefs: Energy
The material could pave the way for better, safer solid-state batteries.
Briefs: Medical
The device uses soft robotics, ultra-thin electronics, and microfluidics.
Briefs: Medical
A new technique enables the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the air by using a nanotechnology-packed bubble that spills its chemical contents like a broken piñata when encountering the virus.
Briefs: Medical
An apparatus and method that controls the growth and proliferation of 3D biological cells and mammalian tissue in the presence of a pulsating, alternating ionic magnetic resonance field.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Researchers have developed the first ethical algorithm to fairly distribute the levels of risk rather than operating on an either/or principle.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The technology could be useful in manufacturing and assembly plants for sorting packages, or in any environment where humans and robots collaborate.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robotic vision has come a long way, reaching a level of sophistication with applications in complex and demanding tasks, such as autonomous driving and object manipulation.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Interactive program aids motion planning for environments with obstacles.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A team has designed and built a chip that runs computations directly in memory and can run a wide variety of AI applications.
Products: Energy
See what's new, including a new series of ultra-miniature isolated single and dual-output high voltage DC-DC converters and new line of industrial interconnects.
Special Reports: Materials
Optics & Photonics Innovations - April 2023
Demand for satellite communications bandwidth is quickly outstripping supply. The solution: optical, laser-based technologies. Read all about it – and other major photonics advances – in this...Podcasts: Energy
Amprius Technologies has achieved a new battery energy density breakthrough of 500 Wh/kg with its lithium-ion cell, the Silicon Anode Platform.
5 Ws: Green Design & Manufacturing
MIT alumnus-founded FarmWise uses autonomous machines to snip weeds while preserving crops, eliminating the need for herbicides.
NASA Spinoff: Software
Software for modeling metal parts before 3D printing provides significant savings in cost and time compared to conventional physical testing.
Technology & Society: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg has partnered with Alquist, a 3D printing home construction company, to 3D print homes in Williamsburg.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
The molecules in our bodies are in constant communication. Some of these molecules provide a biochemical fingerprint that could indicate how a wound is healing, whether a cancer...
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Everyone is talking about the newest AI and the power of neural networks, forgetting that software is limited by the hardware on which it runs. But it is hardware, says USC...
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
Researchers from TMOS, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, have developed a sensor made from an array of nanowires,...
Quiz: Connectivity
How much do you know about cybersecurity? Take this quiz to find out.
Application Briefs: Design
Through the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, Boeing is partnering with NASA to develop and flight-test a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) demonstrator aircraft.
Blog: Design
Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a caterpillar-like soft robot that can move forward, backward, and dip under narrow spaces.
Quiz: Semiconductors & ICs
Test your knowledge about the facts, history, and individual elements of computer processors.
Blog: Design
A Caltech-developed new kind of smart bandage aims to treat lingering wounds and help those who have trouble recuperating.
Q&A: Electronics & Computers
Professor Patrick Mercier and his team at the University of California, San Diego, have developed an RFID smart tag that uses the signals generated by a smartphone to both read and power it.
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
A soccer-playing, full-sized humanoid robot — ARTEMIS — with first-of-its-kind technology.
Quiz: Electronics & Computers
Do you know what microgrids are and how they work? Find out with this quiz.
Blog: Materials
By avoiding hazardous chemicals, the work points down a path industry could follow to reduce its environmental footprint.
Blog: Energy
The oxygen-ion battery can be extremely durable, does not require rare elements, and thwarts fire hazards.
Blog: Photonics/Optics
Physicists achieved optical switching of a light signal at attosecond speeds to reach previously unattainable data transfer speeds.
Blog: AR/AI
When AI is used for making health decisions, hiring decisions, financial credit decisions, or automobile-driving decisions, riskiness is a big deal — some people are working to reduce the risks.
INSIDER: Communications
A self-navigating, cargo-carrying sailboat designed by a team of Rice University engineering students could be a sustaining link for Marines hunkered down on shore during war. The...
INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
The town of Linköping, Sweden, has a small fleet of autonomous electric buses that carry riders along a predetermined route. The bright vehicles, emblazoned with the tagline, “Ride...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
There is extensive research on how a fixed-position flap affects lift in the realm of fluid-structure interaction. However, taking the conversation in a new direction, researchers at...
Top Stories
Blog: Energy
Beyond Lithium: The Rise of Calcium-Ion Energy Storage
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Kitchen Tech Hack Aiming to Revolutionize 3D Printing
Blog: Design
A Shield for the Next Generation: Lithium Batteries Get a Major Upgrade
Blog: AR/AI
Trailblazing Innovators: Meet Rising Star Award Winner Sadiyah Sabah...
Quiz: Aerospace
How Much Do You Know About Jet Engine Components?
INSIDER: Motion Control
Webcasts
Webinars: Unmanned Systems
Driving Reliability: Simulation Driven EMI Techniques for Modern Vehicle...
Editorial Webinars: Defense
Smarter Aerospace Manufacturing & Design with Digital Twins and Agentic AI
Webinars: Materials
Superior Environmental Protection with Ultra-Thin Parylene and Multilayer...
Webinars: RF & Microwave Electronics
Where Time and Frequency Converge: Multi-Channel RF Analysis for Radar and...
Webinars: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The Over-Engineering Trap: Aligning Custom Equipment Specs with Operational...
Podcasts: Electronics & Computers
How AI Acceleration Strategies Are Changing Embedded Computing Architectures
