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Blog: Aerospace
Although life has not been found on Mars just year, a researcher from NYU thinks there could be life...under it.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Positioning devices, vibration transmitters, brushless DC motors, and more.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Data storage boards, modular plugs, equipment enclosures, and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This approach could be used to cost-effectively make soft robots and wearable technologies.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
These are important traits in electronics and electrical systems including electric cars, industrial drills, and electric grids.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology can help robots walk up to 40 percent faster on uneven terrain such as pebbles and wood chips.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
New safety relay modules follow updated standards to give designers more options for a tailored electrical safety implementation.
Blog: Imaging
The Perseverance rover has an almost human-like way of keeping its lenses clean.
Blog: Aerospace
The Mars rover Perseverance has a helicopter. Will the rover have to carry it around?
Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Exploring Mars - July 2020
As NASA prepares this week to launch its latest robotic rover to the Red Planet, we are excited to present this commemorative publication chronicling – through historic images and video – six decades of Mars...Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA's Dry Goods Delivery System, a lung-heart sensor on a chip, and more.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications exist both on Mars and on Earth.
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Traditional robotic feet are made of rigid components. A team of engineers at UCSD turned to coffee grounds to make legged robots more flexible and able to walk on a variety of rough terrain.
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
In places of limited accessibility and harsh conditions, replacing failed transmissions is a challenging and tremendously costly task.
Articles: Motion Control
The right sensors can cut machine building costs, improve flexibility, and boost customer satisfaction.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Find the right pressure sensors for your sterilization applications.
Facility Focus: Energy
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
Articles: Imaging
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Ken Williford, Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist, to learn more about the science capabilities of Perseverance.
Articles: Imaging
Perseverance will have the ability to land in more challenging terrain than Curiosity, making more rugged sites eligible as safe landing candidates.
Q&A: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A robotic finger has a sense of touch that can be localized with high precision over a large, multi-curved surface.
Briefs: Communications
Electrical cables are used in services such as power delivery, automation signaling, and communications.
Briefs: Materials
The rainproof, stainproof technology turns clothing into self-powered remotes while turning away bacteria.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See how NASA engineer Mike Buttigieg is creating a device that will free up ventilators for patients with COVID-19
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A low-cost, low-complexity ventilator developed by NASA engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
Products: Imaging
The ADISRA SmartView 4.0 HMI allows builders to see what's going on in their machines.
Question of the Week: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Can Solar-Powered Desalination Solve Water-Scarcity Challenges?
“Seawater is a very abundant resource for clean water, but the problem is how to desalinate it,” MIT researcher Lenan Zhang told Tech Briefs in our April issue.
Q&A: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Lenan Zhang and his team at MIT developed a small, economical, highly efficient device to provide fresh drinking water using only the Sun for its energy input.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology cancels out the vibrations of a satellite by vibrating the solar panels in the opposite direction.
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