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Blog: Materials
Tech Briefs in 2019 celebrated historic NASA anniversaries, new ways to power electronics, and innovative hacks of our “smartest” technologies.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers developed a microrobot that measures a few micrometers across and resembles a paper bird made with origami. It flaps its wings or bends its neck and retracts its head via...
INSIDER: Materials
The challenge of building an energy future that preserves and improves the planet is a massive undertaking. Scientists and politicians have recognized the...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A highly sensitive rectifying element in the form of a nanowire backward diode can convert low-power 100 nanowatt microwaves into usable electricity. The newly developed...
INSIDER: Green Design & Manufacturing
A new concept for an aluminum battery has twice the energy density as previous versions, is made of abundant materials, and could lead to reduced production costs and environmental impact. The...
Question of the Week: Transportation
Will ‘Unbreakable Batteries’ Find a Place in Electronics and Vehicles?
Increasingly, lithium-ion batteries are supporting portable electronics, electric vehicles, and grid storage.
Blog: Materials
Parylene coatings are being used in the medical industry and even space. Our expert explains why.
News: Wearables
A unique new flexible and stretchable device, worn against the skin and capable of producing electrical energy by transforming the compounds present in sweat, has been developed and patented...
News: Electronics & Computers
A wireless, wearable monitor built with stretchable electronics could allow comfortable, long-term health monitoring of adults, babies, and small children without concern for skin...
Blog: Electronics & Computers
New ceramics expand on ways to more efficiently use heat radiation.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
At any moment in Delhi, India, a resident might start their car, releasing exhaust that floats into the atmosphere. In northwest India, a...
INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Rutgers engineers have embedded high performance electrical circuits inside 3D-printed plastics, which could lead to smaller and versatile drones and better-performing small...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Inspired by spiders, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), have developed a compact and efficient depth sensor that could be used onboard...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically thin semiconducting crystals that could one day enable more powerful and...
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Will Self-Assembling 'M-Blocks' Catch On?
A team at MIT created self-assembling robotic cubes that can climb and roll over each other into set formations.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
“Cobots” allow companies of almost any size to automate processes that were previously out of reach.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Sensing technology will help to transform manufacturing floors into the connected factories of the future.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A technology uses a combination of WiFi signals and accelerometer technology to track devices in near-real-time.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers have developed a self-contained wheel unit that combines a wheel and an electric motor.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The technology can be used in commercial motors, robotic systems, and hybrid and electric vehicles.
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The ESA has commissioned its industry partners to design a new docking system called the International Berthing and Docking Mechanism (IBDM).
Briefs: Motion Control
The algorithm speeds up the planning process that robots use to adjust their grip on objects.
Briefs: Motion Control
The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.
Application Briefs: Motion Control
Salty air the Dutch city of Harlingen causes exposed metal parts to corrode.
Special Reports: Transportation
ADAS/Connected Car - December 2019
Today's Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and connected cars are paving the way for tomorrow's automated vehicles. To help you keep pace with the latest technology developments, we present this...Briefs: Aerospace
This system uses fiber optic strain sensing to detect and locate micrometeoroid/orbital debris.
Products: Imaging
Adhesives, flame-retardant compounds, vision measurement, and more...
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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