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INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A small, inexpensive, and highly accurate gyroscope, developed at the University of Michigan, navigates without GPS. The key to making the gyroscope is a nearly symmetrical mechanical resonator...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Rutgers University engineers have created a tabletop device that can draw blood or insert catheters to deliver fluids and drugs. The device can accurately pinpoint blood vessels, improving success...
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See how Prof. Olaf Diegel built a hands-free door opener.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
As autonomous cars collect data on passing pedestrians, cyclists, and license plates, what privacy measures are in place? A reader asks.
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Would You Use the Pedestrian Audio Wearable System (PAWS)?
Our “5Ws” article in the March issue of Tech Briefs highlights a wearable developed at Columbia University called “PAWS.” The Pedestrian Audio Wearable System detects and locates approaching cars. PAWS then warns the pedestrian in real-time by providing audio/visual feedback via the...
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
3D printing is being used to quickly create life-saving parts and prototypes like masks, shields, and ventilator valves.
Blog: Power
A reader asks, "What market drivers need to occur for electric vehicles to be considered an acceptable replacement for vehicles with internal combustion engines?"
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Massive manufacturing bots have evolved into something new — collaborative robots.
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Would You Use a CurveBoard?
MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate “breadboards” — flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping — directly onto physical products.
INSIDER: Imaging
Researchers at Purdue University have been working to develop new technologies to help stop the spread of foodborne illnesses, which kill 3,000 people a year, by detecting them more...
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Some molecules, including most of the ones in living organisms, have shapes that can exist in two different mirror-image versions. The right- and left-handed versions can sometimes have different...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Final Vision Inspection (FVI) SystemCyberOptics® Corporation (Minneapolis, MN) has launched the Multi-Reflection Suppression™ (MRS™)-enabled 3D MX3000 Final Vision Inspection (FVI) system for memory modules. The launch extends...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a way to retrofit the transmission electron...
Blog: Aerospace
NASA wants small businesses to help the safe operation of UAVs in airspace.
INSIDER: Energy
When electric vehicles end their life, the remaining storage capacity of the lithium battery is expected to be higher than 70%. After this, they can be reused for less demanding “second...
INSIDER: Energy
Materials called perovskites show strong potential for a new generation of solar cells, but they’ve had trouble gaining traction in a market dominated by silicon-based...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A new bendable supercapacitor made from graphene, which charges quickly and safely stores a record-high level of energy for use over a long period, has been developed and...
INSIDER: Energy
New research by engineers at MIT and elsewhere could lead to batteries that can pack more power per pound and last longer, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as...
Question of the Week: Aerospace
What Name Would You Give the Next Mars Rover?
In a live event from Lake Braddock Secondary School (LBSS) in Burke, Virginia on Thursday, NASA professionals announced that the Mars 2020 rover will be called “Perseverance.”
Blog: Aerospace
NASA’s big return to the Moon by 2024 will call for the support of small technologies – specifically, the miniature spacecraft known as CubeSats.
Blog: Software
The votes are in. Our readers selected top products in data acquisition, software, and ultrasonic sensing.
Blog: Aerospace
The new Mars Rover Name is Perseverance, thanks to a suggestion from Virginia 7th grader Alex Mather.
Question of the Week: Energy
Will We Ever Recharge Electric Batteries As Quickly As We Get Gas?
Stanford University researchers have developed a machine learning-based method that cuts battery testing times by 98 percent. The team says that their A.I. technique could lead to a future where an electric battery is recharged in the time it takes to stop at a gas station. Watch...
Events: Medical
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Products: Photonics/Optics
Perovskites
Goodfellow (Coraopolis, PA) recently announced a new range of perovskites, a group of materials that demonstrate great potential for optoelectronic applications. Perovskites have a unique and versatile crystal...
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
The NASA study is a first step in developing a model to deploy in future disasters.
Technology Leaders: Test & Measurement
CT vs. structured light scanning — See which option is best for you.
Technology Leaders: Imaging
Different line scan prism manufacturers might compare two possible curves in their advertising and argue that the steeper flanks should enable better color reproduction with greater selectivity.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Anand Gopalan, CEO of Velodyne Lidar, Inc., discusses lidar software for ADAS and autonomous vehicles
Top Stories
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Going for Gold in Winter Olympic Curling
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
INSIDER: Design
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Data Acquisition
Blog: Materials
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